Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 1/5/21 8:24 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:27:14AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users wrote: Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obtained enigmail for my Firefox browser

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
igmail. So for me, it is pointless. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 4 days, 13 hours, 37 minutes ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/list

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
roof. I had a realistic uncle who used to say, "You can always design a system to be fool-proof; but if you do, a damned-fool will come along. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey ^^-^^ 15:45:01 up 13 days, 21:19, 2 users, load average:

Re: Generating revocation certificate

2019-04-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
A, ELG, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )\ Shrewsbu

Re: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 2.2.8 released (CVE-2018-12020)

2018-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
r Koch (dist sig) >> >> rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2019-12-31] >> Key fingerprint = 46CC 7308 65BB 5C78 EBAB ADCF 0437 6F3E E085 6959 >> David Shaw (GnuPG Release Signing Key) >> >> rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] >> Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A 33BD 3F06 >>

Re: Break backwards compatibility already: it’s time. Ignore the haters. I trust you.

2018-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
e protected from that 90 volt ringing current. Can you imagine the redesign that would be required so I could start the gasoline engine in my Prius with a hand crank in the front? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Mac

Re: Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME

2018-05-19 Thread Jean-David Beyer
o) thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64 gnupg2-2.0.14-8.el6.x86_64 Enigmail 2.0.4 -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 09:40:01 up 2 days, 17:30, 2 users

Re: your message could not,be delivered to one or more recipients.

2017-11-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
.com. 126866 IN A 64.12.51.132 dns-02.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 205.188.157.232 dns-07.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 64.236.1.107 dns-06.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 207.200.73.80 ;; Query time: 123 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN:

your message could not,be delivered to one or more recipients.

2017-11-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
y later. __ >From where does it get port 451? My SMTP port is 465 204.29.186.9 is my ISP for e-mail: AOL. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter

Re: Counterarguments Supporting GnuPG over Off The Record (OTR)

2017-01-19 Thread Jean-David Beyer
unication, and without paper communication, we will be unable to encrypt anything. Will there be an equivalent to OpenPGP that works with telepathy? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, N

Re: about cartoon in FAQ 10.1. 'Correct, horse! Battery staple!'

2015-12-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire In Latin, that is a palindrome. It is now the name of a musical composition, and has a group of its own on Facebook. https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/510001 - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A

Re: How can it be made even easier!?

2015-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
hampered where there > aren't instructions that cover what to do when one of the steps goes > awry! > Not just doctors. My lawyer has the same problem. She really needs signed e-mails and encrypted e-mails, but has not the time to learn all about how to install and use it. --

Re: Random Seed for Generating PGP Keys

2015-05-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
was used as the y-coordinate of a plotted point. I expected to see a mess of noise, but there were, instead, stripes. Turns out there was a bug in the RNG I was using. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
it from the texinfo source and missed these escape sequences. No harm done. It did not take long to figure it out. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net

Re: generating revocation certs non-interactively

2015-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ignore the kids day after day as well as the verbal abuse got worse and worse It looks something like plain text, but I cannot figure out how to decrypt it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
and let gpg start gpg-agent as needed. This is the same procedure as used by 2.1 and which has always used with 2.0 on Windows (where use-standard-socket is the default). Salam-Shalom, Werner -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 08:15:01 up 16 days, 16:06, 2 users, load average: 5.37, 5.13, 4. 87

Re: Anything that just works easily for folks?... without knowing this stuff.

2015-03-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 09:40:01 up 8 days, 16:48, 2 users, load average: 5.03, 4.93, 4.78

Re: gpg in a cybercafé

2015-03-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
or public library. But not if I owned the cafe or worked in the library. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 14:25:01 up 6 days, 22:33, 2 users

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
in their own fields. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:00:01 up 19:21, 2 users, load average: 4.77, 4.67, 4.52 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
fixed-length and fixed-point arithmetic. Oh! Well! Memories. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:55:01 up 20:16, 2 users, load average: 4.74

Re: Recommended key size for life long key

2013-09-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
methods. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:55:01 up 10 days, 23:40, 3 users, load average: 4.76, 4.43, 4.30

Re: need help for GPG 1.2.1 binary for REHL 5.8

2013-08-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
release and that requires the following libraries: libksba-1.0.5-2.el5 pinentry-0.7.3-3.el5 pth-2.0.7-6.el5. As Peter asks, why do you want to install 1.2.1? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ab...@teamspeakusa.com actually required? I know postmas...@teamspeakusa.com is required and it must go to a real person, but is any other? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:50:01 up 2 days, 22:15, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 4.39, 4.43

Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
to do this, and I would not live long enough to do it even were I motivated to do it. Maybe Ken Thompson or Dennis Ritchie could do it, but I bet he would not. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 08/05/2013 09:23 AM, TeamSpeak Piracy wrote: Jean-David Beyer, Thank you for contacting us. This is an automated response confirming the receipt of your ticket. One of our agents will get back to you as soon as possible. For your records, the details of the ticket are listed below. When

