Re: SMIME vs PGP

2008-02-06 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, > S/MIME itself is not used outside of email apps, however the certificates > (keys), sometimes referred to as X.509 certificates, S/MIME uses are able > to be used by other apps, eg for digital signatures in applications such as > Open Office, OpenOffice uses XML-DSig, not S/Mime. > and A

Re: SMIME vs PGP

2008-02-06 Thread John Clizbe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not a encryption expert, and need some help from the GnuPG user group. > > We have a new software product that has the capability of encrypting > documents using SMIME. How common is SMIME and used outside of email > clients? Is it compatible with the OpenPGP stan

Re: SMIME vs PGP

2008-02-06 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:28:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not a encryption expert, and need some help from the GnuPG user group. That's why we are here. > We have a new software product that has the capability of encrypting > documents using SMIME. How common is SMIME and used o

Re: SMIME vs PGP

2008-02-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not a encryption expert, and need some help from the GnuPG user group. While you can probably get some good pointers here, if you're looking for an answer you can rely on you will either need to do a fair bit of homework or else contract with an outside information

SMIME vs PGP

2008-02-06 Thread SeidlS
I am not a encryption expert, and need some help from the GnuPG user group. We have a new software product that has the capability of encrypting documents using SMIME. How common is SMIME and used outside of email clients? Is it compatible with the OpenPGP standard, and thus GnuPG? Is there a

Re: Safe decryption with GnuPG?

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Revilak
I have a file that I encrypted for myself and I want to read some information from it. The file is a text file and I need to read several lines of it. The following requirements must be met: I was going to suggest gpg --decrypt file.gpg | grep "interesting stuff" | banner | less >/dev/null

Re: Safe decryption with GnuPG?

2008-02-06 Thread Steve Revilak
I have a file that I encrypted for myself and I want to read some information from it. The file is a text file and I need to read several lines of it. The following requirements must be met: I was going to suggest gpg --decrypt file.gpg | grep "interesting stuff" | banner | less >/dev/null

Re: Safe decryption with GnuPG?

2008-02-06 Thread Philipp Gühring
Hi, > 1. > The decrypted information must not make it to any persistent medium > (I understand gpg '-d' already guarantees it > as long as it manages the decrypted text, > but what happens after it leaves gpg?) Use a full-disc encryption system for all your persistent media. > 2. > The decrypte