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: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-09-2015 a las 14:17, David Niklas escribió: > Hello, Hello, > Now, I'm a student (think penny less), and live in a rural area > 100mi from the nearest LUG and people out here are _very_ computer > illiterate Well, I live in the capital

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 8:08, Bob Henson escribió: ... >> It /is/ totally meaningless. And we should educate users that it >> is meaningless. > > Agreed. But a new user who has yet to be educated would baulk at > trusting a key signed by Genghis Khan o

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 5:33, Bob Henson escribió: ... > Authority key, say. But a signature of any person's key that you > have not met and positively verified is worse than useless as it > degrades the whole trust process. Someone who I had never > pre

Re: Seperate Session Key and Encrypted Data

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 7:26, Christian Loehle escribió: > I want to use gpg to encrypt a potentially large file to some > (cloud-like) storage provider, the recipients are not known at the > time of uploading. What I want to do is to send the encrypted

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-09-03 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 03-09-2015 a las 19:46, Robert J. Hansen escribió: >> IMHO, it would be desirable that the current version can still >> open old data, even if it refuses to encrypt that way. But maybe >> keeping the decrypt old data capability has some inconvenie

Re: FAQ: drop mention of 1.4?

2015-09-03 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 28-08-2015 a las 4:37, Werner Koch escribió: ... > Some of these old time users may not follow the news thus may be > baffled when they figure that gpg is not able to decrypt their old > data. Thus a short note that a GPG 1 version is maintaine

Re: Teaching GnuPG to noobs

2015-06-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 17-06-2015 a las 11:15, Robert J. Hansen escribió: ... > The most common one I've found is not understanding the material as > well as they think. This tends to come through most in the > metaphors an instructor uses. For instance, I frequently

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-02-2015 a las 16:00, MFPA escibió: > Hi > > > On Thursday 5 February 2015 at 9:38:29 AM, in > , Peter Lebbing wrote: > > >> Oh, by the way: > >>> But will a smartcard solve the problem that the host computer >>> might be infected with mal

Re: Crypto device where I need to confirm every operation?

2015-01-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 23-01-2015 a las 0:29, Robert J. Hansen escibió: >>> Smartcards exist to keep private keys safe(r) from being >>> stolen. They do a pretty good job of that. But when we expect >>> smartcards to be able to somehow make a compromised environment >>

Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-01-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Well, some months ago I wanted to take a look at existing smartcards and/or readers that hopefully support both OpenPGP and x503 certificates, but my Google-Fo failed me, I couldn't figure out where to buy something that works on Windows

Re: Crypto device where I need to confirm every operation?

2015-01-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-01-2015 a las 20:43, Robert J. Hansen escibió: > Smartcards exist to keep private keys safe(r) from being stolen. > They do a pretty good job of that. But when we expect smartcards > to be able to somehow make a compromised environment safe t

Re: different passwords for subkeys of the same masterkey

2015-01-21 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, El 21-01-2015 a las 7:58, s7r escribió: > Thank you very much for your reply. ... > I have the public key of John Doe . He has > more UserIDs associated with the same masterkey, as follows: John > Doe John Smith Bob > Jones Primary UserI

Re: Keysigning

2014-12-03 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-12-2014 a las 7:53, Robin Mathew Rajan escibió: > Hello David, :) > > I already uploaded my public key to a public key server some months > ago. But there's no local Linux users group where I live! I sent > emails to some people listed at bigl

Re: howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-15 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-07-2014 19:25, eMyListsDDg escribió: > > i found my error and the priv key. i had created this pair on a > linux vm some time ago and had forgotten that. back then when i > exported it and imported into a win machine something didn't quite > t

Re: howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-15 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-07-2014 0:45, eMyListsDDg escribió: ... > well i managed to create a pub key without a priv key. that is, it > only has a pub part. thats what gpa key manager is telling me. That's not possible, since the public key is based on the secret ke

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-07 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 04-06-2014 4:32, Werner Koch escribió: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:43, ds...@jabberwocky.com said: > >> I haven't looked at the fine details yet, but on the surface it >> seems like they're aiming at Gmail (mainly, but not solely). > > Interesting.

Re: fulldisc encryption

2014-05-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-05-2014 20:21, Mark Rousell escribió: ... > Note that there is also DiskCryptor for open source full disk > encryption on Windows. See http://diskcryptor.com. I've not tested > it but it does seem to work, although it suffers from the same > dr

Re: a bit OT: pgpdump binaries?