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
an encrypted e-mail to a friend of mine who then forwards it unencrypted to someone else. The developers of GPG cannot do anything to protect against these threats. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/11/2013 12:23 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 6/10/2013 11:37 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Of course he did not seriously propose the idea as a real course of action. But it is interesting to think about. I drive a Mustang GT with enough engine work to make it genuinely dangerous

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/11/2013 12:23 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 6/10/2013 11:37 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Of course he did not seriously propose the idea as a real course of action. But it is interesting to think about. I drive a Mustang GT with enough engine work to make it genuinely dangerous

Fwd: Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Sorry, I sent it privately by mistake... Original Message Subject: Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:59:59 -0400 From: Jean-David Beyer jeandav...@verizon.net Organization: Institute for Regimented Whimsey To: Johan Wevers joh

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/10/2013 03:39 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: I just wanted to say that you have neatly encapsulated my feelings on the subject: Stupid is in vogue. My concern is that it will be for a long time to come. It is ironic that technology is, to a considerable extent, what has made it possible. So

Re: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir

2013-06-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/04/2013 03:22 PM, ira.kirsch...@sungard.com wrote: I am running on Red Hat Linux 6.4.6 What release is that? I have support from Red Hat that is up to date as of today, and it claims to be: $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) Nothing about a

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 05/28/2013 03:28 PM, Werner Koch wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 18:17, forlasa...@gmail.com said: crazy and doesn't function correctly, the house is half wood and half brick, and/Jack forgot to put locks on the doors./ Well, the mailbox at my door has no lock either and it suffers from the

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 05/26/2013 06:50 AM, Zece Anonimescu wrote: Zece Anonimescu: Robert J. Hansen: Email is dying and has been for years. Ask a college student today[...] I don't like the mass media estimates: the next big thing, the yesterday thing, the dying thing. I thought for a good ten minutes and I

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/06/2013 01:10 PM, Ryan Sawhill wrote: I wouldn't have to work at Red Hat to find your imagining of all this hilarious. No offense meant. I am not offended; just ignorant of some of the details of this. What makes the most sense: that all packages are built on a handful of central

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 11:39 AM, Stan Tobias wrote: The problem we're trying to solve here is how to ascertain originality of a software development line, IOW how to authenticate it. What I do is get my OS (a Linux distribution from Red Hat) on a DVD directly from them. It contains, along with

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 04:27 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: I have no idea how Red Hat does this, but it seems unlikely to me. It's not connected to the internet, but signs the whole repository, and each individual security update etcetera. Is there a guy who keeps going back and forth with a USB stick

Re: How insecure is using /dev/random for entropy generation?

2013-03-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/2013 10:46 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: [snip] gpg uses /dev/random. That's why key generation usually blocks due to lack of entropy if you do it right and boot a secure medium for key generation. The kernel fills /dev/random from e.g. key

Re: passing information among several users

2013-01-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 01/21/2013 11:56 AM, Rita wrote: Hello, Here is what I am trying to do in my environment. I have 6 users: maseruser and user{A,B,C,D,E} Masteruser will be generating data and I would like userA and userC be able to decypt the data and others not to. However, in the future I

Re: how vulnerable is hidden-encrypt-to

2012-08-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
the signature of this email should be OK. Hey! OpenPGP Security Info UNTRUSTED Good signature from Hauke Laging mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de Key ID: 0x3A403251 / Signed on: 08/17/2012 10:24 PM Key fingerprint: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814 - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: ideal.dll

2012-06-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ” -- Max Planck -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:3EDBB65E 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:10:01 up 13 days, 24 min, 3

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-30 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ones who paid their dues. Real communists could not afford it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:40:01 up 1 day, 2:00, 4 users, load average

There may be more to security than password length, or even its complexity.

2012-05-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v15Nbl_zG7s/T6BFiQoGDEI/AHs/U5eU7O6MG3o/s1600/security-fail.jpg -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:40:01

Re: There may be more to security than password length, or even its complexity.

2012-05-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
computer out on a couple of web sites that told my how hard it would be to crack it. One of them said more than 10 million years. I guess that one is good enough, though my current ones have two more characters. Maybe I should shorten them. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User

Re: PGP/MIME use (was Re: META)

2012-01-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
will be disappeared. The time for that has not yet come. I hope it is postponed until after I can no longer use a computer. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org

Re: PGP/MIME use (was Re: META)

2012-01-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
your posts. OK. I stand behind this post. But other than amusing myself, does it really make any difference? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
on this list carry a cell phone? --dan I carry one about half the time, but it is usually powered off unless I am expecting a call, or when I need to make one. Also about once every other month to use the GPS navigation feature. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
way. 8-( -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 10:05:01 up 19:11, 4 users, load average: 4.93, 4.98, 5.11

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 10/11/2011 05:14 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Let us assume you are the bad guy Okay. Unless you have my encrypted keys, you have to access my computer (unless you have already stolen it, in which case

Re: Why revoke a key?

