Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Adam Sherman
On 2017-02-09 07:18 PM, Dr. Basil Becker wrote: > I'm not going to answer your question directly, but if you're unsure > about NFC's reliability, you could start with USB on-the-go [1]. This > way you could keep your already existing Yubikey 4, which also allows > stronger keys than the Yubikey NEO

Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Arthur Ulfeldt
So you weren't alike if you can do this (yes it works) rather you where asking if you should ;-) A hash of The message passes through near field magnetic induction which does emit radio waves. Then a response is sent back containing the description key for that message. Perhaps someone here knows

Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Dr. Basil Becker
Hello, On 09.02.2017 23:46, Adam Sherman wrote: > On 2017-02-09 11:15 AM, Adam Sherman wrote: >> Is it reasonable and appropriate to use a sub-key on an NFC-capable >> SmartCard, such as the YubiKey Neo[3], in conjunction with K9 >> Mail[4]? > > Re-reading my own post, I realize that I was not cl

Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Adam Sherman
On 2017-02-09 06:49 PM, Arthur Ulfeldt wrote: > A hash of The message passes through near field magnetic induction which > does emit radio waves. Then a response is sent back containing the > description key for that message. Perhaps someone here knows if a > secure channel is negotiated for this

Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Adam Sherman
On 2017-02-09 11:15 AM, Adam Sherman wrote: > Is it reasonable and appropriate to use a sub-key on an NFC-capable > SmartCard, such as the YubiKey Neo[3], in conjunction with K9 > Mail[4]? Re-reading my own post, I realize that I was not clear on my actual question. Let me rephrase: Is using an N

Re: Non-deterministic behavior using GnuPG and a smart-card

2017-02-09 Thread Dr. Basil Becker
Hello, On 09.02.2017 07:02, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Hello, > > [...] > This should be fixed. > I opened an issue for this topic: https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2953 Cheers, Basil signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users

Re: Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Arthur Ulfeldt
Yes it works great, I do this with k9+openkeychain on Android Den tor. 9. feb. 2017 09.27 skrev Adam Sherman : > Good Morning, > > As a very happy Yubikey 4[2] user, where my latop does not contain any > secret keys, I would now like to enjoy secure email on my smart phone > and tablet(s). Enter

Is NFC Appropriate?

2017-02-09 Thread Adam Sherman
Good Morning, As a very happy Yubikey 4[2] user, where my latop does not contain any secret keys, I would now like to enjoy secure email on my smart phone and tablet(s). Enter an NFC-capable SmartCard. I have nowhere near the depth of understanding required to evaluate this. Is it reasonable and

Re: Non-deterministic behavior using GnuPG and a smart-card

2017-02-09 Thread Dr. Basil Becker
Hi Peter et al. Am 9. Februar 2017 11:08:12 MEZ schrieb Peter Lebbing : >Hello, > I think it's interesting you encrypt >each and every mail you receive. That exercises all components a lot, >it >might lead to some useful insights on how things might be improved. In >fact, we just encountered such

Re: Non-deterministic behavior using GnuPG and a smart-card

2017-02-09 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hello, BTW, welcome to the list, Basil! I think it's interesting you encrypt each and every mail you receive. That exercises all components a lot, it might lead to some useful insights on how things might be improved. In fact, we just encountered such an insight I think! On 09/02/17 07:02, NIIBE

RE: GnuPG to create CSR

2017-02-09 Thread Ali Hassan Hamed Al Ajmi (eChannels)
I got the issue. Firewall was blocking the "dirmngr" from communicating with CA to validate x.509 certificates. I have solved that by disabling it. However, I am trying to use gpgsm from command line to do encryption/decryption & signing/verifying. I stuck with how to pass the passphrase in comm

Re: content of private-keys-v1.d

2017-02-09 Thread Marko Bauhardt
Hi, > > gnupg/agent/keyformat.txt you mean here http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=blob_plain;f=agent/keyformat.txt ? The part i’m interested in should be this right? {quote} ** Shad