Re: Thanks to Sven and Peter (was: Re: Lost passphrase)

2007-04-25 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
Now we just need to remove your toe. :) On Apr 17, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Thomas Sowa wrote: Hi, i just created a new key, the revocation and tatood the passphrase on my left toe :-= Thanks for help, i figured that the situation looks bad, but hoped thare could be done something. If it were,

Thanks to Sven and Peter (was: Re: Lost passphrase)

2007-04-25 Thread Thomas Sowa
Hi, i just created a new key, the revocation and tatood the passphrase on my left toe :-= Thanks for help, i figured that the situation looks bad, but hoped thare could be done something. If it were, however, it would go at cost of security, so it's all good. Take care and watch out for your pas

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-22 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Sowa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - i definitely can't find the passphrase Have a look at http://vanheusden.com/nasty/ HTH -- left blank, right bald pgpvNLbhhsNSQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnup

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:59:01PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > I have read what everybody has said on the subject and one > > thing needs to be said again. THE DEFAULT EXPIRE FOR A NEW > > KEY NEEDS TO BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM DATE OF KEY CREATION! > > That's making some really big assumption

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I have read what everybody has said on the subject and one > thing needs to be said again. THE DEFAULT EXPIRE FOR A NEW > KEY NEEDS TO BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM DATE OF KEY CREATION! That's making some really big assumptions about the security policy of the person making the key. There are also

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Thomas Sowa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have read what everybody has said on the subject and one thing needs to be said again. THE DEFAULT EXPIRE FOR A NEW KEY NEEDS TO BE FOR TWO YEARS FROM DATE OF KEY CREATION! If they want to change it after they have used them for a while and like what the

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Peter S. May
Sven Radde wrote: > If yes, you're quite screwed as it will stay there forever: New contacts > will not know which key to choose when they look your name up on the > keyservers. People might be smart enough to use the newer of the two > keys. If you don't rely so much on the keyservers to distribut

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Thomas Sowa schrieb: > - i can't revoke it --> no passphrase :-( > - i still need the email adresses with the useless keys > - i definitely can't find the passphrase Well, the severity of the problem depends on whether your "forgotten" keys are available on the public keyservers. If not, you

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Charly Avital
John W. Moore III wrote the following on 4/17/07 3:51 PM: [...] > > If You are unable to Revoke the former Key then by all means; Generate a > New Key (and create a standby Revoke cert) and Publish this Key *AND* > notify every critical correspondent of the new Key! Still, those folks > who Sear

Re: Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > - i can't revoke it --> no passphrase :-( > - i still need the email adresses with the useless keys > - i definitely can't find the passphrase OK, Stupid Response Question First: Did You have the common sense to generate a Revocation Certificate

Lost passphrase

2007-04-17 Thread Thomas Sowa
Hi, a while ago I was experimenting with gpg and mutt, made some keys and uploaded them. Then there was little time to play with it so I forgot about it for a while and kept using my old mailer without the keys. Now I just found the time again to set it all up like it should, and realized that I

Re: Lost passphrase

2006-05-22 Thread markus reichelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a perl script or some other utility that could > bruteforce the rest of it? I'd rather not have to revoke this key. Have a look at http://www.vanheusden.com/nasty/ -- left blank, right bald pgp0zxmmzKivj.pgp Description: PGP signature

Lost passphrase

2006-05-22 Thread kennerly
It appears I've forgotten my passphrase. I've still got the secret key, the revocation certificate and I remember the first 5 characters of the passphrase. I know the rest is just alphanumeric upper and lowercase. Does anyone know of a perl script or some other utility that could bruteforce t