Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities

2010-09-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:42:19PM +0200, Vjaceslavs Klimovs wrote: > Thank you for all your replies. It seems that multiple separate keys is > the way to go for me. Is it socially acceptable to ask someone to sign > several keys, for example during key signing event? Is this a common > occur

Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities

2010-09-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:00:40AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > It'd be nice if there was a signature notation that specifies which > > UID(s) this signature would be valid for. > Unless i'm misunderstanding your suggestion, there is no need for such a > notation -- OpenPGP certific

Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities

2010-09-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:15:24PM +0200, Vjaceslavs Klimovs wrote: > If I have multiple not related e-mail accounts, is it better to create > one key pair with multiple identities or a separate key pair for every > account? That depends on your use case mostly. I use a single key with multi

Re: gnuPGP Setup

2010-08-20 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:26:07PM -0700, BernePGP wrote: > After the recipient has loaded the programe he generates a personal key but > does he do as I have done and copy out his public key in a wordfile and send > it to me? Essentially, yes. It is usually advisable to use plain text file

Re: Accessing the 2nd card reader

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, on a related note: I have two cards, one is full sized, one SIM sized, and two different readers, one of which is an USB stick that is inserted only when needed. Using such a setup is a serious hassle, because I need to reconfigure the reader-port everytime I want to use the other card. Can t

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:51:50AM +0200, Snaky Love wrote: > I would like to encrypt communication in groups - not instant communication > like e.g. messengers like pidgin, but like on a forum or web-group - the > data persists in an archive, where the communication can be read. Members > a

Re: Encrypting/decrypting large amounts of data in parallel using GnuPG with a HSM ?

2010-04-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 02:57:33PM +0200, Aleksander Adamowski wrote: > I want to have the private key securely stored in the hardware > (SmartCard or HSM), asymmetric crypto ops securely performed in the > hardware and I'm concerned with the hardware becoming a bottleneck. > I suspect that

Re: smart card with 4096 bit keys

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 07:37:49PM +0200, Joke de Buhr wrote: > https://www.privacyfoundation.de/crypto_stick/ > Within an email developers stated the usb stick itself could handle keys with > a length of 4096 but gnupg doesn't support these key lengths. The key length is limited by the ca