2011-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
than 32 characters or longer than 32 characters. This reduces the size of the search space I must examine. Of coarse, the shorter ones can be tested faster than the longer ones. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
throw it out on the off chance there were others who hadn't noticed it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:05:02 up 5 days, 1:38, 4 users

Re: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading

2011-05-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
, such as by using gpg, will not be a defense from attacks of this kind. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:50:01 up 31 days, 21:08, 3 users, load average

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
of the donation except sometimes I do not. I do not when it is dated something late in December, but postmarked mid January or later. In that case, I use the postmark date. So people writing pre-dated or post-date checks are wasting their time. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User

Re: Keylogers

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 09:20:01 up 12 days, 12:38, 3 users, load average: 5.00, 4.67, 4.68

Re: OFF LIST - Your signed posts.

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
/ptcE0jXNH7lRCpnAmLoBXhKj4K0PnNdmBmbYpFqg =TcLe -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 11:50:01 up 12 days, 15:08, 3 users, load average: 4.66

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
it, and they will not. There has to be a better way, and I do not know what it is. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 09:10:01 up 5 days, 12:28, 3

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MFPA wrote: Hi On Thursday 21 April 2011 at 2:20:51 PM, in mid:4db02f33.5010...@verizon.net, Jean-David Beyer wrote: I do not think it is entirely not wanting to be educated. But if the education takes several hours a week to keep up

Re: Deniability [SIC]

2011-04-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ignorance may be no excuse, there is now way to be informed either. The turkeys that pass the laws do not even know that, and there is no way we could keep up even if we tried. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939

Re: This key may be unsafe

2011-03-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
believe has just recently come out). It looks as though that one is: gnupg2-2.0.14-4.el6.i686 (for my 32-bit machines); unless I am confused. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Re: how slow are 4Kbit RSA keys? [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-27 Thread Jean-David Beyer
, is this discussion not about the wrong thing? What is the message size of the messages being used to come up with the numbers on this thread? Are they realistically large (whatever that might be)? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered

Where is FAQ?

2010-07-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
that is the correct order, but a while ago there was a thread about this and I would like to find it. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:10:01 up 16 days, 1

Re: decryption failed: secret key not available

2010-07-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-server. Then notify whoever sent you the original message of the problem and to send it again with the new key. You might wish to revoke the old key-pair if you have a revocation certificate on your machine. I do not know how you lost your secret key. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered

Re: Locating GnuPG 2.0.16 RH4 binaries...

2010-07-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
at CentOS 4, the binary for it is gnupg-1.2.6-9.i386.rpm -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:45:01 up 12 days, 23:31, 3 users, load average: 4.47

Re: Locating GnuPG 2.0.16 RH4 binaries...

2010-07-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Breen Mullins wrote: * Jean-David Beyer jeandav...@verizon.net [2010-07-20 14:53 -0400]: John Espiro wrote: Greetings... My google skills must not be working lately... Can anyone help point me to the 2.0.16 binary for GnuPG / RHEL4? Thanks

Re: AUTO: Richard Hamilton is out of the office (returning 06/24/2010)

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
garbage announcements. If I understand correctly, this is done by setting the precedence of the vacation e-mail to bulk instead of something else (list?), and that mailing list programs do not send the stuff marked bulk. Is that not how mailing list programs work? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: AUTO: Richard Hamilton is out of the office (returning 06/24/2010)

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
David Smith wrote: Jean-David Beyer wrote: If I understand correctly, this is done by setting the precedence of the vacation e-mail to bulk instead of something else (list?), and that mailing list programs do not send the stuff marked bulk. Is that not how mailing list programs work

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:40:28 -0400 Jean-David Beyer jeandav...@verizon.net articulated: I see no way to do that. I have a Reply button and a Reply All button and no others. There is no such button on that screen that allows diddling

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Sunday 13 June 2010, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Ingo Klöcker wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote: Conversely, many MUAs support the reply to list function that should work correctly on this list. Perhaps so, but my Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 dies

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
originates from the USA. It would be just as rational to block mail from all IP addresses that are listed as being there. (-; Maybe France is blocking all of USA, or all of Verizon. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
to as smarthost feature in several MTAs. Yes, I did. They will not accept anything from my MTA even when I use the smarthost feature. I can use either their web site server (that I detest) or Firefox, but they will not allow sendmail even with smarthost. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, which is the latest for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:35:01 up 37 days, 30 min, 4 users, load

Re: Test mail to gnupg.u...@seibercom.net

2010-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
from the list, and it is usually too much trouble to send another reply to the list. I wish all lists were set up so a reply to a message from the list went back to the list, but there is no point asking that from a list that does things another way. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: Using the OTR plugin with Pidgin for verifying GPG public key fingerprints

2010-03-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
watching news reports. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 12:05:01 up 52 days, 13:25, 4 users, load average: 4.36, 4.36, 4.64 signature.asc

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

2010-01-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
of those will go about 25,000 miles before seizing up. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ~ ^^-^^ 10:05:01 up 4 days, 12:00, 3 users, load average

New Revocation Certificate...

