Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-09-2015 a las 14:17, David Niklas escribió: > Hello, Hello, > Now, I'm a student (think penny less), and live in a rural area > 100mi from the nearest LUG and people out here are _very_ computer > illiterate Well, I live in the capital

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 8:08, Bob Henson escribió: ... >> It /is/ totally meaningless. And we should educate users that it >> is meaningless. > > Agreed. But a new user who has yet to be educated would baulk at > trusting a key signed by Genghis Khan o

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 5:33, Bob Henson escribió: ... > Authority key, say. But a signature of any person's key that you > have not met and positively verified is worse than useless as it > degrades the whole trust process. Someone who I had never > pre

Re: Seperate Session Key and Encrypted Data

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 7:26, Christian Loehle escribió: > I want to use gpg to encrypt a potentially large file to some > (cloud-like) storage provider, the recipients are not known at the > time of uploading. What I want to do is to send the encrypted

Re: GnuPG User ID expiry

2015-10-02 Thread Jens Lechtenboerger
Hi Daniel! On 2015-09-29, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Fri 2015-09-25 00:49:48 -0700, Jens Lechtenboerger wrote: > >> I tried to generate test keys with expired user IDs (under faked >> system time), but I failed, with gpg 1.4 as well as 2.1.8. > > with 2.1.8, i get an expiration prompt for th

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Guan Xin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > Sorry to just jump in here but I've been following the conversation > and this caught my eye. While checking the email address associated > with a key might not /always/ be useful (like in the case of IM, fax, > etc), it /can/ help provi

Re: AW: Seperate Session Key and Encrypted Data

2015-10-02 Thread Christian Loehle
Thanks for your reply(and all the others of course). Personally I'm going to use non-pgp AES probably, although I'm not quite content with that. As I said, this seems like a feature that would make sense, I might work on it myself if I find the time. -- Christian Loehle On 10/01/2015 07:29 PM, Da

Re: AW: Seperate Session Key and Encrypted Data

2015-10-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 19:29, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > So the only functionality GnuPG is missing to assemble the workflow > you're describing would be a new GnuPG command named something like > --generate-pkesk-with-session-key. If that command was available, the A more generalized version w