Re: First release candidate for GnuPG 1.4.2 available

2005-06-06 Thread Gregor Zattler
Hi Dan, * Dan Mundy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04. Jun. 2005]: Found a problem!! Weird one though... when setting key trust with enigmail for Thunderbird, the openpgp management gives me an 'undefined error', but after this, it changes the trust as if nothing went wrong. I even was the light

Re: Passphrase Encoding and Entropy

2005-06-06 Thread Martin Geisler
Oskar L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, let's say it is known that the characters in a passphrase has been selected from the 64 ASCII characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9, # and $. This will give each character an entropy of 6 bits (log2(64)), witch if I understand correctly means that 6 of the 8 bits

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 11:36:32 +0200, Martin Geisler said: I don't know how Outlook (not Express) handles things. It won't be possible to verify a signature with Outlook due to the fact that it is not possible to get to the raw MIME headers. It might be possible to write a plugin which uses

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:45:30 +0200, Kiefer, Sascha said: Well, as far as i see there is no difference between the MIME format of rfc2015 and rfc3156. Correct, 3156 has only minor clarifications. So, what is right? RFC like: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Sascha Kiefer
Werner Koch schrieb: The first of course. Shalom-Salam, Werner Okay, perfekt. The PGP/MIME RFC states that you can first sign and then encrypt the mail. In S/MIME it is allowed to first encrypt and then sign the message. Do you think it's feasible to do the same in PGP/MIME? I think it

Re: GnuPG Clearsign vs. PGP/MIME Signing

2005-06-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 16:16:54 +0200, Sascha Kiefer said: The PGP/MIME RFC states that you can first sign and then encrypt the mail. Doing this on the MIME level allows you to easily strip the encryption layer while leaving the signature intact. In S/MIME it is allowed to first encrypt and then

Re: Corruption of KeyRing (possible WinPT related?)

2005-06-06 Thread Timo Schulz
On Mon Jun 06 2005; 10:39, Peter Schott wrote: Current running WinPT and the Outlook plugin. Those would be the only programs I can think of that would be touching the keyring. As I said, WinPT never writes the files directly. I heard about one or two where something similar happened, but