Re: A few newbie questions, I'am doing this right?

2012-12-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 18 December 2012 at 12:06:07 AM, in , Hauke Laging wrote: > Enforcing a reduction of > security is in a security context strange at best. That is what I meant by observing that convenience is often the opposite of security. It is c

Re: A few newbie questions, I'am doing this right?

2012-12-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Mo 17.12.2012, 23:37:33 schrieb MFPA: > > Once unlocked the > > OpenPGP card does as many decryptions as you want. I do > > not see any reason for that. > > Convenience. (Which is often the opposite of security.) No. Allowing(!) you to do so would be convinience. Even making this the default m

Re: A few newbie questions, I'am doing this right?

2012-12-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Sunday 16 December 2012 at 5:03:42 AM, in , Hauke Laging wrote: > With a compromised mainkey it > shouldn't be a problem to create a certificate with a > modified capability set anyway. Yes, I didn't think that through properly. MFPA: >>

Re: Web frontend

2012-12-17 Thread Branko Majic
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:46:33 +0100 klaus wrote: > Hi > > I am looking for at system to handle signing and verifying documents > (not mail) on a document repository on a webserver. I imaging a > system who should be able to show the document, and tell who and when > it was signed by. It should a

Web frontend

2012-12-17 Thread klaus
Hi I am looking for at system to handle signing and verifying documents (not mail) on a document repository on a webserver. I imaging a system who should be able to show the document, and tell who and when it was signed by. It should also enable the user to sign the document by uploading a se

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread gnupg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 17/12/12 16:04, Johan Wevers wrote: >> I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet >> moderately secure, to send over SMS, due to the shorter key >> sizes? > > There is an open source Java application that implements ECC pu

Re: Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread Johan Wevers
On 17-12-2012 3:14, Thomas Demers wrote: > I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet > moderately secure, to send over SMS, due to the shorter key sizes? There is an open source Java application that implements ECC public key encryption with SMS: http://cryptosms.org/ (don'

Elliptic curves in gnupg status?(ECC support)

2012-12-17 Thread Thomas Demers
Hey, I found the discussion in this newsgroup linked to below. It was last posted to in 2010. Looked like ECC support was coming, but as far as I can tell GPG doesn't support ECC yet. Is it on it's way? I was just thinking maybe the messages could be short enough yet moderately secure, to sen