Re: symmetric email encryption

2014-07-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Do 17.07.2014, 21:02:06 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: > > I think that would be a nice feature for recipients who don't have > > an > > asymmetric key (those 99%). > > But given the overwhelming majority of GnuPG users have an asymmetric > key, this is ... kind of pointless. You haven't understood

Re: symmetric email encryption

2014-07-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I think that would be a nice feature for recipients who don't have an > asymmetric key (those 99%). But given the overwhelming majority of GnuPG users have an asymmetric key, this is ... kind of pointless. > Is there any reason *not* to support symmetric-only encryption in a mail > client? B

symmetric email encryption

2014-07-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, is there any OpenPGP mail client which supports symmetric encryption? I think that would be a nice feature for recipients who don't have an asymmetric key (those 99%). Many new communication systems have a fallback option for symmetric encryption in case the preferred way is unavailable

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Do 17.07.2014, 23:39:53 schrieb MFPA: > > in short: use gpgsplit to split the key, then import > > one part, set passphrase A, export it (encrypted with > > A), delete it, then import the other part, set > > passphrase B. > > Do you actually need gpgsplit to achieve this? I thought you could >

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 17 July 2014 at 9:44:15 AM, in , flapflap wrote: > in short: use gpgsplit to split the key, then import > one part, set passphrase A, export it (encrypted with > A), delete it, then import the other part, set > passphrase B. Do yo

Status of ECDSA in GPGSM/SCDAEMON

2014-07-17 Thread Andreas Schwier
Sorry, pressed the send button too early. Hi list, we are working on an integration of the SmartCard-HSM in scdaemon. We have the code working for RSA, but have trouble getting it to work with 320 bit and SHA-256. Signature generation works fine, but during verification gpgsm claims "a 256 bit

Re: Different passwords for subkeys

2014-07-17 Thread flapflap
Phillip Susi: > I keep a subkey pair for daily use that I keep a copy of on my work > machine, and reissue each yea and the master key only at home. I > would like to protect the master key with a password that is different > from that used on the daily use subkey, but when I use --edit-key and >