Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
I am pretty sure the answer to this question is no, but I thought I'd ask just in case. I've attended a conference for the last 2 years where there was a PGP key signing. Several of the people who signed my key last year were present again this year, and sent me signatures again. The

Re-signing keys with higher owner trust

2013-03-02 Thread Davíð Steinn Geirsson
Hi all, I signed a few keys recently using --edit-key and the 'trust' command, which did not ask me how well I had verified the users identity, but proceeded to generate a 'sig' signature on the keys. I've since found out I now need to use the --ask-cert-level option to get this prompt. As I did

Re: Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2/03/13 7:14 PM, Doug Barton wrote: I am pretty sure the answer to this question is no, but I thought I'd ask just in case. I've attended a conference for the last 2 years where there was a PGP key signing. Several of the people who signed

Re: Re-signing keys with higher owner trust

2013-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/01/2013 03:37 PM, Dav■￰ Steinn Geirsson wrote: | Hi all, | | I signed a few keys recently using --edit-key and the 'trust' command, | which did not ask me how well I had verified the users identity, but | proceeded to generate a 'sig'

Re: Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/02/2013 01:20 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: | On 2/03/13 7:14 PM, Doug Barton wrote: | | I am pretty sure the answer to this question is no, but I | thought I'd ask just in case. I've attended a conference for the | last 2 years where there was a

Re: [Announce] PGP for zLinux [full info]

2013-03-02 Thread Nicholas Bayle
Additionally, there exists PGP for z/OS from Symantec. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: On Fri, 1 Mar 2013 17:04, gcal...@br.ibm.com said: I have sent an email earlier requesting information about the best PGP version to install in a zLinux server.

Re: Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2/03/13 8:51 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 03/02/2013 01:20 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: I can think of two reasons why there may be some value in including the second signatures. The first being if you have added a new UID to your key and the new

Re: PGP for zLinux [full info]

2013-03-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2/03/13 3:04 AM, gcal...@br.ibm.com wrote: Hello, I have sent an email earlier requesting information about the best PGP version to install in a zLinux server. Please don't attempt to post to gnupg-annou...@gnupg.org. While your messages

Re: key length for smart card key generation

2013-03-02 Thread Crypto Stick
Am 01.03.2013 20:10, schrieb Branko Majic: ... Now to see if there's any way of using the OpenPGP card through PKCS#11 :) Try the PKCS#11 framework OpenSC. It supports the OpenPGP Card (and Crypto Stick) since version 0.13. ___ Gnupg-users mailing

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-03-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 3/2/13 11:06 AM, Anonymous wrote: The installation problem takes care of the other. Hushmail users need not know any more than yahoo users when opening an account. A HM user may not even be aware that PGP is in play, or what PGP is. At this point I'm giving up on this conversation. It's

Re: Any value to duplicate signatures?

2013-03-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 02-03-2013 5:14, Doug Barton escribió: ... The signatures are from the same keys, same certification level, everything. The only thing different is the date of the signature (obviously). So the question is, what value, if any, would there

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-03-02 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
On 02/25/2013 03:20 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: Where does this idea that a business case must be recognized by all suppliers for an entire industry in a whole country before it works? No one, but your statement seemed to be a severe overgeneralization. You're the one that said

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-03-02 Thread Anonymous
Figuring out how to install an app is not the problem. Figuring out how to *use OpenPGP* is the problem. The app is not the same as the amount of specialized knowledge required to use the app successfully. The installation problem takes care of the other. Hushmail users need not know any more

Re: US banks that can send PGP/MIME e-mail

2013-03-02 Thread reynt0
On Sat, 2 Mar 2013, Anonymous wrote: . . . It's really not a good time to attempt to prop these guys up, when every economy in the world is suffering acutely from their colossal and aggregate incompetence. Not to mention the situations where available intelligence was used to do various