air gap private key?

2013-02-04 Thread refreshing
I could air gap my private key. Put it on a machine with no network access. Then replying to mails becomes awful? This requires transferring incoming mail onto a usb device as text file and put it into the other machine. Write an answer, sign and put it back on usb an finally put it back on the

Re: air gap private key?

2013-02-04 Thread Hubert Kario
On Monday 04 of February 2013 07:26:48 refresh...@tormail.org wrote: I could air gap my private key. Put it on a machine with no network access. Then replying to mails becomes awful? This requires transferring incoming mail onto a usb device as text file and put it into the other machine.

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-04 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi anonymous writer, Smartcard or cryptostick will not help in my situation. might a SmartCard with reader that has its own pinpad help? http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch02s02.html#id2519120 Olav - -- The Enigmail Project -

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-04 Thread refreshing
Hi anonymous writer, Hello! Smartcard or cryptostick will not help in my situation. might a SmartCard with reader that has its own pinpad help? http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch02s02.html#id2519120 No. It does not give certainty what am I actually signing. The virus could

Re: air gap private key?

2013-02-04 Thread refreshing
On Monday 04 of February 2013 07:26:48 refresh...@tormail.org wrote: I could air gap my private key. Put it on a machine with no network access. Then replying to mails becomes awful? This requires transferring incoming mail onto a usb device as text file and put it into the other machine.

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 02/04/2013 02:26 AM, refresh...@tormail.org wrote: Are there any external gpg signing devices to make gpg more resistant against remote control viruses? No. There are none, nor will there be. You absolutely must retain control of the processing hardware GnuPG runs upon. If you don't have