Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Jason Antony
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2014-11-21 03:54, Shea Levy wrote: > Hmm, I’m having a hard time imagining how someone could get me to > divulge the passphrase if they couldn’t also get me to hand over > the key backups I own. Of course, my imagination is not the limit > here,

Re: Encryption on Mailing lists sensless?

2014-11-20 Thread Schlacta, Christ
On Nov 20, 2014 1:58 PM, "Ingo Klöcker" wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 November 2014 22:43:18 MFPA wrote: > KMail encrypts an individual copy for each BCC recipient. I thought > Thunderbird+Enigmail would also do this. > > Any mail client not doing this completely subverts BCC (unless --throw-keyids > o

Re: Encryption on Mailing lists sensless?

2014-11-20 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 18 November 2014 22:43:18 MFPA wrote: > On Tuesday 18 November 2014 at 6:15:57 PM, in > , Mirimir wrote: > > As long as messages were separately encrypted to each > > recipient, no third parties would be involved. > > For an email message with multiple recipients, I think most mail > cl

Re: Re: problems with pinentry-0.9.0 (Werner Koch)

2014-11-20 Thread Rex Kneisley
Gracious reply: >Install the pkg-config package: >apt-get install pkg-config >Shalom-Salam, >Werner Thank you! After installing pkg-config as suggested, Looks like I'm down to the wire: checking whether mlock is broken... no checking for byte typedef... no checki

Symmetrical encryption or ...

2014-11-20 Thread Dave Pawson
Requirement. Two machines (one Linux, one Windows). I want a secure file 'shared' between them, as a pwd-safe. Only I use the two machines, but need the file encrypted. Any alternatives to symmetrical encryption of a file? TiA, -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson

Re: gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits

2014-11-20 Thread Brian Minton
I put in a bug report: issue 1769 on http://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:12, br...@minton.name said: >> ECDSA/EDDSA subkeys. The encryption and signing seems to work, so >> it's mainly just an informational message: > > Actua

Re: gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits

2014-11-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:12, br...@minton.name said: > ECDSA/EDDSA subkeys. The encryption and signing seems to work, so > it's mainly just an informational message: Actually this revealed a real bug: The code to figure out the best matching hash algorithm for ECDSA was not anymore working. Fixed

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Jeremy Reeve
A keystroke logger? Jeremy On 20 November 2014 16:54, Shea Levy wrote: > Hmm, I’m having a hard time imagining how someone could get me to divulge > the passphrase if they couldn’t also get me to hand over the key backups I > own. Of course, my imagination is not the limit here, so is there so

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Hmm, I’m having a hard time imagining how someone could get me to divulge the passphrase if they couldn’t also get me to hand over the key backups I own. Of course, my imagination is not the limit here, so is there something I’m missing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Sage The people fooled

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread NdK
Il 20/11/2014 18:33, Dave English ha scritto: > Hint: do you always wear a hood over your head and the keyboard when entering > your passphrase? Could simply use different passphrases for regular use and backups... BYtE, Diego. ___ Gnupg-users mailin

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Dave English
Hint: do you always wear a hood over your head and the keyboard when entering your passphrase? ATB Dave English > On 20 Nov 2014, at 16:54, Shea Levy wrote: > > Hmm, I’m having a hard time imagining how someone could get me to divulge the > passphrase if they couldn’t also get me to hand over

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Shea Levy
Hmm, I’m having a hard time imagining how someone could get me to divulge the passphrase if they couldn’t also get me to hand over the key backups I own. Of course, my imagination is not the limit here, so is there something I’m missing? Thanks, Shea > On Nov 20, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Robert J. Ha

Re: gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits

2014-11-20 Thread Brian Minton
oops, I meant to say I have an ECDH and EDDSA subkey, but no ECDSA. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Brian Minton wrote: > I'm seeing an interesting message when encrypting and signing with my > ECDSA/EDDSA subkeys. The encryption and signing seems to work, so > it's mainly just an informationa

gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to be in SEC encoding multiple of 8 bits

2014-11-20 Thread Brian Minton
I'm seeing an interesting message when encrypting and signing with my ECDSA/EDDSA subkeys. The encryption and signing seems to work, so it's mainly just an informational message: bminton@bminton:~$ echo hi|gpg2 -u 0424DC19B678A1A9 -r 0424DC19B678A1A9 -a -e -s gpg: ECDSA public key is expected to

Re: Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
My private key is encrypted with a very strong passphrase (10 word diceware [1], not written down, 129 bits of entropy). Given that, is it safe to back it up on disks I don't control, such as a private S3 bucket or a VPS? My intuition says yes, but I've learned to never trust my intuition when it

Backup of encrypted private key on uncontrolled disks

2014-11-20 Thread Shea Levy
Hi all, My private key is encrypted with a very strong passphrase (10 word diceware [1], not written down, 129 bits of entropy). Given that, is it safe to back it up on disks I don't control, such as a private S3 bucket or a VPS? My intuition says yes, but I've learned to never trust my intuiti

Re: problems with pinentry-0.9.0

2014-11-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:40, re...@me.com said: > checking for pkg-config... no Install the pkg-config package: apt-get install pkg-config Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___ Gnupg-users mai

problems with pinentry-0.9.0

2014-11-20 Thread Rex Kneisley
Hello group, I'm sorry to keep turning to this group for help with things that may seem painfully obvious to all of you. I am attempting to install GnuPG modern 2.1.0 on a clean install of Debian 7.7.0 amd64 I installed the development tools using the Debian "add/remove software" applicati