RE: Setpref is not working or is it a bug or something?

2014-11-25 Thread gnupgpack
Hello, beware of compatibility issues... Older versions of Debian (< sarge) don't support SHA512, AFAIK. Many Smartcards are limited to key size <= 3072 bit, AFAIK. RSA signatures are larger than DSA signatures, even if same bit size. So, what are the most useful cross-over compatibility settings

Re: Encryption on Mailing lists sensless?

2014-11-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 22 November 2014 at 9:47:09 PM, in , MFPA wrote: > I don't know how Thunderbird+Enigmail handles this. Having asked the question on PGPNET, I am told that Thunderbird+Enigmail warns that users of some PGP Corp. products won't be a

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:42, bernh...@intevation.de said: > Oh, what about the idea to just ship a MIME parser with GnuPG. >;) tools/gpgparsemail is such a thing. It translates a MIME structure in something easier to process with standard Unix utilities. Mainly a debugging tool but the code serve

Re: Setpref is not working or is it a bug or something?

2014-11-25 Thread Robin Mathew Rajan
No bro. You got me wrong. :( I referred these two manuals before I made the change in gpg.conf. 1) https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Esoteric-Options.html "--default-preference-list string Set the list of default preferences to string. This preference list is used for ne

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2014-11-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
In some spare minutes while waiting for an airplane to arrive and my vacation to begin, I did a little more work on the key backup and migration tool that I mentioned on-list a while ago. It's still fairly simple, but there's a good side to simplicity: that also makes it hard to screw up. Major

Re: Setpref is not working or is it a bug or something?

2014-11-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Why this happening and what is the solution to it? The preferences list in gpg.conf are your preferences for what you use for the mail you compose to others; the preferences list on your key are your preferences for what you'd like other people to use for the mail they compose to you. They

Re: Beta for 2.1.1 available

2014-11-25 Thread Hugo Hinterberger
Hello Werner, On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:24:28 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: Bug reports please to the gnupg-users. When I try to open the Card Manager in GPA the program freezes. according to Process Manager there is something (not much, almost nothing) going on, but the UI does not respond any

[Announce] [security fix] Libksba 1.3.2 for GnuPG released

2014-11-25 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! I am pleased to announce version 1.3.2 of Libksba. This is a *security fix* release and all users of Libksba should update to this version. Note that GnuPG 2.x makes use of Libksba and thus all user of GnuPG 2.x need to install this new version of libksba and at least restart the dirmngr

Setpref is not working or is it a bug or something?

2014-11-25 Thread Robin Mathew Rajan
Hi all, I edited gpg.conf and set the parameters as like this: default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 CAMELLIA256 TWOFISH AES192 CAMELLIA192 CAMELLIA128 AES CAST5 IDEA BZIP2 ZLIB ZIP personal-cipher-preferences AES256 CAMELLIA256 TWOFISH personal-digest-preferences SHA512 per

Re: Beta for 2.1.1 available

2014-11-25 Thread Hugo Hinterberger
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:57:34 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 11/25/2014 10:50 AM, Hugo Hinterberger wrote: Hi Kristian, On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:40:22 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: For 2.1 you need the following in dirmngr.conf: hkp-cacert /path/to/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem

Re: Beta for 2.1.1 available

2014-11-25 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/25/2014 10:50 AM, Hugo Hinterberger wrote: > Hi Kristian, > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:40:22 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand > wrote: > >> For 2.1 you need the following in dirmngr.conf: hkp-cacert >> /path/to/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem >> ...

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/25/2014 03:42 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote: > On Monday 24 November 2014 at 10:25:43, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: >> It is tempting to blame the Python libraries, but the fact >> is that they do generate valid MIME - after swearing at Python for >> months, it dawned on me that it's probably

Re: Beta for 2.1.1 available

2014-11-25 Thread Hugo Hinterberger
Hi Kristian, On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 21:40:22 +0100, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: For 2.1 you need the following in dirmngr.conf: hkp-cacert /path/to/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem instead of keyserver-options ca-cert-file="C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/gnupg/sks-keyservers.netCA.crt" OK, so: sks-keys

gpg.conf: settings for security and compatibility

2014-11-25 Thread gnupgpack
Hello to all, my newbie post... I am struggling with gpg.conf for GnuPG-Pack-14.11.x (gpg 1.4.18). Dealing with encryption should be secure, cross-mailer interoperability and compatibility should be maximized between PGP/GnuPG/GPG/OpenPG and different os (Win/Mac/Linux). There are some known has

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Bjarni, On Monday 24 November 2014 at 10:25:43, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: > Bernhard Reiter wrote: > And thank you for the friendly reply. :-) you are welcome! I know that some people sound a little but grumpy, but this mostly is the case, because they feel like they are reiterating well