Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 03-04-2017 a las 20:04, Will Senn escribió: ... > Actually, I appreciate all of the detail. I will start off with a > simple keypair that I am careful with. Based on my current > understanding, if my passphrase is known only to me, is > sufficient

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-04-2017 a las 20:23, Will Senn escribió: ... >> In short, the main key acts as a level of indirection, which >> separates your identity from your encryption/signing keys. > Sounds like what I was led to believe to be the case, but at the > end

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Teemu Likonen
Will Senn [2017-04-04 00:19:11-05] wrote: > On 4/3/17 11:48 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> What's your threat model? > > [...] I do not really know what I need vs what I think I need. In my > uneducated state, I think I want to be as secure as possible [...] Considering possible threats is useful or e

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 04/04/17 13:47, Will Senn wrote: > So I emailed them and waited a week with no response. I then went > looking for alternatives and found many sites that referred to that site > as their distributor. I bought mine from cryptoshop.com and was satisfied with the experience. A signature.asc De

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Will Senn
On 4/4/17 5:22 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Robert J. Hansen > wrote: >>> What do you mean by "will be better served by avoiding them"? What's the >>> reservation? >> Imagine we're in a restaurant and you ask me, "Should I order the >> pizza?" Well, beats heck

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I do not really know what I need vs what I think I need. Completely non-snarky: this is an important realization to make and we're happy to help with this. Getting this answered will go a long way towards answering your "should I get a smartcard?" question. > In my uneducated state, I think I

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Will Senn
Hi Jan, On 4/4/17 1:46 AM, Jan Koppe wrote: > Hello Will, > > somewhat off-topic, but.. > > On 04.04.2017 01:18, Will Senn wrote: > >> If this has been addressed recently, my apologies, I couldn't find a >> search interface for gnupg-users... > You can use a google query like this: > "site:https:/

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 04/04/17 11:22, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I will add that the "Are smartcards out of vogue?" question has > an loaded question taste to it. Depends whether by "smartcard" you mean the technology or the form factor. The underlying protocol is here for the long term - it's the same one banks use

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> What do you mean by "will be better served by avoiding them"? What's the >> reservation? > > Imagine we're in a restaurant and you ask me, "Should I order the > pizza?" Well, beats heck out of me. I don't know you from Adam, I > don't k

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Corey Sheldon
On 4/4/17 6:46 AM, Jan Koppe wrote: > Hello Will, > > somewhat off-topic, but.. > > On 04.04.2017 01:18, Will Senn wrote: > >> If this has been addressed recently, my apologies, I couldn't find a >> search interface for gnupg-users... > You can use a google query like this: > "site:https://lists.gn