Re: gpgkey2ssh

2010-10-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 10/21/2010 09:28 PM, Jameson Rollins wrote: > Hi, Aaron. You might be interested in some of the tools that come with > the Monkeysphere [0] package, which deals with a lot of OpenPGP for SSH > stuff. It comes with the utility openpgp2ssh, which translates OpenPGP > keys to SSH keys (and is wel

Re: gpgkey2ssh

2010-10-21 Thread Jameson Rollins
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:58:31 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > So, help? Hi, Aaron. You might be interested in some of the tools that come with the Monkeysphere [0] package, which deals with a lot of OpenPGP for SSH stuff. It comes with the utility openpgp2ssh, which translates OpenPGP keys to SSH

gpgkey2ssh

2010-10-21 Thread Aaron Toponce
First, there is _ZERO_ documentation for this binary. No manual, no info page, nothing under /usr/share/doc/, segfaults pasing "-h" or "--help". Short of digging through the source, this is unacceptable. Second, and probably as a result, I can't get this working for the life of me. Correct me if I

Re: Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID?

2010-10-21 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 22 October 2010 at 12:28:53 AM, in , David Shaw wrote: > On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, MFPA wrote: >> Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID? > Yes, but it's huge: 4,294,967,295 characters long. > That's the OpenPGP answer. I

Re: Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID?

2010-10-21 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, MFPA wrote: > Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID? Yes, but it's huge: 4,294,967,295 characters long. That's the OpenPGP answer. In practice, however, using GnuPG, the maximum is 2048 characters. David ___ Gnu

Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID?

2010-10-21 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Is there a maximum length for an OpenPGP UID? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQC

Security considerations: CAST-128

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I understand that there are *some* security considerations when using CAST-128 (CAST5, as used in GnuPG), but this is typical of many ciphers in use today. In particular, a paper[1] on the linear cryptanalysis of reduced round versions of CAST

Changing secret key encryption algorithms

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Cowsill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I was inspired by a thread on a friend's mishap with his secret key to look into the various ways that a GnuPG secret key can be encrypted prior to its storage on disk. On 20/10/2010 1:24 PM, Faramir wrote: > > Well, then the private key wa