On 3/16/2018 9:16 AM, Steven Maddox wrote:
> I get the impression they want the decryption happening on the end users
> machines.
>
> Presumably so that if any users got the idea to just 'upload' a file
> online - it'd be the encrypted version of that file. Course someone can
> just get around th
On 3/16/2018 9:15 AM, Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> How does that work when the decryption key is on the client?
I don't think it is on the client. The private key is stored on the
server and is decrypted when you log in. At least I think that's how it
works. I've never actually tried using EFS on
On 3/16/2018 4:11 AM, Steven Maddox wrote:
> Yeah I just use LUKS on my PC to protect local files, but this is (as
> above) for files on SMB/Windows shares... sorry for not mentioning that
> sooner.
I believe you can enable EFS on the windows server and it will handle
decrypting the file before se
On 3/15/2018 11:26 AM, Steven Maddox wrote:
> The desktop portion of that software has an OS/kernel level driver that
> watches if you're trying to open a PGP encrypted file... then decrypts
> it on the fly and finally passes it to the application that'd normally
> open it.
> Anyway I can ei
On 1/15/2018 3:00 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> It's from 2003. It doesn't need modernization.
>
> Keyservers are designed the way they are for a reason. If keyservers
> *never ever discard or modify existing data*, then you can easily
> identify any code which theoretically might be able to dis
On 1/15/2018 10:24 PM, listo factor via Gnupg-users wrote:
> If there is merit to the principle that an Internet server operator
> can not keep publicly serving private data over the objections of
> the owner (the same as today, after many battles, he can no longer
There isn't merit. It became pu
On 11/2/2017 3:04 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> On 02/11/17 16:58, Phil Susi wrote:
>> Why is this?
>
> What version of GnuPG is this? It's a well-known limitation of GnuPG 1.4
> and 2.0, but my 2.1.18 allows me to add secret subkeys through --import.
Looks like I've sti
Whenever my subkeys expire and I have to generate a new one, I try to
import the keys on my less secure machines and gpg stupidly refuses to
update the already existing key with the new subkey. I have to delete
the key, then import to get the new subkey into the keyring. Why is this?
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