Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Ingo Klöcker
Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 08:43 schrieb Atom Smasher: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > Note that there is a difference between what page at > > http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LinuxHints/KeySigning > > says and what you say above. The page (correctly) notes that all > > tha

Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Tony Whitmore
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:29:23AM -0400, Atom Smasher wrote: > no matter what anyone tells you is or isn't adequate, you have to decide > for yourself. this may help you figure it out - > http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/121645/49/ Thanks Atom, that article was linked to from the threa

Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Tony Whitmore wrote: > Yet it's already been suggested in this thread that this represents > insufficient verification. Simple answers like "sufficient" or "insufficient" are tempting, but they utterly lack context. When it comes to these questions, you need to carefully assess your needs and th

Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Olaf Gellert
Hi all, Tony Whitmore wrote: > As I mentioned yesterday, I understand that it's my decision whether to trust > any particular piece of identification. I thought it would be worth finding > out whether there are any actual arguments for or against accepting such ID > which would help inform my

[Announce] Gpg4win 1.0.4 released

2006-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! We are pleased to announce the availibility of Gpg4win, version 1.0.4. * This version fixes a problem with several utilities like GPGee and parts of WinPT introduced with the last version. * Please make sure to subscribe to the new gpg4win announcement mailing list. We might stop in the

Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Atom Smasher
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Tony Whitmore wrote: Thanks Atom, that article was linked to from the thread suggested yesterday. It covers some interesting etiquette points, and certainly doesn't mention using a encrypted block of random data to further verify identity: "If required, they may take thi

Re: New Windows Binary?

2006-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:43, Bob Henson said: > I read some days ago on the GPGee forum that a new Windows binary would > be released to correct the change in GPG 1.4.4 that broke GPGee. Is it > around/about to appear? I have some files encrypted using GPGee and No. However, I released gpg4win 1.0

Re: New Windows Binary?

2006-07-25 Thread Bob Henson
Werner Koch wrote > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:43, Bob Henson said: > >> I read some days ago on the GPGee forum that a new Windows binary would >> be released to correct the change in GPG 1.4.4 that broke GPGee. Is it >> around/about to appear? I have some files encrypted using GPGee and > > No.

Re: Driving licence as identification and accepting signed keys without exchanging encrypted data

2006-07-25 Thread Sam Morris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:50:22 +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: > The e-mails I received were identical apart from the sender's name, so I > suspect they are using a script. I wasn't able to find anything > definitive on Google so can't be sure which script t

gpg-agent in Enigmail/Thunderbird

2006-07-25 Thread Zach Himsel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I recall some time ago I had a question as to how I can use gpg-agent in Windows for Thunderbird/Enigmail. Since there is no release of gpg-agent for Windows (without building it yourself), I had to enter in my passphrase every time TB started up (I