Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
And maybe some (or all) of it should go in the FAQ, but i'll let Robert (who maintains the FAQ, iirc) weigh in on that. I feel as if I should apologize in advance here, because this is going to be a little bit ranty -- Daniel is making a good point, though, and any incoherent fist-shaking at

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/12/2014 03:35 AM, Tomer Altman wrote: > You recommend creating a revocation certificate against the private key, but > the GPG documentation seems to recommend creating the revocation certificate > against the public (sub-)key: > > https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html#REVOCATION > >

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-12 Thread Tomer Altman
ginal Message - From: "Daniel Kahn Gillmor" To: "Tomer Altman" , gnupg-users@gnupg.org Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 9:06:38 AM Subject: Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key Hi Tomer-- On 05/10/2014 05:23 AM, Tomer Altman wrote: > 1. Find a computer

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-11 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 10-05-2014 4:23, Tomer Altman escribió: > To whom it may concern, > > I recall reading somewhere some best practices for creating one's > initial RSA key pair that they intend for building their Web of > Trust. I think the recommended steps were:

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-10 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Tomer-- On 05/10/2014 05:23 AM, Tomer Altman wrote: > 1. Find a computer that you think is relatively free of malware > 2. Download a Live Linux distro CD/DVD/USB, and verify its signatures to make > sure you are not installing a tainted version > 3. Launch the verified Linux distro. > 4. Use

Re: Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-10 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Saturday 10 May 2014 01:23:57 Tomer Altman wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > I recall reading somewhere some best practices for creating one's > initial RSA key pair that they intend for building their Web of > Trust. I think the recommended steps were: > > 1. Find a computer that you think

Best practices for securely creating master RSA key

2014-05-10 Thread Tomer Altman
To whom it may concern, I recall reading somewhere some best practices for creating one's initial RSA key pair that they intend for building their Web of Trust. I think the recommended steps were: 1. Find a computer that you think is relatively free of malware 2. Download a Live Linux distro CD