Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:43, ds...@jabberwocky.com said: > I haven't looked at the fine details yet, but on the surface it seems > like they're aiming at Gmail (mainly, but not solely). Interesting. This is in contrast to a recent online article in the German c't magazine [1] where the author clai

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 04/06/14 10:32 +0200 - Werner Koch: >> I haven't looked at the fine details yet, but on the surface it seems >> like they're aiming at Gmail (mainly, but not solely). > >Interesting. This is in contrast to a recent online article in the >German c't magazine [1] where the author claims that Goog

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Mark Rousell
On 04/06/2014 09:32, Werner Koch wrote: > Maybe Google now fears that users move away from Gmail and to mitigate > that they provide end-to-end so that they still have access to their > user's traffic pattern. Oh perhaps they simply take the view that very few people will use it (sadly). It will g

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/04/2014 01:58 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 04/06/2014 09:32, Werner Koch wrote: Maybe Google now fears that users move away from Gmail and to mitigate that they provide end-to-end so that they still have access to their user's traffic pattern. Oh perhaps they simply take the view that very

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Mark Rousell wrote: > On 04/06/2014 09:32, Werner Koch wrote: >> Maybe Google now fears that users move away from Gmail and to mitigate >> that they provide end-to-end so that they still have access to their >> user's traffic pattern. > > Oh perhaps they simply tak

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread David Shaw
On Jun 4, 2014, at 4:32 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 04:43, ds...@jabberwocky.com said: > >> I haven't looked at the fine details yet, but on the surface it seems >> like they're aiming at Gmail (mainly, but not solely). > > Interesting. This is in contrast to a recent online a

RE: Engimail & Thunderbird

2014-06-04 Thread Michael B. Harris
I have not been able to use OpenPGP since I upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 on my 64 bit Laptop. Can anyone help? I have other computers where PGP works well: 32 bit Dell B130 with Xubuntu 12.4, Windows 7 desktop -- Sincerely; Michael B. Harris MRAC Secretary Linux User# 1063 ___

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Suspekt
I have read the article too but I have to disagree. People using gmail will probably be logged in their google account all (most of the) the time. So google knows what they're searching, watching, listen to music, what the are talking about(g+) and so on. I think google has so massive data abou

Re: Engimail & Thunderbird

2014-06-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 06/04/2014 12:53 PM, Michael B. Harris wrote: > I have not been able to use OpenPGP since I upgraded to > Ubuntu 14.04 on my 64 bit Laptop. > > Can anyone help? If you can state the problems you're seeing more specifically, we can probably help better. Can you describe your system in more det

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Rejo Zenger
++ 04/06/14 19:16 +0200 - Suspekt: >IIRC google doesn't scan cooporate mails and students mail (if the school or >university participates in googles programs) because of data protection >issues, at least in europe. No. Google announced it will no longer do content scanning for advertising purpos

list packets output & other misc

2014-06-04 Thread shm...@riseup.net
in a test key i have 4 subkeys; 2 for sign and 2 for encrypt gnupg automatically chooses the most recently created 's' and 'e' subkeys to sign and encrypt a file how can i mandatorily specify using other subkeys for the same primary key for 's' or 'e' either on command line or in an email client

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread a k'wala
On 06/04/2014 08:45 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: > Personally I won't use any browser plugin that operates on > cryptographic material inside it's own process. Instead I would expect > it to delegate such operations to something similar to the GnuPG agent. I happened to come across one that us

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread Thomas Harning Jr.
With Chrome's relatively new native-messaging-api system, it wouldn't be terribly hard to spawn off external processes to do gpg work. You just have to implement a JSON messaging api between an extension and platform-specific executable. On Jun 4, 2014 7:31 PM, "a k'wala" wrote: > On 06/04/2014

Re: Google releases beta OpenPGP code

2014-06-04 Thread a k'wala
On 06/03/2014 10:43 PM, David Shaw wrote: > Likely of interest to this group: > > > http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/06/making-end-to-end-encryption-easier-to.html > > Briefly, it's a Chrome extension for doing OpenPGP. It can import and use > RSA keys generated elsewhere, but onl