Armor key - X.501

2010-12-08 Thread Mohan Radhakrishnan
Hi, What is the standard that the GPG armor key is compliant with ? X.501 ? Thanks, Mohan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Armor key - X.501

2010-12-08 Thread David Shaw
On Dec 8, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote: Hi, What is the standard that the GPG armor key is compliant with ? X.501 ? RFC-4880 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880). See section 6 in particular for how the armor is formed, and sections 4 and 11 for what goes into the

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2010-12-08 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 12/8/10 3:20 PM, Hank Ivy wrote: What should I take? How should I organize, and protect the IDs? For me, I bring a passport and a driver's license. If anyone tells me that's not enough for me!, well, okay: it's not enough for them. There are plenty of other people at the keysigning party,

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2010-12-08 Thread David Shaw
On Dec 8, 2010, at 3:20 PM, Hank Ivy wrote: I moved to a small town in a new state for personal reasons. For work I telecommuted as an independent consultant. A computer user group I joined recently is going to be holding a key signing party. NOBODY has met me more than three times,

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2010-12-08 Thread James P. Howard, II
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:20, Hank Ivy hank...@hot.rr.com wrote: What should I take?  How should I organize, and protect the IDs? Take two. A driver's license and a passport would be best, though one probably authenticated you for the other. To protect them, put them in your wallet or pocket.

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2010-12-08 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Mittwoch 08 Dezember 2010 22:54:02 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: For me, I bring a passport and a driver's license. If anyone tells me that's not enough for me!, well, okay: it's not enough for them. That should not be a question of personal attitude but of the signing policy for the

Re: Store revoke cert. in symmetric file?

2010-12-08 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 07-12-2010 16:32, David Shaw escribió: On Dec 7, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Chris Poole wrote: Why not just store the GPG encrypted file directly with the strong passphrase that I know ? I'm happy to do that, I'm just trying to keep the very

multiple subkeys and key transition

2010-12-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, I am giving very serious thought to creating new keys and doing a (long-term) transition to them. This is partly to respond to known flaws with SHA-1 and take advantage of SHA-256 and higher. There is currently a push to move away from SHA-1 usage by the end of 2010, although it