2014-05-11 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 09-05-2014 4:34, Josef Schneider escribió: ... > Hi, > > compilation is straightforward, if msys and mingw is installed! > pgpdump.c is missing a "#include ", after adding that > just a ./configure and make to compile it! I compiled a 64 and a

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-11 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 10-05-2014 4:23, Tomer Altman escribió: > To whom it may concern, > > I recall reading somewhere some best practices for creating one's > initial RSA key pair that they intend for building their Web of > Trust. I think the recommended steps were:

a bit OT: pgpdump binaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I hope this is not much off-topic. I was looking for pgpdump binaries, and the one I have is for version 0.20, I downloaded it on september 2011. But in the website, the current version is 0.28, from june 2013. Does somebody know where I

Re: signatures for other people's emails

2014-05-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 16-04-2014 13:37, Hauke Laging escribió: > Am Mi 16.04.2014, 18:21:16 schrieb Peter Lebbing: >> The usual way it works here would be, in your example, for the >> dean to send the recipients a message with "Please consider the >> request in the att

Re: signatures for other people's emails

2014-05-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 16-04-2014 11:14, Hauke Laging escribió: > Hello, ... Hello Hauke, > I was told that this effect was less about the offer itself but > more about the point that this was "one more email from a stranger > to a group of people". I.e. probably no

Re: Managing Subkeys for Professional and Personal UIDs

2014-05-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-05-2014 18:18, Daniel Kahn Gillmor escribió: > On 05/02/2014 06:03 PM, Faramir wrote: >> El 28-04-2014 14:35, Daniel Kahn Gillmor escribió: ... >>> But I also want to point out that some employers may have a >>> le

Re: A few newbie Qs

2014-05-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 27-04-2014 9:04, Simon Ward escribió: ... > The password manager should clear or overwrite the clipboard after > a short time, which should help. Keepass includes "timed clipboard > clearing" in its feature list. Of course, there is still the > qu

Re: Managing Subkeys for Professional and Personal UIDs

2014-05-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 28-04-2014 14:35, Daniel Kahn Gillmor escribió: ... > But I also want to point out that some employers may have a > legitimate need (even a legal compulsion) to be able to decrypt > communications coming to your work-related e-mail. One reasonabl

Re: Access to www.gnupg.org only via TLS

2014-05-01 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-05-2014 8:55, Werner Koch escribió: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 21:36, faramir...@gmail.com said: > >> I'm thinking, now you are using CAcert certificates, would it be >> possible to get a CAcert signature on the gpg s

Re: Access to www.gnupg.org only via TLS

2014-05-01 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-05-2014 5:57, Peter Lebbing escribió: > On 30/04/14 23:48, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> So a CA who learns that a statement that it has made is untrue >> *should* revoke that statement as soon as it finds out > > However, how many of the free

Re: Access to www.gnupg.org only via TLS

2014-04-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-04-2014 15:23, Doug Barton escribió: > On 04/30/2014 01:25 AM, Martin Gollowitzer wrote: ... > Yeah, I don't quite see your point. They are providing a very > valuable service for free, and charge a nominal fee for revoking a > cert. If you ...

Re: Access to www.gnupg.org only via TLS

2014-04-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-04-2014 3:41, Werner Koch escribió: ... > Note that https is not enforced for lists.gnupg.org and the other > services because over there we use CAcert certificates which do not > work widely enough. If there is an interest to have lists at h

Re: cryptanalysis question: Does knowing some of the content of the message make the full message vulnerable to decryption?

2014-01-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-01-2014 18:15, Donald Morgan Jr. escribió: > If you know a user has a signature that they use to always end a > message with, does that data aid in the decryption of the file? > Would this exploit be applicable to symmetric encryption methods a

Re: Customizing GPG Tools Keychain

2013-10-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 03-10-2013 17:48, Alejandro Szita escribió: > Dear All, > > I am a new member to this list, so first of all thank you so much > for your time and consideration in helping me out, I hope I can > return the favour in the near future. > > My system

Re: [Gpg4win-announce] Gpg4win 2.2.0 released

2013-08-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 21-08-2013 8:53, Emanuel Schütze escribió: > Hello, > > we are pleased to announce the availability of the new stable > Gpg4win version 2.2.0. Nice! But... is the stable version different than Gpg4win 2.2.0-beta56 ? Sometimes the final version

Re: Serpent?

