Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Mark Rousell
On 10/06/2012 15:03, Sam Smith wrote: > I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was > talking about with that "finger" stuff. I studied his email and the > email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant. > >> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:28:04 +0100 >> From: ma

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread John Clizbe
da...@gbenet.com wrote: > Hello Sam, > > Most people are normal users of pgp - I suspect there are few secret > government agents - not that they are likely to say so :) > though some believe them to be everywhere. Secret agents may or may not be here. Actual operatives one doesn't know if the

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 06/10/2012 11:25 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Please consider using clear signatures instead of conventional > signatures. My apologies: you're sending it with Base64 encoding instead of as text/plain. With that correction my comment still applies: it's much harder for those viewing the list

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David -- Please consider using clear signatures instead of conventional signatures. If someone looks in the list archives they'll see a huge opaque blob of text they can't read. Likewise if someone tries to read your email on a system that doesn't

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread da...@gbenet.com
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/12 14:59, Sam Smith wrote: > > Okay. So please let me know if I understand correctly what I am supposed to > do (or what you guys are recommending be done) with key signing: > > I downloaded the GnuPG program and ran gpg --verify. I am told

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 06/10/2012 10:36 AM, Sam Smith wrote: > Mr. Koch, can you (or anyone else) recommend a book... Michael W. Lucas, "PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid," No Starch Press, 2006. http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781593270711-0 http://www.amazon.com/PGP-GPG-Email-Practical-Paranoid/dp/1593

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:36, smick...@hotmail.com said: > Mr. Koch, can you (or anyone else) recommend a book that is good for > novices like myself that covers GPG public keys and can help me learn > how to verify identity based on the chain of trust (self-signatures > and other signatures as you s

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:03, smick...@hotmail.com said: > I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was > talking about with that "finger" stuff. I studied his email and the > email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant. I am sorry about this. Most of the t

RE: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Sam Smith
Mr. Koch, can you (or anyone else) recommend a book that is good for novices like myself that covers GPG public keys and can help me learn how to verify identity based on the chain of trust (self-signatures and other signatures as you said in your email ) and covers other aspects of how GPG wor

RE: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Sam Smith
I have to agree with Peter. I mean, everyone has to trust someone/something at some point. I mean you trust Windows OS or your Linux Distro that it is not doing bad things. It is calling up all these APIs etc. Have your verified everything your OS does? Have your verified every signing key used

RE: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Sam Smith
I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was talking about with that "finger" stuff. I studied his email and the email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant. > Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:28:04 +0100 > From: markr-gn...@signal100.com > To: gnupg-users@gnu

RE: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Sam Smith
Okay. So please let me know if I understand correctly what I am supposed to do (or what you guys are recommending be done) with key signing: I downloaded the GnuPG program and ran gpg --verify. I am told the keyID that signed the program. I download that KeyID from a keyserver. I now ask people

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 11:28, markr-gn...@signal100.com said: > Do you know of any common modern browsers that have finger protocol > support built in? I wonder, how many people even have a finger client Indeed they must have dropped finger recently. I don't known when I checked the last time, but

Re: Gpg4win

2012-06-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 18:35, jw72...@verizon.net said: > When I installed Gpg4win, it came with GnuPG v2.0.17. I am not sure > when it will be updated to include v2.0.19, but I was wondering The new beta has 2.0.19. > whether there would be any problem from substituting the new version > of gpgv2.e

Re: can someone verify the gnupg Fingerprint for pubkey?

2012-06-10 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 09/06/12 22:55, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > I apologize for not understanding sooner There's no need for that :) Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente