Safely remove gnupg 1.4 without damaging gnugp 2 on Mac OS?

2014-01-24 Thread tomasio
Dear all, I have GnuPG 1.4.11 left over from a former installation. Since I upgraded to GnuPG 2.0.22 during the installation of GPG-Suite for Mac OS (10. 8. 5 – Mountain Lion) I do not need the older version. Is it possible to remove it without hurting my keyrings? Thank you in advance for your

Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-01-24 Thread arne renkema-padmos
On 23/01/14 17:27, Werner Koch wrote: is anyone interested in a BoF at FOSDEM on February 1 or 2? Anything special to put on the agenda? How long should we plan 30, 45 or 60 minutes? Sound like a good plan. My preference would be the 1st of February around lunch. Cheers, arne -- Arne

Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-01-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:28, arne.renkema-pad...@cased.de said: Sound like a good plan. My preference would be the 1st of February around lunch. Well, the BoF rooms are assigned on a first come first served base. Thus we can't sign up for a certain time. I am fine with Saturday, but better not

his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread shm...@riseup.net
what are the factors involved in creating such discrepancies with folks' public key lengths ? i mean, some people's are 5 monitors high where as the other joe has seemingly created a similar key and that key is one half a monitor in 'monitor' height what does all this mean ? how have people such

Re: his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:24 PM, shm...@riseup.net shm...@riseup.net wrote: what are the factors involved in creating such discrepancies with folks' public key lengths ? As far as I can tell, the two major factors that affect the size of public keys are: 1. Key length. (That is, a 4096-bit key

Re: his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread Steve Jones
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:24:14 +1100 shm...@riseup.net shm...@riseup.net wrote: what are the factors involved in creating such discrepancies with folks' public key lengths ? i mean, some people's are 5 monitors high where as the other joe has seemingly created a similar key and that key is

Re: Revocation certificates [was: time delay unlock private key.]

2014-01-24 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 24.01.2014, Leo Gaspard wrote: Actually, this is something I never understood. Why should people create a revocation certificate and store it in a safe place, instead of backing up the main key? Because a backup only makes sense when it's stored in a diffrent place than the key itself:

Re: his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 1/24/2014 8:42 AM, Pete Stephenson wrote: As far as I can tell, the two major factors that affect the size of public keys are: 1. Key length. (That is, a 4096-bit key will be larger than a 2048-bit or 1024-bit key.) 2. Number of signatures on the key. A brand-new key will be considerably

Re: his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread shm...@riseup.net
Steve Jones: On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 00:24:14 +1100 shm...@riseup.net shm...@riseup.net wrote: what are the factors involved in creating such discrepancies with folks' public key lengths ? i mean, some people's are 5 monitors high where as the other joe has seemingly created a similar key

Re: his public key is 5 monitors high, and her same key is 1 ?

2014-01-24 Thread shm...@riseup.net
Pete Stephenson: On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:24 PM, shm...@riseup.net shm...@riseup.net wrote: what are the factors involved in creating such discrepancies with folks' public key lengths ? As far as I can tell, the two major factors that affect the size of public keys are: 1. Key length.

Re: Revocation certificates [was: time delay unlock private key.]

2014-01-24 Thread Leo Gaspard
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 04:38:19PM -0800, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Well... I don't know how you type With a nine-volt battery, a paperclip, and a USB cable that has only one end -- the other is bare wires. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to do the initial handshake, but once you've

Re: Revocation certificates

2014-01-24 Thread Leo Gaspard
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:47:15AM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: [...] the usefulness of revocation certificate, just the advice always popping out to generate a revocation certificate in any case, without thinking of whether it would be useful. Okay, that is a different thing. I

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-24 Thread Steve Jones
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:15:40 -0500 Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: There are already systems that make use of the flexibility in this field. For example SSH hosts can publish their RSA host key in an OpenPGP certificate using the monkeysphere (i'm a contributor to the

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-24 Thread Hans-Christoph Steiner
I think it makes a lot of sense to be able to associate more things with OpenPGP keys. I'm particularly interested in seeing OTR keys and XMPP identities in OpenPGP keys. .hc On 01/23/2014 05:50 PM, Steve Jones wrote: I've been thinking about UIDs in keys, rfc4880 section 5.1 says that by

Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-01-24 Thread arne renkema-padmos
On 24/01/14 13:03, Werner Koch wrote: On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 23:28, arne.renkema-pad...@cased.de said: Sound like a good plan. My preference would be the 1st of February around lunch. Well, the BoF rooms are assigned on a first come first served base. Thus we can't sign up for a certain

Re: BoF at FOSDEM ?

2014-01-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:14, arne.renkema-pad...@cased.de said: My personal pet-problem is the usability of tools like GPG. Okay, thus we have - Report on current keyserver work [Kristian] - Make GPG invisible to the user [Arne] - ECC and GnuPG progress [Werner] Shalom-Salam, Werner

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-24 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 01/24/2014 12:48 PM, Steve Jones wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:15:40 -0500 Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: http://web.monkeysphere.info/ This looks pretty cool, and does cover some of the things I've been thinking about. I've been wondering about communications

Re: Non email addresses in UID

2014-01-24 Thread Steve Jones
On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 17:16:28 -0500 Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: what do you mean complete connection security via OpenPGP? OpenPGP is not a stream-based communications protocol, it's a specification of a message format and a certificate format. Inventing a new