2013-08-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-08-2013 9:56, Robert J. Hansen escribió: ... > GnuPG extends this with support for Camellia-128, Camellia-192 and > Camellia-256. I don't know the reasoning for introducing Camellia, > but I'm sure there's a solid basis for it. IIRC, someb

Re: Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-03-2013 5:14, Doug Barton escribió: ... > The signatures are from the same keys, same certification level, > everything. The only thing different is the date of the signature > (obviously). > > So the question is, what value, if any, would t

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-03-01 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-02-2013 19:54, Peter Loshin escribió: ... > 2. On keeping an encrypted backup of my secret key material, what > method is recommended for doing that? (Presumably something like > "gpg --export-secret-keys | gpg --output secretkeymatter.gpg >

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-08 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 08-02-2013 6:48, Peter Lebbing escribió: > On 08/02/13 03:12, Josef Schneider wrote: >> With GnuPG on the other hand someone who has access to my PC can >> sign whatever he likes and sign as much as he likes, as long as >> my card reader is attach

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-07 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-02-2013 19:51, Robert J. Hansen escribió: > On 2/6/13 4:28 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: >> Can you explain (broadly) how one would compromise the >> signature/the device that you sign with? > > Happily! > > I have an OpenPGP smartcard and an SCM

Re: Seperate Master Key and signing/encrypting subkeys method

2012-12-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 04-12-2012 18:18, Allen Schultz escribió: > GnuPG-Users: > > I was wondering where that article was about seperating the master > key from daily subkeys (both signing and encrypting). I can't seem > to find it. Are there other articles on the s

Re: OT: USB key with hardware encryption?

2012-12-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-12-2012 16:38, Richard Höchenberger escribió: ... > http://www.corsair.com/usb-drive/flash-padlock-2-usb-drive.html > > Do you guys have any experience with one of these? I found the favorable review: http://www.everythingusb.com/corsair-

Re: OT: USB key with hardware encryption?

2012-12-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-12-2012 16:38, Richard Höchenberger escribió: > Apparently I just now figured out how to use Google ;) Found two > flash drives with built-in encryption & pinpad: > > http://www.lok-it.net/ > http://www.corsair.com/usb-drive/flash-padlock-2-u

Re: OT: USB key with hardware encryption?

2012-12-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-12-2012 18:31, Doug Barton escribió: ... > It's OT for this mailing list, but you could use TrueCrypt in > portable mode in this situation with a file volume. I think he can't, TrueCrypt in portable mode still require admin rights to run,

Re: new release of GPA

2012-11-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-11-2012 11:30, Werner Koch escribió: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:56, faramir...@gmail.com said: > >> My fault, I was trying with www.gpg4win.org > > Your problem might be that you still filter out the 5.0.0.0/8 net > which

Re: new release of GPA

2012-11-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-11-2012 11:30, Werner Koch escribió: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 07:56, faramir...@gmail.com said: > >> My fault, I was trying with www.gpg4win.org > > Your problem might be that you still filter out the 5.0.0.0/8 net > which

Re: new release of GPA

2012-11-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-11-2012 18:26, MFPA escribió: > Hi Hello, >> I have 2 questions: > >> 1.- Is it me, or gpg4win site is down? > > http://gpg4win.org/ is working for me at the moment. I wasn't > trying an hour ago. (-; My fault, I was trying with www.gp

Re: new release of GPA

2012-11-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 30-10-2012 9:31, Werner Koch escribió: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:41, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > >> Could you perhaps make a list of, say, the top five features >> GPGshell supports that GPA doesn't? Things that you, yourself, >> use regularly,

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-31 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 29-10-2012 15:34, Robert J. Hansen escribió: > On 10/29/2012 2:05 PM, User wrote: >> You may want to take a look at GPGshell for an alternative. > > GPGshell is not Free Software, and for that reason it's not > exactly appropriate to recommend it

Re: What is stopping PKI from growing was: Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 29-08-2012 5:28, antispa...@sent.at escribió: > Hello List! > > I'm (for some of you) your worst nightmare. Somebody who does not > master the fine arts of cryptography, yet has an oppinion about > cryptography. I might say I enjoy reading the th

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 28-08-2012 20:01, MFPA escribió: Hello, >> IMHO, the main trouble probably is people don't feel the need to >> protect their privacy. > > So why do they use envelopes rather than postcards, and keep > secret the PIN for their cashpoint cards?

