Re: Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

2015-01-05 Thread Nex6|Bill
> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Sandeep Murthy wrote: > > Hi > > I have a couple of questions about key generation, subkeys and the > documentation > on gnupg.org. > > (FYI I have GnuPG/MacGPG (v. 2.0.26) on my Mac.) > > 1. I just tried to generate an RSA keypair using `gpg` on the command lin

Re: The praise of GnuPG @31C3 and why it is important (was: Guys please all see)

2015-01-02 Thread Nex6|Bill
watched the video, its amazing how much is broken and that GPG and OTR are not. > On Dec 31, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Nicolai Josuttis wrote: > > OK, > for those who didn't have time to see the talk at 31C3 > as a whole and therefore wondering why this is an important talk, > let me point out and quot

Re: riseup.net OpenPGP Best Practices article

2014-06-24 Thread Nex6|Bill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/24/2014 10:57 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Di 24.06.2014, 09:50:04 schrieb Nex6|Bill: > >> anykind of "best practice", should be simple, so that it >> encourages a sane baseline for people. > > That depends

Re: riseup.net OpenPGP Best Practices article

2014-06-24 Thread Nex6|Bill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/24/2014 10:52 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I recently, generated a new keypair (GPG4win), and the defaults >> presented where RSA/2048. I did, some digging around on the RSA >> vs DSA thing and RSA still seems to be the recommended way to go,

Re: riseup.net OpenPGP Best Practices article

2014-06-24 Thread Nex6|Bill
I just finished reading the article, I don't know anyone who does all of those things. most people I know who are advid GPG users, gen a key, maybe a revoke, upload it to a keyserver sometimes. and that's about it. using subkeys, offline keys etc, adds way more complexity to something arguably

Re: riseup.net OpenPGP Best Practices article

2014-06-24 Thread Nex6|Bill
I recently, generated a new keypair (GPG4win), and the defaults presented where RSA/2048. I did, some digging around on the RSA vs DSA thing and RSA still seems to be the recommended way to go, the only thing I did was up my key size to 4096 I left all the other defaults.    On Monday, Jun