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2012-06-14 Thread Sam Tuke
How is STEED progressing? What is the current status of the project? Best, Sam. -- Sam Tuke British Team Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe IM : samt...@jabber.fsfe.org Latest UK Free Software news: uk.fsfe.org Is freedom important to you? Join the fellowship.fsfe.org signature.asc De

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11.06.2012 23:29, Sam Smith wrote: > I did not mean to imply that all other GPG GUIs are no good. GnuPG > Shell is a fine app and there is much to like about it. I did (if I > remember correctly) have trouble figuring out how to use it to list > sig

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, wrote: > > From: Mika Suomalainen > To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org > Cc: > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:29:17 +0300 > Subject: Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 6/14/12 12:06 PM, Avi wrote: If I remember correctly, Werner prefers that this list restrict itself to the discussion of FOSS only... Not exactly. He's never voiced any dissatisfaction with my mentioning of Symantec's PGP product, for instance, but that may be because I'm use PGP in a spi

GPGME C# bindings?

2012-06-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I'm looking at putting together a mockup of something (if all goes well, it will ultimately be ISC-licensed), and find myself needing C# bindings for GPGME. Now, there already exist a handful of projects that claim to provide this but they all seem to have the same problems: they're dormant proje

RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Currently, users have a public keyring containing certificates acquired from many different sources. These certificates are often out of date, sometimes in minor ways, sometimes in large ones. Since many users now have always-on and fairly reliable internet connectivity, perhaps it makes sens

Re: RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-14 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 14, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Currently, users have a public keyring containing certificates acquired from > many different sources. These certificates are often out of date, sometimes > in minor ways, sometimes in large ones. Since many users now have always-on > and

Re: RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:48, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > We already have something similar to this in --auto-key-retrieve, and > the same warnings about that option probably also apply here. The > principal difference would seem to be that auto-key-retrieve only > fetches certificates that are not

Re: Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10

2012-06-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:09, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > proprietary programs, but saying "proprietary program X does Y and the > FOSS alternative doesn't, I really like Y, I'd like it if we could do > Y" is just fine. Right. Note that the FSF actually forbids us maintainers to mention proprietar

Re: RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
1) If the keyserver (of whatever type) isn't reachable... As you say, easy to solve: agreed. 2) Concern that enough people turning this feature on would add significant load to the keyserver network... An open question and one we'd need to address: agreed. 3) It leaks information more than

GnuPG GUIs (was Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10)

2012-06-14 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 6/14/12 12:09 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > So, let's move this discussion about proprietary programs (GPGShell) > into a direction that's useful to FOSS programs. What is it about > GPGShell that you really like? What makes it superior to

Re: GnuPG GUIs (was Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10)

2012-06-14 Thread Avi
I installed GPG4Win 2.1.1beta, GPA, and GnuPGShell. GnuPGShell cannot read my keyrings; I don't even see an option where I can point to a keyring, only import ASCII or PGP style individual keys. GPA has more flexibility, but there isn't the full suite of options (clean, minimize, or just plain-old

Re: GnuPG GUIs (was Need a GUI for e ncrypt/decrypt in Ubuntu 11.10)

2012-06-14 Thread Avi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 GPA does not allow me to edit gpg.conf; then again, the system seems to be rather different from 1.4.x, so my difficulties may be due more to my lack of education than any shortcomings in software. Another, minor, issue is that GPA does not seem to h

Re: RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-14 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 14, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> 1) If the keyserver (of whatever type) isn't reachable... > > As you say, easy to solve: agreed. > >> 2) Concern that enough people turning this feature on would add >> significant load to the keyserver network... > > An open question and