Re: [META] The issue of the unwelcome CC (please email me if you receive a CC from me)

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Farina
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Jerry wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:26:07 -0500 > Christopher J. Walters articulated: > >> It was my understanding that this bug had been fixed in Thunderbird, >> but I may be mistaken.  I know that in a GNU/Linux user mailing list >> I have long been signed up

Re: A usability gap in fingerprint rendering and parsing

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Farina
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: > Is this necessary for a technical reason? I'm just thinking about the > scenario where transmits his human-readable fingerprint in a medium that > collapses repeated spaces (think e.g. HTML). If there's no security implication (it's hard for me

Re: A usability gap in fingerprint rendering and parsing

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Farina
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri,  6 Jan 2012 00:12, drfar...@acm.org said: > >> Should that become the default?  What's the use of nibbles that cannot > > No, --with-colons is not for humans.  OTOH, humans are not able to > properly read and compare 40 digits hex string

Re: A usability gap in fingerprint rendering and parsing

2012-01-05 Thread Daniel Farina
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Jerome Baum wrote: > On 2012-01-03 02:43, Daniel Farina wrote: >> Thoughts? > > --with-colons Should that become the default? What's the use of nibbles that cannot be parsed by --recipient? I also prefer to read the whitespace, but in that

A usability gap in fingerprint rendering and parsing

2012-01-02 Thread Daniel Farina
Hello list, I was recently trying to encrypt a payload using fingerprints in my keyring to most unambiguously identify a key, when I encountered the following confusion. After giving up trying to find resolution via search engine I played with it a bit more I got it to work, but the head-scratchi

Encrypting using gpgsm and self-signed certificates

2011-12-24 Thread Daniel Farina
Hello list, I've been integrating GPG into a backup utility, and while OpenPGP works as expected, I'm having some trouble with trying to also enable self-signed x509 certs via gpgsm as a mechanism for encryption. Unfortunately all I get back from gpgsm is "No Value". The output of a gpgsm invocat