Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Scott Lambdin
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Denise Schmid wrote: > Thanks all for your help. > > Now, the story gets even more funny: They claim to have used PGP split-key, > then encrypted the files with a randomized key, then encrypted the key with > individual keys. > > So far so bad. But now comes the b

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Denise Schmid
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Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 05:38 PM, Denise Schmid wrote: > Thanks all for your help. > > Now, the story gets even more funny: They claim to have used PGP split-key, > then encrypted the files with a randomized key, then encrypted the key with > individual keys. > > So far so bad. But now comes the best: Th

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Denise Schmid
Thanks all for your help. Now, the story gets even more funny: They claim to have used PGP split-key, then encrypted the files with a randomized key, then encrypted the key with individual keys. So far so bad. But now comes the best: They claim that, because one of the managers wasn't able to

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread Grant Olson
On 2/28/11 2:07 AM, Denise Schmid wrote: >> It depends on what you mean by a "shared key". There is just giving a >> copy of the key to multiple people (in which case any one of them can use >> it), >> or there are various key splitting algorithms where a key is broken into a >> number of pieces,

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread M.R.
On 02/28/2011 07:07 AM, Denise Schmid wrote: ...The background of my question is that a company claims that one of their > managers has forgotten the key and therefore, they can't decrypt some files. Do you know what program was used to encrypt the files? Mark R. _

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread vedaal
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:07:03 +0100 >From: "Denise Schmid" >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: Re: Question regarding shared keys >Message-ID: <20110228070703.164...@gmx.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >Does this mean that, if

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 28, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Denise Schmid wrote: >> It depends on what you mean by a "shared key". There is just giving a >> copy of the key to multiple people (in which case any one of them can use >> it), >> or there are various key splitting algorithms where a key is broken into a >> number

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-27 Thread Denise Schmid
> It depends on what you mean by a "shared key". There is just giving a > copy of the key to multiple people (in which case any one of them can use it), > or there are various key splitting algorithms where a key is broken into a > number of pieces, and a specified subset of those pieces can come

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-27 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Denise Schmid wrote: > Hello list, > > first of all: Sorry if my question reaches the wrong list, but I have a > question someone on this list may probably answer easily. > > If a company has shared keys: How does encryption work then? Are several > owners of a sha

Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-27 Thread Denise Schmid
Hello list, first of all: Sorry if my question reaches the wrong list, but I have a question someone on this list may probably answer easily. If a company has shared keys: How does encryption work then? Are several owners of a share needed to encrypt data? I just try to find out how it works in