On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 20:01, tliko...@iki.fi said:
> The result: There's a delay of several seconds every time I open the
> message and in the end my email client (Gnus) says:
I have exactly the same problem but I do it anwyat - there is not much
we can do about it. The default timeout for such lo
On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 22:29, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
> I know this wasn't addressed to me, but what the heck. I won't share my
> preferences, but this is some modestly-accurate history.
Thanks for sharing the history; here are some of my remarks.
> Twofish became part of the suite of ciphers w
> Back in 1998/1999 we were keen to have a 128 bit block cipher in
> OpenPGP. The PGP folks and me discussed this and our bets were on
> Twofish as a very promising candidate for the AES competition. Thus we
> went for that before we added AES 1.5 years later.
I was unaware GnuPG had a role in t
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 18:39, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
>> Blowfish used to be the only freely available cipher when I started with
>> gpg.
>
> ... wait, 3DES was patent-encumbered?
Not that I know. But it was old and Blowfish was everywhere (in
particular due to Schneier's book Applied Crypto).
Werner Koch [2017-10-05 09:00:18+02] wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem but I do it anwyat - there is not much
> we can do about it. The default timeout for such lookups are 2 seconds.
> You can lower this to one second using
>
> connect-quick-timeout 1
>
> in dirmngr.conf.
Thanks. That
Hi!
Matthias wrote a HOWTO for the GnuPG blog:
<https://gnupg.org/blog/20171005-gnupg-ccid-card-daemon-UbuntuPhone.html>
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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On Thu 2017-10-05 09:00:18 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem but I do it anwyat - there is not much
> we can do about it. The default timeout for such lookups are 2 seconds.
> You can lower this to one second using
>
> connect-quick-timeout 1
A more user-friendly appro
Il 05/10/2017 21:06, Daniel Kahn Gillmor ha scritto:
> gpg isn't currently constructed to do this kind of asynchronous user
> interaction, however.
But the mail client could flag the message "key retrieval failed". Then,
the delay is only on the first attempt. Unless the user un-flags that
message
