removing a misplaced comment in UID

2007-11-06 Thread Robert D.
I am sure I goofed. I am unsure how to correct it now that I sent my keys to the servers. When I made the revised keys, I put in /name/ and /comment/ and /email addy/ the *comment* part, I should have ignored. However I was thinking of the line seen often under "Version" a /note/ or /comment/ but

Re: removing a misplaced comment in UID

2007-11-06 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:48:32PM -0500, Robert D. wrote: > I am sure I goofed. I am unsure how to correct it now that I sent my > keys to the servers. > > When I made the revised keys, I put in /name/ and /comment/ and /email addy/ > > the *comment* part, I should have ignored. However I was th

Re: PGP encryption: block or stream cipher?

2007-11-06 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:20:31PM +0100, Sven Radde wrote: > Hi! > > Jim Cook schrieb: > > Does anyone know which type of cipher is used? > > GnuPG uses a number of block ciphers in a variant of CFB mode. > See RFC 4880, section 13.9 for more details on the mode of operation. > > btw, can someo

Re: Gen Key command done correctly

2007-11-06 Thread Ladislav Hagara
>> You must run "gpg --edit-key" and then ... >> > > Next question ... > > Sub-key generated. > > Do I still encrypt to the original public key? Nobody can encrypts files for you if your public key doesn't contain encrypt subkey. > And thus, is the sub-key > used automatically? .. I ask be

Re: New OpenPGP standard published

2007-11-06 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:42:33PM +0100, Dirk Traulsen wrote: > Am 2 Nov 2007 um 11:52 hat David Shaw geschrieben: > > The new OpenPGP standard has been published. > > Congratulations for the new RFC! > > But, since 2004, I report regularly at least once a year that the > example for the Radi

Re: PGP encryption: block or stream cipher?

2007-11-06 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Jim Cook schrieb: > Does anyone know which type of cipher is used? GnuPG uses a number of block ciphers in a variant of CFB mode. See RFC 4880, section 13.9 for more details on the mode of operation. btw, can someone explain to me what the design rationale for that "variant" is? I did not fi

Re: New OpenPGP standard published

2007-11-06 Thread Dirk Traulsen
Am 2 Nov 2007 um 11:52 hat David Shaw geschrieben: > The new OpenPGP standard has been published. Congratulations for the new RFC! But, since 2004, I report regularly at least once a year that the example for the Radix-64-Encoding in '6.5. Examples of Radix-64' on page 59 in the rfc is wrong.

Re: PGP encryption: block or stream cipher?

2007-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Jim Cook wrote: > Does anyone know which type of cipher is used? No. Well, block ciphers, but beyond that nobody can tell you very much. GnuPG supports a large number of block ciphers--probably too many. Which cipher is used for a particular message depends on both your preferences and your reci

PGP encryption: block or stream cipher?

2007-11-06 Thread Jim Cook
Does anyone know which type of cipher is used? Thanks, Jim ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: New OpenPGP standard published

2007-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > You're with us on Tuesday? http://tinyurl.com/2a3wga Sure. [1] BTW, I do not like this centralized URL surveilance system to go to https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Endspurt/Duesseldorf. Shalom-Salam, Werner [1] Germany is about

Re: UID management

2007-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> See GPA for an implementarions of this. > > How likely will it be that such an implementation will break with the next > version? It doesn´t sounds like a stable, robust and secure way to me. It won't break as long as you follow the main guid