Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/29/2013 11:28 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: | First, whose advice? The advice of the people who actually write Enigmail. All of your irrelevant stuff aside, you still haven't explained yourself. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/29/2013 07:27 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/29/2013 12:09 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: | On 05/29/2013 > 06:12 AM, edgard devaux wrote: |> hello using Gnupg with linux > debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a |> key pair. my e-mail client > asks m

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:18:57PM +, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > to use email no longer use it. Unless a way to get rid of the > spam can be devised only a few stalwarts that MUST use email > will use it. But I dumped Gnome 3 entirely after looking at > OpenSuSE 12.3 with Gnome as the last s

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Andy Ruddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > On 05/29/2013 06:12 AM, edgard devaux wrote: >> hello using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a >> key pair. my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to >> sign , and an other certificat for the key.

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/29/2013 12:09 PM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: | On 05/29/2013 06:12 AM, edgard devaux wrote: |> hello using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a |> key pair. my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to |> sign , and an ot

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 05/29/2013 06:12 AM, edgard devaux wrote: > hello > using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a key pair. > my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to sign , and an > other certificat for the key. > How can i get this certificat for keyring , i don't find where . > e

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 5/29/2013 8:11 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: >> They're based in Israel, not the US. > > Wether that's better, worse or just the same is another question. Indeed. > But they do have US offices (they list one in New York) so they're > subject to the Patriot Act. Do they? My understanding is that it

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Johan Wevers
On 29-05-2013 19:43, Pete Stephenson wrote: > That's odd. What phone do you have? Nokia E72. One of their last Symbian models. > Their free keys are only valid for one year, but paid users can get keys > that are valid for two years. That's not uncommon for many CAs. But hardly much better. My

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 5/29/2013 7:28 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: > It seems not to be recognised by my phone though so there is no > advantage there over a selfsigned key. That's odd. What phone do you have? They're certainly not in every device, but their root is in iOS and Android devices, as well as pretty much all t

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/29/2013 01:28 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: [re: startssl] > Further they deliver the private key to you, so they have access to it. is this really the case? There is no way to supply them with a certreq without the secret key material? I would find that really surprising, and it should be bet

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Johan Wevers
On 29-05-2013 6:42, Doug Barton wrote: > Furthermore, there is no reason to fool around with self-signed certs > nowadays. Just trot over to https://www.startssl.com/ and get your free > cert signed by a recognized CA. It seems not to be recognised by my phone though so there is no advantage ther

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/29/2013 02:12 AM, edgard devaux wrote: > using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a key pair. > my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to sign , and an > other certificat for the key. what e-mail client? what version? does the e-mail client support OpenPGP nati

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:18:57PM +, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > On 05/28/2013 04:17 PM, Forlasanto wrote: > > The fact remains that email is "the house that Jack built." The wall > > plugs are upside down, the wiring is sketchy at best, the plumbing is > > crazy and doesn't function correctly

Re: Relevance of e-mail (was [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?)

2013-05-29 Thread Mark H. Wood
Ha, that reminds me, when I submit artifacts to Maven Central (a public code repository) I'm required to OpenPGP sign them. Maven has a very nice plugin which handles this automatically. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Machines should not be friendly. Machines should b

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Jan Eden
Sounds like your MUA supports S/MIME, you need a X.509 cert instead of a PGP keypair. Kind regards, Jan On 29.05.2013, at 08:12, edgard devaux wrote: > hello > using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a key pair. > my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to sign , an

Re: certificat for a key pair

2013-05-29 Thread Jan Eden
Sounds like your MUA supports S/MIME, you need a X.509 cert instead of a PGP keypair. Kind regards, Jan On 29.05.2013, at 08:12, edgard devaux wrote: > hello > using Gnupg with linux debian 7.0 and gnome; i created a key pair. > my e-mail client asks me a certificat for personal to sign , an