Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread Hardeep Singh
Hi > The OpenPGP trust model is a proper superset of the centralized hierarchical > trust model most often seen in the X.509 world. Several years ago Matt Blaze > made the observation that commercial CAs will protect you against anyone who > that CA refuses to accept money from. > Well, that may

Re: SVN version not correctly displaying

2008-05-23 Thread Kevin Hilton
$ svn info configure.ac Path: configure.ac Name: configure.ac URL: svn://cvs.gnupg.org/gnupg/branches/STABLE-BRANCH-1-4/configure.a Repository Root: svn://cvs.gnupg.org/gnupg Repository UUID: 8a63c251-dffc-0310-8ec6-d64dca2275b1 Revision: 4765 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: w

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread Graham Murray
"Hardeep Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is nothing that can prove who you say you are. State provided ID > cards only prove that you were able to convince the system that you > have a specific name. For individuals I think that too much importance is placed on identity based on name.

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 12:54 +0530, Hardeep Singh wrote: > Well, that may be true, but there are currently no options that are > significantly better. The WOT model used by GPG is better? Maybe, but > not significantly. WoT gives you more options about how to determine trust levels. This, to me, i

import sec key problem

2008-05-23 Thread Dimitri
Hello all. I am treat import my key-sec from other PC, It key was generated in OpenBSD and I need import this in winXP too. The problem is no import this successfully, ajust a screenshot. Wath is the problem? Dimitri.- http://es.geocities.com/trichotecene OpenBSD - Free, Functional & Secure --

gpg & kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have gnupg 1.4.9 installed and kmail 1.9.9 on KDE 3.5.9 when I try to go to SETTINGS-Configure kmail-Security the GpgME section is greyed out. When I hit rescan it tells me: While scanning for OpenPGP support backend GpgME: Engine /usr/bin/pgp is not installed properly While scanning for SMIME

Re: import sec key problem

2008-05-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Dimitri wrote: > The problem is no import this successfully, ajust a screenshot. > > Wath is the problem? There is no problem. The key was imported successfully. Type "gpg --edit-key " and set the key to the appropriate trust level. That's all. ___

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hardeep Singh escribió: > There is nothing that can prove who you say you are. State provided ID > cards only prove that you were able to convince the system that you > have a specific name. > > Let me know if you feel differently. > > Regards > Har

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham Murray escribió: > For individuals I think that too much importance is placed on identity > based on name. For companies it is different, it is useful to know that > the email/web site etc that purports to be from example.com is actually > from

Re: playing with cryptography...

2008-05-23 Thread reynt0
(replying to John Clizbe's post, but his full message is an attachment as read by my nice simple email software so "Reply" gives only a blank message, so I had to fiddle to get it to show like a usual quoted reply) . . . Most Class I Certificates only prove you have control of the email address.

WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir `/m/a/etc/naclient/ppcbackup

2008-05-23 Thread Josef Wolf
Hello, I am wondering what this error message WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir `/usr/local/etc/backup' is trying to tell me. This directory is owned by root:myself and has mode 750. So it is writable only by root and readable only by myself and by root. AFAICS, it is as safe as it can g

Re: gpg & kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
On Friday 23 May 2008 19:08, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri May 23 2008, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: > > > From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have gnupg 1.4.9 installed and kmail 1.9.9 on KDE 3.5.9 > > > > You need gnupg2 package for KMail to support S/MIME. > > # apt-get install gnup

Re: gpg & kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Nicholas Sushkin
On Friday 23 May 2008 14:55, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have gnupg 1.4.9 installed and kmail 1.9.9 on KDE 3.5.9 You need gnupg2 package for KMail to support S/MIME. -- Nick ___ Gnupg-us

Re: gpg & kmail

2008-05-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri May 23 2008, Nicholas Sushkin wrote: > You need gnupg2 package for KMail to support S/MIME. well, I found that you can change the path for gpg 1.4.9 using the ./configure --prefix=PATH. so I recompiled it with /usr/bin instead of the default /usr/local/bin. SO, gnupg installs by default t

Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-23 Thread Caleb Marcus
I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional layer of compression while encrypting? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part _

Re: Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 23:56 -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote: > I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data > with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid > the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional layer of compression > while encrypting? --compres

Re: Disabling compression when encrypting

2008-05-23 Thread Laurent Jumet
Hello Caleb ! Caleb Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I prefer to use external compression tools before encrypting my data > with GnuPG. Is there any way to disable compression in GnuPG to avoid > the CPU overhead of the unnecessary additional layer of compression > while encrypting? Ther