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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Qed wrote:
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On 08/20/2006 07:31 AM, Caitlin wrote:
1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
it, would this represent a potential security concern?
Your keyring woul
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On 08/21/2006 02:59 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote:
>>> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
>>> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
>> Your keyring would be stored in your personal home dir, if you have
Hi.
Thanks for all of the responses. I'll be purchasing:
'PGP & GPG Email for the Practical Paranoid'
By NoStarch Press ($24.95)
next week.
Thanks,
~Caitlin
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Qed wrote:
>No, since the security issue is not related to the underlying
>cryptographic algorithms(e.g.: some time ago ElGamal signatures were
>discovered to be weak, so in newer version of GnuPG the generation of
>such keys is disabled).
They were not weak, there was an implementation error in
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On 08/20/2006 07:31 AM, Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
Your keyring would be stored in your personal home dir, if you have
installed XP
Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
We can't answer this question with a 'yes' or a 'no'. Decisions about
security are up to you. We can hopefully give you some questions which
will help yo
On Sunday 20 August 2006 6:31 am, Caitlin wrote:
> Hi all.
Hi and welcome :-)
> Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
> questions. Ready?
>
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern
Hi all.
Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
questions. Ready?
1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
it, would this represent a potential security concern?
2). Would I have to copy and paste encrypted messages received via
email to a