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-29 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 28-08-2012 18:27, Stan Tobias escribió: ... >> What would happen if you start reading your daughter's diary >> everyday, but never let anybody catch you reading it? And you >> are ... > I would be violating her privacy. Right, that was my poi

Re: on running C-Z/SUV without a "group manager"

2012-08-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 24-08-2012 8:42, peter.segm...@wronghead.com escribió: ... >> Yes and no. If the group manager configures the software,... > > This group's view is now that a single point of failure (such as a > "group manager" - who probably either does (or ea

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-08-2012 17:37, Stan Tobias escribió: ... > If you want to preserve the Privacy (like I described above), you > have to exercise it. You have to take a risk that someone will > open and read your letter/email, and if they do, you demand them >

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-26 Thread Faramir
think it is good to discuss a bit about the "why" from time to time. Of course, the list is devoted to discussing the "how". ... > Faramir wrote: >> IMHO, the main trouble probably is people don't feel the need to >> protect their privacy. If they don't

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-08-2012 1:35, Laurent Jumet escribió: > Hello Faramir ! Hello Lauren, > On your message below, my GPG gives this warning: > > === Begin Windows Clipboard === gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP SIGNED > MESSAGE gpg: armor header: Hash:

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 24-08-2012 19:33, Robert J. Hansen escribió: ... > Thank you, John. Simson Garfinkel has another one worth adding to > the list, but I'm blanking on it for the life of me right now -- > give me a Maybe "Bridge over troubled waters"? (I'm joki

Re: gpg "simplified"?

2012-08-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-08-2012 14:59, peter.segm...@wronghead.com escribió: > Thank you for your comprehensive comments, You are welcome, lets add more comments. > On 22/08/12 03:16, Faramir - faramir...@gmail.com wrote: >> I think you are wrong abo

Re: gpg "simplified"?

2012-08-21 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 31-07-2012 8:17, peter.segm...@wronghead.com escribió: ... > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is unreasonable to expect anybody > to successfully and safely use gpg without understanding the > concepts and mastering the skills essential to the WO

check-passphrase-pattern

2012-08-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I saw a message at spanish help list, requesting where to find an example pattern file to use with check-passphrase-pattern option. Since this list is a lot more populated than spanish list, I thought I should forward the question here.

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-07-2012 8:43, Heinz Diehl escribió: > On 26.07.2012, Faramir wrote: > >>> That's security through obscurity assuming the other one won't >>> know where to search for the key, which is not stored with ... &

Re: AES vs. Serpent vs. Twofish (was Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys)

2012-07-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-07-2012 5:56, Ben McGinnes escribió: > On 26/07/12 6:40 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: ... >> For instance, I don't like Serpent very much on account of how >> complex it is. My rule of thumb is, "if I don't believe an >> undergraduate in compu

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-25 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-07-2012 8:29, antispa...@sent.at escribió: > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012, at 03:23, Faramir wrote: ... >>> Yes, security through obscurity. A possible attacker won't know >>> for ... >> I don't know w

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-25 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-07-2012 2:50, Heinz Diehl escribió: > On 25.07.2012, Faramir wrote: > >> Clearly I'm out of my league there. I had heard about that, but >> later I also heard about stacking different algos (with different >>

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-25 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-07-2012 1:12, Robert J. Hansen escribió: > On 7/24/2012 10:21 PM, Faramir wrote: >> Clearly I'm out of my league there. I had heard about that, but >> later I also heard about stacking different algos (with different &

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-07-2012 16:52, Robert J. Hansen escribió: > On 7/22/2012 12:12 PM, Faramir wrote: >> If your secret key is password protected, placing it inside a >> keepass file would add a second (maybe unneeded) layer of >> protection

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-07-2012 19:39, antispa...@sent.at escribió: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012, at 16:25, Doug Barton wrote: ... >> Your private key is encrypted, right? Use a strong password for >> that and you're in fine shape. > > Yes, security through obscurity. A po

Re: KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

2012-07-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 20-07-2012 11:51, antispa...@sent.at escribió: > I don't know much about security and cryptography. So what do you > think about this combination? Is it any safer or is just a waste of > time with the conversion to ASCII and back? If your secre

