Re: USB tokens instead of smartcards

2005-11-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 22:55:29 +0100, Philipp Kern said: > Yeah, I got that fact. So to clarify: A USB token with a supported > smartcard in it. You may try to cut an OpenPGP card to ID-000 size. Shalom-Salam, Werner ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: back signatures

2005-11-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
David Shaw wrote: And what is the "theory" behind them,... e.g. how do they improve security? Current signing subkeys have a weakness in that they can be moved from one key to another without the key owner's approval. This means that if I sign a message with a signing subkey, someone else

Re: back signatures

2005-11-10 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > >>And what is the "theory" behind them,... e.g. how do they improve > >>security? > >> > >> > >Current signing subkeys have a weakness in that they can be moved from > >one key to another without

Re: back signatures

2005-11-10 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 09:00:56PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > >snip> > >>btw: You remember my C-only thread (I'll answer you lastest posts >>soon),... I played around a bit and read some parts of rfc2440. >>Ok when I split a key using gpgsplit I get about the fo

Re: back signatures

2005-11-10 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:22:50PM +1030, Alphax wrote: > > 0x1F signatures are truly signing a key alone. > > > > > > So is a backsig of type 0x1F then?? No, they have their own type. They are 0x19. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@g