Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Laurent Jumet
Hello ! Is there a way to check the signature below with GnuPG? AD> This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. AD> --===1956155648== AD> Content-Type: multipart/signed; AD> protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; AD> boundary="ms010301

Q: List format with --with-colons option

2005-09-28 Thread Bernard
Hi all I am writing a basic front end with limited gpg functionality. My knowledge of gpg is not great and as a start I need some help with the list format of --list-secret-keys and --list-public-keys. I found that the --with-colons option returns the most details and appears to be more machine r

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Alaric Dailey
Laurent Jumet wrote: Hello ! Is there a way to check the signature below with GnuPG? AD> This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. AD> --===1956155648== AD> Content-Type: multipart/signed; AD> protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; AD> boundar

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alaric Dailey wrote: > considering this > > https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000551.html > > why would you bother with anything less than 2048 bit keys. > In there, it says, in part: "If so, that means most intelligence agencies ca

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Laurent Jumet
Hello ! Alaric Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AD> No, this is an S/MIME signature, basically SSL technology for emails. AD> as it appears much cleaner in modern email clients than PGP. But it AD> appears MUCH cleaner than PGP, and and modern email clients validate AD> the signatures automatic

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Olaf Gellert
Alaric Dailey wrote: > No, this is an S/MIME signature, basically SSL technology for emails. as > it appears much cleaner in modern email clients than PGP. But it > appears MUCH cleaner than PGP, and and modern email clients validate the > signatures automatically, and without additional software

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Jason Barrett
Thanks for the responses, all. Good stuff. Alaric wrote: "considering this https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000551.html why would you bother with anything less than 2048 bit keys." I'm inclined to agree with you, from a security standpoint. I appreciate you sending thi

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Barrett wrote: > In a nutshell, I'm encrypting data entered via a website and storing it > in a database for later retrieval and decryption by real-time user > programs. I don't want to give up the value that the PGP brand adds to > the product,

Re: Q: List format with --with-colons option

2005-09-28 Thread Pawel Shajdo
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:39:22PM +1200, Bernard wrote: > I found that the --with-colons option returns the most details and > appears to be more machine readable but I don't know what some fields > mean. > > Where would I find documentation about this? see doc/DETAILS file in source distribution

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:21:57PM -0400, Jason Barrett wrote: > I am using GPG for encryption of sensitive information in a > database. Some members of the development team are concerned about > the space taken up by strings encrypted with 1024-bit keys You may want to look into elliptic curves

Newbie Help

2005-09-28 Thread Stephen D. Scotti, M.D.
Hi, Kind of a newbie to gpg. I discovered it while using UBUNTU linux and then went back to windows to see how to implement it there. I've got the Mozilla Enigmail extension and I downloaded the 1.4.2 privacy guard from GNU and installed it. It seems to be partially working in the it will decod

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:29:40AM -0400, Jason Barrett wrote: > Yes, but it's almost impossible to answer this because it's not clear > what you're doing. Are you storing the keys or the results? 1024 bit > keys with what algorithm? The only key type that is locked to 1024 > bits is DS

Re: Newbie Help

2005-09-28 Thread Neil Williams
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 4:01 pm, Stephen D. Scotti, M.D. wrote: > Hi, > > Kind of a newbie to gpg. I discovered it while using UBUNTU linux Did you generate your own key? (with revocation certificate kept safe!) http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_doc/startgnupg.html#generate > will decode in

proper syntax for decryption using session key ?

2005-09-28 Thread vedaal
have been trying to decrypt a message using the session key, but can't get it to work, (am using gnupg 1.4.2 at the command line) started by encrypting a file to a test key (and also to my default key), saving the file as c:\r\s.txt and decrypting with the option of --show-session-key here is

Re: proper syntax for decryption using session key ?

2005-09-28 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-09-28 14:09 -0700]: > C:\>gpg --override-session-key > string1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt > > gpg --override-session-key > string2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt > > gpg --override-session-key > string`1568A7

re: proper syntax for decryption using session key ?

2005-09-28 Thread vedaal
Nicolas Rachinsky wrote Thu Sep 29 00:22:49 CEST 2005 >> what is the correct syntax to get this to work? >I would try it without 'string'. Thanks! that worked, but needed the algorithm identifier before the string (here is the form that worked:) gpg --override-session-key 2:1568A79A26ABCB75C

session key curiosity ???

2005-09-28 Thread vedaal
now that have finally gotten decryption with the session key to work ;-), discovered something very curious ... this was the 'good' command with the session key string: gpg --override-session-key 2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt when retyping, i accidentally change

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Johan Wevers
Jason Barrett wrote: >I'm inclined to agree with you, from a security standpoint. I appreciate >you sending this as it gives me some 'ammunition' against colleagues of >mine who argue that the additional storage taken up by encrypted data >trumps the security of a long cryptography key. However,

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Alphax
Laurent Jumet wrote: > Hello ! > > Is there a way to check the signature below with GnuPG? > Possibly with GnuPG 1.9... I did some fiddling with the raw message, if you remove the MIME seperators inserted by mailman and replace them with the MIME lines in the original message (the Content-