Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-18 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
raf via Gnupg-users wrote: > Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > > > > * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away. > > > Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never > > > arrives. So what do we do in the

Re: I deleted 80 % of my keyring, but my keybox file isn't shrinking

2019-07-18 Thread ilf
Thanks, that explains it. And the faketime gpgsm command worked (after installing faketime). But that's a hack, and users should not have to do this. Especially since GnuPG 2.1 defauls to keybox and more people recommend it with of the recent flooding issues. I opened an issue to track

Fresh certificate marked as expired / messed-up certificate chain pulling expired root cert in gpgsm

2019-07-18 Thread Dr. Thomas Orgis
Hi, I'm trying to switch to my third S/MIME cert after two earlier expired ones in gpgsm. The private key and the certificate are valid into the year 2022, but gpgsm (version 2.2.15) tells me this: shell$ LANG=C gpgsm --sign -u 0x310C60AF […] gpgsm: certificate is good gpgsm: intermediate

Re: [Sks-devel] Fwd [from schleuder dev team]: Signature-flooded keys: current situation and mitigation

2019-07-18 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 18 Jul 2019, at 17:46, Todd Fleisher wrote: > > "Unfortunately, there is currently no > good way to distribute revocations that doesn't also reveal the revoked > identity itself. We don't want to distribute revoked identities, so we can't > distribute the identity at all." We can kill two

Re: I deleted 80 % of my keyring, but my keybox file isn't shrinking

2019-07-18 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:41, i...@zeromail.org said: > But the keybox file didn't get any smaller: Good catch. In gpg we have not implenteted the compression run: /* FIXME: Do a compress run if needed and no other user is currently using the keybox. */ However, in gpgsm this is

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-18 Thread Mirimir via Gnupg-users
On 07/18/2019 04:21 AM, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote: > On 18/07/2019 05:40, Mirimir via Gnupg-users wrote: >> When I need to share stuff among GUI-less VPS, with no Javascript >> capable browser, I sometimes use pastebins. I encrypt with GnuPG, and >> then base64 encode. > > I love pastebins. 

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-18 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
On 18/07/2019 05:40, Mirimir via Gnupg-users wrote: When I need to share stuff among GUI-less VPS, with no Javascript capable browser, I sometimes use pastebins. I encrypt with GnuPG, and then base64 encode. I love pastebins. I think they are an excellent "first serious web app" type of

Re: I deleted 80 % of my keyring, but my keybox file isn't shrinking

2019-07-18 Thread Michael Kesper
Hi all, On 18.07.19 12:19, ilf wrote: > Same on a different box with a different keyring. I trimmed it down from > ~1250 keys to ~350 keys, but the size of pubring.kbx remains 19M. > > Does --delete really mean *delete* with keybox? > > ilf: >> This got my keyring down from 4.600 to 1.000