Re: OT: virus on the wild?

2009-01-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Faramir wrote: > So, my first question is about if this is too much off topic to talk > here about it (I figure PGP-Basics OT can the a better place, but I > thought it was a good idea to send this message here, since it seems > it's a "big issue", and not everybody uses pgp-basics-ot). It's proba

Paperkey 1.0 released

2009-01-22 Thread David Shaw
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Given the recent paperkey discussion, I thought I'd mention that paperkey 1.0 is now out. A reasonable way to achieve a long term backup of OpenPGP (PGP, GnuPG, etc) keys is to print them out on paper. Paper and ink have amazingly long retentio

Re: OT: virus on the wild?

2009-01-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:51:23AM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Faramir wrote: > > And the second question is: Does somebody know about this virus? Is is > > as fast spreading as it looks like? > > Yes. No. Moo. Ten pounds of flax. Getting accurate intelligence > about the spread of malwar

Re: Paperkey 1.0 released

2009-01-22 Thread Charly Avital
David Shaw wrote the following on 1/22/09 10:39 AM: > Given the recent paperkey discussion, I thought I'd mention that > paperkey 1.0 is now out. [...] > Enjoy. Hi, enjoyed! Configured without flags as you indicated. checking build system type... i386-apple-darwin9.6.0 checking host system ty

Re: OT: virus on the wild?

2009-01-22 Thread reynt0
To be brief, since this is pretty far OT: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Faramir wrote: . . . And the third and last question is: why the AV detected the virus _before_ I visited the site? . . . It is easy to imagine a software automatically reviewing all browser page-loads, and, before any links are

1K file creation in PGP

2009-01-22 Thread Joel Dooris
I have had several problems with PGP command line v8.5 build 303 creating 1K files that contain nothing when decrypted. I was told by PGP tech support that it was a known issue in that version of he software and if I upgraded it would resolve the issue. My question is will GnuPG have this same

When the plain text is 128 bytes, encrypt/decrypt failed.

2009-01-22 Thread Charles Wang
Hi: I'm using libgcrypt-1.4.3. When I try to use RSA to encrypt and decrypt my data, libgcrypt failed in case. I'm very confused. So I write the following code: #include #include #include static void random_set(unsigned char * buf, size_t szbuf) { long rval; unsigned char * cur, *

Re: 1K file creation in PGP

2009-01-22 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:43:19AM -0500, Joel Dooris wrote: > I have had several problems with PGP command line v8.5 build 303 creating > 1K files that contain nothing when decrypted. I was told by PGP tech > support that it was a known issue in that version of he software and if I > upgraded i

Re: OT: virus on the wild? (it looks very suspicious to me)

2009-01-22 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I took a look at the partial file in the virus chest, and it looked very suspicious... I couldn't understand most of it, but even the names of functions and variables seems to have been randomly generated... If somebody is curious about this, we can

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.4.4 released

2009-01-22 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! The GNU project is pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt version 1.4.4. Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It is originally based on code used by GnuPG. It does not provide any implementation of OpenPGP or other protocols. Thorough unde

Re: Paperkey 1.0 released

2009-01-22 Thread Kevin Hilton
Thanks for this release. Reading the explanation on the website: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ got me thinking. Is there an explanation or description of all the metadata that is contained within the secret key? -- Kevin Hilton ___ Gn

Re: Paperkey 1.0 released

2009-01-22 Thread John Clizbe
Kevin Hilton wrote: > Thanks for this release. Reading the explanation on the website: > http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ got me thinking. Is > there an explanation or description of all the metadata that is > contained within the secret key? > RFC 4880 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rf

Re: Paperkey 1.0 released

2009-01-22 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:52:48PM -0600, Kevin Hilton wrote: > Thanks for this release. Reading the explanation on the website: > http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ got me thinking. Is > there an explanation or description of all the metadata that is > contained within the secret key?