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-05-2012 4:58, tim.kac...@gmail.com escribió: ... > There are also estimates made that in the US 1 in 6 "protestors" is > actually a government agent of one sort or another, dept of > defense, homeland security, fbi what have you. And that exl

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-05-2012 8:34, da...@gbenet.com escribió: ... > Some say that all the power of the universe - and all the time its > been in existence will not crack a 2048 bit key with a secure > passphrase. So by the time the universe is well and That is a

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 22-05-2012 12:33, Jerry escribió: ... > that sort of logic. What really amazed me though was that the OP > wants security and yet he uses GMail. "GMail" and "security" are > diametrically opposed concepts. Why? If I send an encrypted message,

Re: SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-05-2012 7:46, Milo escribió: ... >> You also indicate yourself where this goes askew: RSA 8k is >> immensely more CPU intensive than AES256 v AES128. > > If you can't afford this "immense" expense - don't use 8k RSA. But if you send a sign

Re: SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 04-05-2012 10:17, Milo escribió: > Hello Robert, Hello all. ... >> How many petabytes are sent across the wire each day? Do you >> really think people will be storing all of today's traffic for >> twenty years, just so some analyst not even born

Re: Current key servers

2012-04-20 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 12-04-2012 20:29, John Clizbe escribió: ... >> pool.sks-keyservers.net adds them to its own list. So really, >> that's the only address you need. :) > > It's best to stick with the pool address, otherwise if you select a > single server, you'l

Re: comments on uid

2012-03-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 18-03-2012 15:13, freej...@is-not-my.name escribió: >> I should note that many people actually *don't* check if the >> e-mail address belongs to the person whose UID they sign. If this >> were as ... > That doesn't sound right. If you can't verify

Re: comments on uid

2012-03-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 18-03-2012 5:13, freej...@is-not-my.name escribió: ... > Alright that's a good answer but aren't people just confirming the > email address belongs to a known signer when they sign a key? Does > it really matter what the UID comment is? I think it

Re: invalid gpg key revocation

2012-03-07 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 07-03-2012 18:24, MFPA escribió: ... >> Only your private key can generate the revocation certificate, > > > Can't you add another key as a designated revoker, and then > generate the revocation certificate with that other private key? You ar

Re: invalid gpg key revocation

2012-03-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-03-2012 16:58, Peter Lebbing escribió: ... > The keyservers don't do any validation on revocation certificates; > anyone who feels like it can add /invalid/ revocation certificates > to your key to annoy you. But as soon as OpenPGP software imp

Re: invalid gpg key revocation

2012-03-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 06-03-2012 15:59, auto15963...@hushmail.com escribió: ... > I do in fact use gpg-agent and a cache >0, but this machine is not > in a workplace or public location. It is in my home, in a place > where visitors have no access, and my family woul

Re: invalid gpg key revocation

2012-03-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 04-03-2012 19:29, Hauke Laging escribió: ... > The interesting question about that is not about you publishing the > public key but about how the person could get access to your > private key. It is not possible to revoke a key without the private

Re: Revoke a key 0E84608B

2012-01-31 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 31-01-2012 9:12, Marko Randjelovic escribió: > I tried to revoke this key since after changing a passphrase on > 2012-01-28 and using it with new passphrase immediately after, > after a few hours I could not again be successfull (bad > passphrase)

Re: Revoke a key 0E84608B

2012-01-31 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 31-01-2012 9:12, Marko Randjelovic escribió: > I tried to revoke this key since after changing a passphrase on > 2012-01-28 and using it with new passphrase immediately after, > after a few hours I could not again be successfull (bad > passphrase)

GnuPG distribution signature

2012-01-30 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Is key D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 ( 0x4F25E3B6 ) the current key used for signing files? I suppose it is, but I'd like to ask before issuing a local signature. Best Regards -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ver

Re: Using root CAs as a trusted 3rd party

2012-01-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 24-01-2012 16:26, brian m. carlson escribió: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:13:46PM -0300, Faramir wrote: >> Well, if Trent signs Alice key, Bob, who trust Trent, might sign >> her key too. Charly doesn't know Trent,

Re: Using root CAs as a trusted 3rd party

2012-01-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 21-01-2012 18:50, Gregor Zattler escribió: > Hi Aaron, gnupg users, * Aaron Toponce > [21. Jan. 2012]: >> I just signed an OpenPGP key with cert level 0x12 (casual >> checking) given the following scenario: >> >> * A PGP key was signed by an SSL

Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-13 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 11-11-2011 19:57, Doug Barton escribió: > On 11/11/2011 14:54, Chris Poole wrote: ... >> OK thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I'd still have to decrypt >> and re-encrypt them to keep hashes of all plaintext versions of >> the files though. (Thinki

Re: private key protection

2011-10-19 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 19-10-2011 17:54, Peter Lebbing escribió: > On 19/10/11 22:43, Faramir wrote: >> Ok, but if the online computer uses Windows, and the offline one >> uses Linux, then it would be a multiplataform trojan horse... >> that

Re: private key protection

2011-10-19 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 18-10-2011 10:07, Peter Lebbing escribió: ... > A capable enough hacker might infect the USB pendrive while it is > in your internet-connected PC and that way still gain access to the > non-connected system. Ok, but if the online computer uses

Re: restoring SmartCard key with off-card copy

2011-10-06 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-10-2011 6:21, Peter Lebbing escribió: > On 05/10/11 08:15, Faramir wrote: >> Would Paperkey be useful to do that? I guess no, since it >> encodes the private key somehow... but maybe tweaking it? > > IMHO, if you want

Re: restoring SmartCard key with off-card copy

2011-10-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > On 28/09/11 15:50, Werner Koch wrote: >> There is no feature for it. You may use gpgsplit to manually >> construct a key from such a backup. You need to take the >> keybinding signature etc from the matching public key. I have >> not tried, it t

Easiest way to migrate from GPG 1.4.11 to 2.x?

2011-09-18 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, I've been a very happy user of 1.4.x branch for some years. Now I'm thinking about moving to 2.x, which would mean GPG4Win. How do I migrate my keyrings to 2.x? Simple copy/paste? Best Regards -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Which release should we be using?

2011-08-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-08-2011 15:08, David Tomaschik escribió: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Faramir > wrote: >> According to keepass strength measurer, you can get more than 128 >> bits with just 30 characters (including some

Re: Which release should we be using?

2011-08-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 26-08-2011 12:35, Aaron Toponce escribió: ... > Also, 62-character passphrase might be a bit extreme, giving you a > false-sense of security. Using a truly random sequence of characters > from the 94-printable ASCII pool of characters, a 12-char

Re: Extract numbers from a key // wrong pgpdump link :-(

2011-08-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 03-08-2011 9:40, ved...@nym.hush.com escribió: > Sorry, wrong link extension, > > here is the correct one: http://www.pgpdump.net/ By the way, what would be required to run pgpdump locally? I guess there is no compiled version for windows...

Re: Why sign as well as encrypt files stored on untrusted drives?

2011-07-15 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 13-07-2011 7:28, Chris Poole escribió: ... > Is there some feasible attack that could change the encrypted data > in such a way that I won't notice it when I decrypt the file, but > somehow the file will still decrypt? Anyone that has a copy of

Re: formatting of gpg blocks

2011-06-19 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 19-06-2011 4:20, 0 escribió: > > I see. I read that it is a good practice to sign one's public key before > giving it to other people. I thought they meant signing the key as a > message. Now that you clarified this, I went to seahorse, Name

Re: Generate digest and signature seperately

2011-06-13 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 13-06-2011 11:39, Hauke Laging escribió: ... > I would like to have the possibility to pass the hash to be signed. I suppose if the hash is sent using a "secure" connection, it should be safe enough. But that option, no doubt, would be an "expe

Re: Problem with faked-system-time option

2011-06-13 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 07-06-2011 4:18, Werner Koch escribió: ... >> Those are a lot of questions, but I'm still highly sceptical towards >> that GPG2 monster and would prefer to stay with my more manageable > > It is not a moster; rthe installer is only that larger be

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-16 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 16-05-2011 12:35, Jerome Baum escribió: ... > In the worst case, you may be looking at loosing everything from the > corruption point onwards, assuming some kind of stream compression. This > is IIRC the default for GnuPG when it encrypts. Otherwi

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 24-04-2011 6:49, Mike Acker escribió: > On 14:59, Faramir wrote: >> You can store them in a password manager, it's more secure than a txt ... > how long have we been asking the industry for Single Logon? a password > m

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-26 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 24-04-2011 13:47, Ingo Klöcker escribió: > On Sunday 24 April 2011, Faramir wrote: ... >> You can store them in a password manager, it's more secure than a >> txt file or a post-it on the screen. > > That's n

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