Re: Washington State Electronic Notary Public endorsements

Hi C.J., On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:53:02AM -0700, C.J. Collier wrote: > In short, GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts > in the State of > Washington! Awesome! However, if I go to that link, it shows a list of formats to be used

Re: Getting more verbose details of a key

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 08:56:24AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:10, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > > > GnuPG by default does not show *expired* subkeys. Use --list-options > > show-unusable-subkeys to do that. > > Let me also add that using gpg without any command (as in ".

Re: your message could not,be delivered to one or more recipients.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:22:30PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 16/11/17 14:55, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > From where does it get port 451? My SMTP port is 465 > > 204.29.186.9 is my ISP for e-mail: AOL. > > It's probably not a port. Note that the port 465 you are using to submit > mail has n

Re: Managing the WoT with GPG

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:34:44PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > 2. I've also tried running --update-trustdb, but it seems that this >process is *endless*. I have no idea how many keys remain, and >I also got the impression that I keep seeing keys I already >processed. How do you appr

Re: Trouble installing Version 2.1 on Debian Jessie

On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 09:03:14PM -0700, Rex Kneisley wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm trying to install version 2.1 the "Debian way".. > > According to dkg's web-log entry titled "GnuPG 2.1.0 in debian experimental" > > I should use experimental. This is no longer the case; GnuPG 2.1 is in Debian

Re: "general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 08:42:45PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > There are a > > few possible attacks that the use of a smartcard mitigates, and > > therefore a smartcard key *is* more secure than a non-smartcard key > > No. It's more secure *only if those attacks are within your threat > pr

Re: "general purpose OS is fundamentally inadequate for trusted operations"

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > The game-over condition without a smartcard is, "my computer gets > compromised by an attacker." No, that is *one of* the game-over conditions; it is not *the* game-over condition. Without a smartcard, there are other game-over co

Re: Smart card

Hi Will, On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 06:18:59PM -0500, Will Senn wrote: > Are smartcards out of vogue? No. Smartcards are useful. They ensure that the private half of your key is never on any hard disk or other general storage device, and therefore that it cannot possibly be stolen (because there's

Re: some beginner questions

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 06:23:14PM -0500, Will Senn wrote: > Sounds like what I was led to believe to be the case, but at the end of > the day, I don't seem to be able to sign anything with the signing > subkey if the master key is not present (with sec instead of sec#). At a guess, you may need t

Re: Complexities on faking one signature

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 07:12:38PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > 2. Enumerating the possible signature of that certain message and > > using the target's public key to verify if one of the signatures is > > correct. > > I'm not sure what you mean here; that's not how signatures work. > Signat

Re: Deleting a smart card secret key stub from the secret keyring

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:08:44PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 14:13, w...@uter.be said: > > > How do I tell GnuPG that this secret key is no longer in existence, and > > that it should remove it from its list of secret keys? I've removed it > > gpg --with-keygrip -k b36c821

Deleting a smart card secret key stub from the secret keyring

re is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. sec rsa4096/B36C8212 2016-04-02 Wouter Verhelst (Debian) Delete this key from the keyring? (y/N) y This is a secret key! - really delete? (y/N) y gpg: deleting secret key failed: Not possible with a card based key gpg: deleting secret subkey failed: