Re: Teaching GnuPG to noobs

2015-06-18 Thread Chuck Peters
Stephan Beck said: > Am 16.06.2015 um 15:50 schrieb A.T. Leibson: > > > Lastly, what's your favorite noob-friendly guide, and why? > > I think that the guide available at (1) > > (1) https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Potential instructors: please explain subkeys and how it might be best to

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-01 Thread Chuck Peters
Kristian Fiskerstrand said: > >> > >> You wouldn't need the keyservers to be involved in this at all. > >> Anyone could set up such a mail verification CA outside of the > >> keyserver network. How about storing keys in a more distributed manner, DNS, in addition to some other method of authen

Changing default digest algo

2013-11-03 Thread Chuck Peters
I generated some new keys in Sept and would like to convert the digest from SHA1 to SHA512. I added the following to gpg.conf: personal-digest-preferences SHA512 cert-digest-algo SHA512 default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed I chan

Best Practice, subkeys and subkey cross-certification.

2013-09-23 Thread Chuck Peters
I attended a small key signing party Saturday after generating a new key with multiple subkeys with the notion of having a email signing keys on less secure systems like my VPS (using mutt) and a separate subkey for each computer or device. https://wiki.debian.org/subkeys says "The really usef