Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 1/5/21 8:24 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:27:14AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users wrote: Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obtained enigmail for my Firefox browser

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 1/4/21 9:31 PM, ï¿œngel wrote: Finally, every user will need to discard their now-useless keys, generate new ones and rebuild the chain of turst from the ground up. Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obta

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 10/7/19 9:32 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Bingo! And as long as the user is not interested in it, and won't learn > how to properly use it, all they will get is the veneer of privacy and > learn the hard way that they really aren't secure. You just can't make > security idiot proof. I had a real

Re: Generating revocation certificate

2019-04-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 4/6/19 12:32 PM, Markus Reichelt wrote: > i'm using on slackware64-current (if you are using windows, all hands > are off) > > gpg --version > gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.15 > libgcrypt 1.8.4 Mine's bigger than yours (older, too): $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.14 libgcrypt 1.4.5 Copyright (C) 2009 Free