2009-06-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ~ ^^-^^ 16:40:01 up 10 days, 3:29, 4 users, load average: 4.07, 4.11, 4.18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: New Revocation Certificate...

2009-06-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: | On 06/28/2009 04:44 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: | If I add a subkey to my key (e.g., because the previous one expired), do I | have to generate a new revocation certificate, or is the old one still | good? | | I'm

Re: Security Concern: Unsigned Windows Executable

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
in until he came up with Cogito, ergo sum. Which I do not think was a solution at all. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ~ ^^-^^ 08:50:01 up 69 days, 15

Re: Someone has harvested my address

2008-09-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
the memory is working correctly, and so on. It seems to be a chicken and egg problem both for software and hardware. The original problem is easy: a chicken is an egg's way of reproducing itself. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A

Re: Securely delete files...

2008-08-22 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. To make matters worse, block 100 in your example may have already been allocated to another process and it may have already written by that other process, so the computer better not overwrite it multiple times to hide all traces of the older data. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: [GnuPG-users] identical files - non-identical encrypted files

2008-08-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
- -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:25:01 up 1 day, 17:17, 5 users, load average: 4.04, 4.14, 4.22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Starting with gnupg

2008-08-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-- and the easiest way to get that is to get a copy of your secret keyring and your passphrase. But if he somehow got your private key, I do not believe he would need your passphrase. I hope you have _not_ sent your secret keyring anywhere. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V

Re: Starting with gnupg

2008-08-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Moore III wrote: Jean-David Beyer wrote: But if he somehow got your private key, I do not believe he would need your passphrase. YES! S/He _would_ need the passphrase even if in possession of the Private/Secret Key. The passphrase

Re: so how do you get others to sign your key?

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-David Beyer
not the flamy type of a person. Alex. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:45:01 up 3 days, 11:33, 4 users, load average: 4.42, 4.16, 4.06 -BEGIN

Re: what if they have my sec key?

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-David Beyer
as long as the other users of your machine are not running programs on it while you are using it. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:55:01

Re: How true can this be?

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
the game (as in sell the info to another country), not for some random blabberer. Alex - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 12:50:01 up 16 days

Which key is used when more than one are valid?

2007-06-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
? Or is this a Thunderbird question? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:45:01 up 5 days, 19:45, 5 users, load average: 4.13, 4.21, 4.30

Re: Which key is used when more than one are valid?

2007-06-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Moore III wrote: David Shaw wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: My gnupg file that I get with edit-keys myuid contains, among other things: sub 2048g/48FF0850 created: 2007-02-24 expires: 2008-02-24

Re: Donations

2007-01-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 08:40:01 up 79 days, 11:13, 3 users, load average: 4.21, 4.13, 4.04 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Trouble with enigmail and Thunderbird 1.5

2006-01-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
? Or should I find a Thunderbird newsgroup to ask? And if so, which one? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 12:55:00 up 3 days, 4:21, 5 users, load

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
it. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:00:00 up 8 days, 7:02, 4 users, load average: 4.34, 4.70, 4.51 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

To: Alaric Dailey

2005-10-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
be good for about another year. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:00:00 up 8 days, 10:02, 5 users, load average: 4.31, 4.27, 4.27

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
secure that the government will find torture to be a cheaper way of getting the information it feels it needs. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org

Re: Any way to get smaller key sizes?

2005-09-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
been stolen that will get it back, is it not? I feel pretty cynical about corporate management. Perhaps there are well managed corporations, but they must be in the minority. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine

Re: Transparent keyboards

2005-09-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
be useful as well. [1] http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/ - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 08:15:00 up 82 days, 2:11, 4 users, load average: 5.23

Re: Transparent keyboards

2005-09-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
e-mails to decrypt, saving the black hats a lot of trouble. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 08:10:00 up 81 days, 2:06, 3 users, load

Re: Transparent keyboards

2005-09-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
/kb603cl.html If I were going to put a keylogger in a computer, I would not do it in the keyboard. Why bother. Put in inside the box; have it email a report every time a newline character is typed, or queue it up until next time the machine is on line. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux

Re: --for-your-eyes-only

2005-06-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
of the person receiving it. So you really must trust, in addition to the GPG programs, the user, and that is pretty difficult, IMAO, except in certain situations. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939