Re: Configuration for offline usage - best practice tips?

2018-02-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 23:08, jc.gnupg...@unser.net said: > Yes, that's what I plan to do, generate a subkey for each month in advance > and use this to encrypt my backups. That raises the question for us whether it will make sense to change --quick-add-key fpr [algo [usage [expire]]] to add

Re: Configuration for offline usage - best practice tips?

2018-02-23 Thread Juergen Christoffel
On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 11:15:57PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Thu 2018-02-15 21:33:05 +0100, Juergen Christoffel wrote: I'm looking for best practice tips for offline usage of GnuPG. [...] GnuPG's defaults should be fine for the common, simple backup case. However, i note that

Re: Configuration for offline usage - best practice tips?

2018-02-18 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2018-02-15 21:33:05 +0100, Juergen Christoffel wrote: > I'm looking for best practice tips for offline usage of GnuPG. What Do I > mean by offline usage? I plan to encrypt backups or files on my machines > with GnuPG and generate weekly or monthly keys for that purpose so backups > for

Re: Configuration for offline usage - best practice tips?

2018-02-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:33, jc.gnupg...@unser.net said: > implementations and standards or strong encryption in general, I expect > that a configuration for offline usage might be different from one for > general purpose encrypted communication. If you never want to use any online resource, you

Configuration for offline usage - best practice tips?

2018-02-15 Thread Juergen Christoffel
Hi folks, I'm looking for best practice tips for offline usage of GnuPG. What Do I mean by offline usage? I plan to encrypt backups or files on my machines with GnuPG and generate weekly or monthly keys for that purpose so backups for example can run unattended and simply encrypt with today's