On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:33:58 -0500, John Clizbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> We are new to GPG and we have used gpg4win 1.0.5 to install the
>> programs on Windows XP Pro PC:s. Some years ago we used PGP 7, but now
>> it turns out that we cannot get it to work on our XP-Pro PC
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:46:07 +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Clizbe escribe:
>> Just copy the keyring files.
>
>I store my private keyring and a public keyring containing only my
>public key on a pendrive, then in your gpg.conf:
>
>keyring /path/to/pendrive/pubring
Hi all.
Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
questions. Ready?
1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
it, would this represent a potential security concern?
2). Would I have to copy and paste encrypted messages received via
email to a
On Sunday 20 August 2006 6:31 am, Caitlin wrote:
> Hi all.
Hi and welcome :-)
> Ok. I'm quite interested in GnuPG but I felt compelled to ask a few
> questions. Ready?
>
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern
Jonathan Rockway escribe:
> I would recommend that you don't do that. What if you lose the drive?
> Then your private key is compromised. Do you have a revocation
> certificate in a safe location? If not, you can't even tell anyone that
> your private key has been compromised! Not good!
Sure!
Robert J. Hansen escribe:
> Speaking for myself, I have doubts about the long-term security of
> RSA/1024. I much prefer RSA/2048 instead. Thus, the OpenPGP card fails
> to meet my own security policy... whereas storing a copy of my private
> key on my USB dongle, with a high-security passphrase,
Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
We can't answer this question with a 'yes' or a 'no'. Decisions about
security are up to you. We can hopefully give you some questions which
will help yo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: RIPEMD160
On 08/20/2006 07:31 AM, Caitlin wrote:
> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
Your keyring would be stored in your personal home dir, if you have
installed XP
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> A smartcard is very convenient as far as it's a multi application
> device, so you can store much other info apart from GnuPG keys,
> i.e. Mozilla passwords or such.
... I'm sorry, I'm scratching my head over here trying to figure out how
a flash drive doesn't als
Bo Berglund escribe:
> So how does one do this on Windows
I use Cygwin's gnupg so gpg.conf is at ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf just as usual
on a UNIX computer.
Below my gpg.conf, these are lines used on both Linux and Windows:
default-cert-check-level 3
default-recipient-self
keyserver pgp.rediris.es
k
Hello,
Not directly related to GnuPG, but does anyone here know the book
"Handbook of Applied Cryptography" fromn A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschoot
and S.A. Vanstone, printed in 1996? I found it on eDonkey and wanted to
know if someone knows if it is advisable. It appears quite mathematical
in its
Qed wrote:
>No, since the security issue is not related to the underlying
>cryptographic algorithms(e.g.: some time ago ElGamal signatures were
>discovered to be weak, so in newer version of GnuPG the generation of
>such keys is disabled).
They were not weak, there was an implementation error in
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:08:37PM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Not directly related to GnuPG, but does anyone here know the book
> "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" fromn A.J. Menezes, P.C. van Oorschoot
> and S.A. Vanstone, printed in 1996? I found it on eDonkey and wanted to
> know if someone k
Hi.
Thanks for all of the responses. I'll be purchasing:
'PGP & GPG Email for the Practical Paranoid'
By NoStarch Press ($24.95)
next week.
Thanks,
~Caitlin
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