Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Todd
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:24:51PM -0500, Ryan Malayter wrote: On 5/16/07, Peter Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then only that passphrase needs to be securely stored and the secret key can be stored with standard backup procedures. I believe the originally posted question centered around

Re: [Confusion] distinction between the 2 versions 1.4.6 2.0.3

2007-05-17 Thread Casey Jones
shirish wrote: Please lemme know how to proceed further. We can also take this off-list if you feel to be more appropriate. I don't know how the list would look at this. This is the gnupg-users mailing list and we are discussing the basics of how to use gnupg so I think this is appropriate

Re: GnuPG for a small company -- Questions before I start

2007-05-17 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:08:02PM +0800, Jim Berland wrote: Hello everybody, I am going to try to set up GPG for our small company (about 15 people) and would like to ask you guys for some help. Following I will write down my thoughts on this, that I had so far. Comments would be highly

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David Shaw wrote: Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data. If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the secret key is stored on

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Ryan Malayter
On 5/17/07, Andrew Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aren't optical discs supposed to last for many decades if stored properly and almost never used? Theory and practice are often far apart. The price of CD media has dropped so low that quality is often an issue. CDfreaks has many articles about

Re: Secure text editor?

2007-05-17 Thread Ryan Malayter
On 5/17/07, Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite. That may happen as an undocumented side effect on some (or all) OS versions, and is not what the function is meant to do. The function keeps the page in memory. The OS is still free to back it up whenever it thinks it is

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:07:13AM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: David Shaw wrote: Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data. If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the secret key is

Spurious warning when using pgp compatibility modes?

2007-05-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Hi all, With sig-keyserver-url $URL in gpg.conf: $ gpg --pgp7 --detach-sign test You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for [...] gpg: can't put a preferred keyserver URL into v3 signatures Now, I know that I can't do that but I don't want to be told about it every time I sign

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
David Shaw wrote: Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data. If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the secret key is stored on becomes unusable, the paper copy can be used to restore

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ryan Malayter wrote: Aren't optical discs supposed to last for many decades if stored properly and almost never used? Theory and practice are often far apart. The price of CD media has dropped so low that quality is often an issue. CDfreaks

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal conditions. As an example, the modern paper ballot is about 2,200 years old. The reason why we know this is we keep finding them. They practically litter

Re: [Confusion] distinction between the 2 versions 1.4.6 2.0.3

2007-05-17 Thread shirish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Lemme start at the clean slate with what has happened till now. For exercises, understanding usage will be using the stable 2.0.3 release version in Ubuntu till I'm not clear in all the aspects. gpg --armor --sign --encrypt -u