Re: --trusted-key

2011-12-28 Thread Jerome Baum
On 2011-12-29 03:45, John A. Wallace wrote: > I have a couple of questions about this idea. First, why would you not have > assigned ultimate trust to the public key ID 0x215236DA when you created it > and had your secret key available to do so? I mean, why the delay; what > value to you is your

Re: --trusted-key

2011-12-28 Thread John A. Wallace
> -- > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:25:33 +0100 > From: Jerome Baum > To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org > Subject: Re: --trusted-key > Message-ID: <4efa7e1d.8080...@jeromebaum.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 2011-12-28 03:08, John A. Wallac

Re: Short ID Collision

2011-12-28 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:57:40 -0500 David Shaw articulated: > On Dec 28, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Jerry wrote: > > > Did anyone read about this reported problem with GnuPG and short > > keys? I found this on SlashDot this morning: > > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/0044242/gnupg-short-id-col

Re: Short ID Collision

2011-12-28 Thread David Shaw
On Dec 28, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Jerry wrote: > Did anyone read about this reported problem with GnuPG and short keys? > I found this on SlashDot this morning: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/0044242/gnupg-short-id-collision-has-occurred?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email The proper ti

Re: maximum passphrase for symmetric encryption ?

2011-12-28 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:32:44AM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote: > On 2011-12-28 00:27, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote: > >> I can't tell for gpg specifically but it's not so much about > >> "characters". It's about entropy. Natural language is redu

Re: Short ID Collision

2011-12-28 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 12/28/11 6:13 AM, Jerry wrote: > Did anyone read about this reported problem with GnuPG and short > keys? There is no problem. We've known for quite a long time that short key ID collisions are possible: that's why you can't rely on a short key ID as a fingerprint. There's room for some healt

Short ID Collision

2011-12-28 Thread Jerry
Did anyone read about this reported problem with GnuPG and short keys? I found this on SlashDot this morning: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/27/0044242/gnupg-short-id-collision-has-occurred?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies