Problem with the agent, gpg2

2009-11-14 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 November 14th 2009 for gnupg-users@gnupg.org subject "Problem with the agent, gpg2" Hi, I sucefulle compiled and installed GNU PG 2.0.12 but when i do some operation than requires a password i get a message like the following. Someone can tellme how

Re: Key practice

2009-11-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Also -- Keep in mind that I am not criticizing that weblog entry. I am only saying, "don't believe the hype." Much of what it says is accurate: it is a good idea to migrate towards better digest algorithms. Just don't believe anyone who tells you that DSA-1024 is insecure: it isn't. That said,

Re: Key practice

2009-11-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Alexander Russell wrote: > Essentially what I read was that the default 1024-bit DSA key isn't > strong enough, due to some flaw in SHA-1 which is the hash used for that > size of DSA (that's as much detail as I absorbed I'm afraid) Don't believe the hype. I don't like DSA-1024, for a lot o

Re: Key practice

2009-11-14 Thread David Alexander Russell
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > DSA is not a Bad Thing. Whoever it was who told you this did you a > disservice. If you'd like to tell us what you've heard about DSA, we > would be happy to correct the misinformation you were given. > > My suggestion is to "gpg --gen-key". At each step of the way, if

Re: Key practice

2009-11-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
David Alexander Russell wrote: > However I don't know what the 'best practice' is with regards to > keypairs and so on. GnuPG best practices, in a single sentence: "Unless you know what you're doing and why, stick with the defaults." This one sentence is useful for about 95% of new users' questi

Re: Trust reference

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/14/2009 01:45 PM, Susan Stewart wrote: > I'm filing a bug for my IM client (Gajim) because it currently only > allows sending of encrypted and/or signed presence or messages to > contacts whose keys I trust ultimately (trust level 5). The > documentation at http://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.htm

Key practice

2009-11-14 Thread David Alexander Russell
I've just bought a netbook with Ubuntu preinstalled, and since integrating with GnuPG is much easier than it is on Windows I thought it would be a good idea to start using it properly. However I don't know what the 'best practice' is with regards to keypairs and so on. I've read in a couple of plac

Trust reference

2009-11-14 Thread Susan Stewart
Greetings, I'm filing a bug for my IM client (Gajim) because it currently only allows sending of encrypted and/or signed presence or messages to contacts whose keys I trust ultimately (trust level 5). The documentation at http://gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#AEN346 appears out of date, as it does

Re: Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-14 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi David Vedaal and everyone This is something even I have thought: this seems to be a sure way to prevent such computing from being able to 'guess' the password. Why is then, parallel computing being haled as the antidote to privacy? Regards Hardeep Singh http://blog.Hardeep.name Sent from Delhi