Re: Changing the email address on an existing key...how? Should I?

2005-07-25 Thread Felix E. Klee
At Fri, 22 Jul 2005 16:32:25 -0700, mweisler wrote: What is good practice in this regard and where might I read more about it? You could create a new identity and, optionally, revoke the old one. Read more about it in the GNU Privacy Handbook. Also, keep in mind that, if your key is very old

Re: zlib inflate problem

2005-07-25 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 08:00:48PM +0400, Vladimir N. Kutinsky wrote: Hi, I am decrypting files sent to me by another user through my HTTP server. Quite often I get errors that look like the following snippet: gpg: fatal:

Re: Getting Started...

2005-07-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Monday 25 July 2005 4:06 am, Michael Nguyen wrote: Eh...something very custom for our customer base. It wouldn't be useful to anyone else. Assumption is the mother of all $^£*^ ups. :-) Basically, what I'm going to do is allow a PGP option for our users. We'll have a bunch of key

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:42:20 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: I would disagree on that. Java Card is totally programmable and if you want you can implement the complete ISO7816 command set (as far as the Sorry, this is was a misinterpretation by me. hardware permits, of course). The downside is that

Re: gpg doesn't know

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 23:58:13 +0400, Vladimir N Kutinsky said: Does anyone know what it means? gpg: CRC error; 92501E - 300D6B gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=2b) The input data is garbled. Transmission error or the usual ascii vs. binary FTP problem. Salam-Shalom, Werner

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:42:39 +0200, Felix E Klee said: Your wording implies that the cards I mentioned aren't both secure and fast. Any pointers? No, I was just not aware that they support 2k RSA and key generation in particular. My (old) specs don't say so. isn't that interesting,

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Zeljko Vrba
Felix E. Klee wrote: Huh? AFAICS, in general it is more important to have the subkeys on a smart card than the master key. After all the master key can be stored But then you cannot commit a mortal sin of using GPG remotely ;) Seriously, I think you have a very strong point in case of

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Zeljko Vrba
Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 23:42:39 +0200, Felix E Klee said: isn't that interesting, though. The point is that AFAICS PKCS#11 clearly defines an API, and perhaps it may become an ISO standard in the No it does not define a clean API. Almost everyone is using proprietary

Re: PGP and Smartcards?

2005-07-25 Thread Zeljko Vrba
Werner Koch wrote: Well for the OpenPGP card you don't need any filesystem as we onjly use the get/put data commands. Thus a simple offset,length table is what you need. Well, you know that of course. Yeah, I know that very well :) It took me a bit of time to correctly implement the