Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: > > Then it makes me wonder what is the purpose of the off card backup > file sk_X.gpg created when the original private key was created via > the on-card method? > Huh, according

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 06:55:17PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote: > > I'm not a smartcard user (somehow the concept hasn't been able to > convince me ... yet), but what you write really sounds rather > strange. Essentially you're saying: no backup

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 07:03:42PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote: > > Sorry, that was heat-induced and shall read of course as follows: > No need to apologize :) > > Essentially you're saying: a private key generated on/via a smartcard > cannot

Re: OpenPGP smartcard restore

2006-06-13 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:01:27PM +0100, Tristan Williams wrote: > I am experimenting with the OpenPGP smartcard. I have two OpenPGP smart > cards (smartA and smartB) and I want to verify that I can restore my > on-card generated private key shou

Re: Corrupting files

2006-06-12 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:36:54AM +0200, Remco Post wrote: > > Brute force... trying every possible key on a message until the > Brute force both in the key length and the size of the alphabet. > > decrypted message makes sense. Since in theory

Smart-card daemon and PKCS#11

2006-06-04 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 After several independent queries about my PKCS#11 patch to gpg 1.4, I've decided to start an independent project and do the thing properly instead of keeping the patch up-to-date. The project aims to replace the scdaemon component of GnuPG 2 wit

Re: Problems decrypting a mail with my openpgp card

2006-05-18 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:27:10AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > > I can't remember whether the card checks for correct padding in > internal_authenticate. If it does not, you may indeed use it to > decrypt a message. > ok, i've just checked the v

Re: Problems decrypting a mail with my openpgp card

2006-05-17 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:46:32AM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > > You basically can't, unless you have a copy of your authentication key > Why not? Authentication is the same as encryption with private key which amounts to decryption of the origin

Re: gnupg in large scale at University

2005-12-23 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:32:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would rank the initial setup effort as 2, 1, 3, 4. > To followup on myself... All your users will have to import your root certificate to stop SW from complaining about un

Re: gnupg in large scale at University

2005-12-23 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:47:56PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > I just got in charge of managing Linux- and Unix servers at the University of > Salzburg (Austria) and one of my first tasks is to implement a secure way of > exchanging email

Re: gpg and PHP (return value 2)

2005-11-09 Thread zvrba
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 12:08:16PM -, Pete Croft wrote: > > I suspect it's a permissions problem: the source file for encryption > exists, the key is correct, and the exact same command issued via CLI > produces the output file as desired, so in the absence of other evidence > I'm guessing th

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-26 Thread zvrba
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 08:01:15PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > I wouldn't sign the email only one because an email address can be accessible > to more than one person. If I'm encrypting to this key, I want to know to > WHOM I am writing. > In some cases you can't to WHOM you are writing. Wh

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-23 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 11:12:01PM +0200, markus reichelt wrote: > > http://bitfalle.org/keys/gpg-key-signing-policy.php > I don't feel like reading the GNU documentation license, so a short question: may I reuse and adapt this text to my own needs? [I'll give you a proper credit] > > imagine y

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-23 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:14:58PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > ? That key has NO signatures other than yourself! There's no way anyone can > trust it. There are NO paths. > It does, look at: http://pks.aaiedu.hr:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x16DA1F1690887E13 http://pks.aaiedu.hr:11371/

Re: Delete key from keyserver

2005-10-22 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:31:54PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > That is exactly my point, NOBODY should rely on ANY of that information to > identify a key. The only identifier for a key is the fingerprint. You MUST > verify the fingerprint with the person and only then can you be sure that t

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread zvrba
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 03:11:56PM +, cdr wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The point is that the statement about deniability is misleading (or maybe I > >I should say, close to false). > > Zeljko, deniability has its place. It could be semantics, but perhaps you > are not be making suffic

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:06:31PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > But most people are ineffectively paranoid. They worry about eavesdropping, > snooping, interception of their e-mail, but they absolutely refuse to do > anything about it. I know no one personally that uses encrypted e-mail. >

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:01:15PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > > > >>I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt > >> > > > > A quote from the CrossCrypt homepage: "Denaiablity: You will not be able > > to tell

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > > I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt > A quote from the CrossCrypt homepage: "Denaiablity: You will not be able to tell that this file has been encrypted by filedisk as it looks completely random and can have any extension you wi

Re: partition encryption?

2005-10-07 Thread zvrba
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:13:07AM -0700, Eric wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: > > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a > > partition that can be available both to linux and win32? > > It's not easy to do this, and I don't think it will get a