Re: Secret key Questions regarding expiration and backing up

2016-10-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2016-10-14 19:16:45 -0400, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > my understanding is that a copy of some public key information (such > as expiry dates) is kept in the corresponding secret key store, and > this will be updated when the public key is edited. This is exactly correct. see: https://tools

Re: Secret key Questions regarding expiration and backing up

2016-10-14 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 14 Oct 2016, at 23:49, g...@noffin.com wrote: > So for clarification then: > > If there are no expiry dates on secret keys, what does this output mean then? > > #gpg --list-secret-keys > > > sec 2048R/ 2014-10-30 [expires: 2017-10-31] > The expiry date shown here is just a copy

Re: Secret key Questions regarding expiration and backing up

2016-10-14 Thread gpg
> On 14 Oct 2016, at 19:11, g...@noffin.com wrote: >> >> Hi there - pretty new with GPG, but have been getting going with it >> without much issue. I'm just curious about a few best practices and so >> on. >> >> 1) Should you set an expiration on your secret key? Or do most people >> just >> secure

Re: Secret key Questions regarding expiration and backing up

2016-10-14 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 14 Oct 2016, at 19:11, g...@noffin.com wrote: > > Hi there - pretty new with GPG, but have been getting going with it > without much issue. I'm just curious about a few best practices and so on. > > 1) Should you set an expiration on your secret key? Or do most people just > secure it appropri

Secret key Questions regarding expiration and backing up

2016-10-14 Thread gpg
Hi there - pretty new with GPG, but have been getting going with it without much issue. I'm just curious about a few best practices and so on. 1) Should you set an expiration on your secret key? Or do most people just secure it appropriately (with no expiration)? 2) If you do have the secret key

Re: unable to decrypt a mail coming from apple mail

2016-10-14 Thread ng0
Stephan Beck writes: > Hi, > > ng0: >> Hi, >> >> I've just got an email where the X-Mailer is Apple Mail. It adds some >> bits and pieces, is a 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding and I fail to >> decrypt it with gpg --decrypt (applied to the email as a file and also >> when applied to the BEGIN/END

mentors needed for the PGP Clean Room project in Outreachy/GSoC

2016-10-14 Thread Daniel Pocock
Hi all, I've advertised[1] the PGP Clean Room in the current round of Outreachy and it will probably be promoted in GSoC 2017 too. We already have a couple of applicants interested in working on it, their details are in the pki-clean-room list archive[2] Would anybody from the GnuPG community

Re: unable to decrypt a mail coming from apple mail

2016-10-14 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, ng0: > Hi, > > I've just got an email where the X-Mailer is Apple Mail. It adds some > bits and pieces, is a 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding and I fail to > decrypt it with gpg --decrypt (applied to the email as a file and also > when applied to the BEGIN/END PGP block). > The key is imported,