Libcrypt examples?

2014-10-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Greetings, I have a program that will frequently need to store modest-size chunks of of data on disk, perhaps 1-4kB per chunk. The data is sensitive, but not ultra top secret. I would like to make a reasonable effort to keep it from prying eyes. After being stored, the data will later on need

Re: Renewal of revocation certificate required after adding a new identity?

2014-10-13 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 13 October 2014 at 5:40:06 PM, in , Peter Lebbing wrote: > However, "public key" is ill-defined without context. > It can also refer to the whole thing with UID's and > signatures and so on, which is not what I mean in this > contex

Re: Renewal of revocation certificate required after adding a new identity?

2014-10-13 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:33:10 +0200 Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 13/10/14 18:17, Dr. Peter Voigt wrote: > > I suppose the revocation certificate being a kind of replacement of > > my public key. As it is bound to the fingerprint of a key pair it > > can mark the key pair revoked as a whole. I suppose

Re: Renewal of revocation certificate required after adding a new identity?

2014-10-13 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 13/10/14 18:33, Peter Lebbing wrote: > PS: You could nitpick about "bound to the fingerprint", I think it > should be "bound to the public key itself". But it makes no real > difference, I'm just being fussy. In fact, I think it is more informative to think of it being bound to the fingerprint,

Re: Renewal of revocation certificate required after adding a new identity?

2014-10-13 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 13/10/14 18:17, Dr. Peter Voigt wrote: > I suppose the revocation certificate being a kind of replacement of my > public key. As it is bound to the fingerprint of a key pair it can mark > the key pair revoked as a whole. I suppose such a key can never be > activated again. This is somewhat oppos

Re: Renewal of revocation certificate required after adding a new identity?

2014-10-13 Thread Dr. Peter Voigt
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 00:35:20 +0200 Hauke Laging wrote: > Am So 12.10.2014, 23:35:16 schrieb Dr. Peter Voigt: > > Can I still use my existing revocation certificate with my key pair > > Yes. > > Thanks to all confirming my assumption. > > I am supposing the revocation certificate just refers to