Re: multiple subkeys and key transition

2010-12-09 Thread Sven Klomp
On Thursday 09 December 2010 07:14:53 Ben McGinnes wrote: > Hello, > I am giving very serious thought to creating new keys and > doing a (long-term) transition to them. This is partly to respond to > known flaws with SHA-1 and take advantage of SHA-256 and higher. > > There is currently a p

Fwd: Re: Testing with card, some questions

2010-11-16 Thread Sven Klomp
I foward this message to the list. It seems that reply-to of the mailing-list configuration is not correctly set... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Testing with card, some questions Date: Tuesday 16 November 2010, 11:40:49 From: "J. Ottosson" To: Sven Klomp

Re: Testing with card, some questions

2010-11-16 Thread Sven Klomp
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 11:05:05 J. Ottosson wrote: > Even more puzzling (which lead me to believe that the backup just mentioned > above was not made from card?) is that after having removed the card I could > still see the card details(!). This seems to be a bug of scdaemon. Kill the daemo

Re: Problems with two active encryption subkeys

2010-11-11 Thread Sven Klomp
On Thursday 11 November 2010 12:58:26 Hauke Laging wrote: > > Thus, other software may behave differently. I think, I > > have to revoke one key to avoid problems... > > Why should any problems arise from that? As long as the sender can encrypt > and > the recipient can decrypt... Doesn't matt

Re: Problems with two active encryption subkeys

2010-11-11 Thread Sven Klomp
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 20:20:13 Hauke Laging wrote: > I created some more subkeys to check that... > > For 2.0.15 you are right in one point and wrong in the other. It is the newer > creation date which is chosen not the longer remaining validity period. But > the newer key wins against t

Re: Problems with two active encryption subkeys

2010-11-10 Thread Sven Klomp
Hi, On Friday 05 November 2010 11:58:13 Sven Klomp wrote: > since I bought a Crypto Stick [1], I had to add an additional RSA sub-key for > encryption, since the stick doesn't support Elgamal. Thus, I have two > encryption keys in my public keyring now. How does gpg decide which

Problems with two active encryption subkeys

2010-11-05 Thread Sven Klomp
Hi, since I bought a Crypto Stick [1], I had to add an additional RSA subkey for encryption, since the stick doesn't support Elgamal. Thus, I have two encryption keys in my public keyring now. How does gpg decide which one to use for encryption? I thought, that every key is used and I can decid