FAQ? Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-18 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Montag, 16. Dezember 2013 20:42:54 schrieb Werner Koch: May I suggest to read the archives of just a few weeks to collect the reasons why suggestions of using SHA-512 are missing the point.  Some folks here must have bleeding fingertips from repeating the arguments over and over. What

Re: FAQ? Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:09, bernh...@intevation.de said: What about placing this as an FAQ in the wiki.gnupg.org? We have a FAQ which answers a lot of questions around key sizes in “Advanced Topics” section. If something is missing it can easily be added. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 00:11, adrela...@riseup.net said: compatibility, you can never reduce complexity. Less complexity means more simplicity, thus perhaps more usability. In my experience, projects [ You may want to start getting rid of software which is run on your computer without you being

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-17 Thread adrelanos
Robert J. Hansen: We think... If you're writing on behalf of a group, I would love to know the name of the group and the names of its members. Otherwise, I can only assume you are suffering a mental illness and are speaking for the multiple voices in your head -- either that or else

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-17 Thread vedaal
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013 at 12:49 PM, adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net wrote: The person who agreed with me: carlo von lynX Also the autor of 15 reasons not to start using PGP. [1] Cheers, adrelanos [1] http://secushare.org/PGP = All of his reasons are easily countered. In the

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
All of his reasons are easily countered. Looking over it, my impression is that his principal criticism is, It is not all things to all people. To which my response is -- nothing in this world is, so why should OpenPGP be any different? OpenPGP provides a useful set of capabilities and

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-17 Thread adrelanos
are easily countered. I don't want to discuss them here in this thread to avoid distraction. My topic: please give us safer defaults for gnupg I only provided that as a reference so you're sure which one I am talking about should there be multiple persons with that name

please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread adrelanos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi! [This was originally planed as an open letter, but I thought it might be better to hear your arguments beforehand.] We think gnupg still is the most used and most important encryption tool in the Free Software community. [1] But there is a big

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:37, adrela...@riseup.net said: [This was originally planed as an open letter, but I thought it might be better to hear your arguments beforehand.] May I suggest to read the archives of just a few weeks to collect the reasons why suggestions of using SHA-512 are missing

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
We think... If you're writing on behalf of a group, I would love to know the name of the group and the names of its members. Otherwise, I can only assume you are suffering a mental illness and are speaking for the multiple voices in your head -- either that or else perhaps you're

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread adrelanos
Werner Koch: On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:37, adrela...@riseup.net said: [This was originally planed as an open letter, but I thought it might be better to hear your arguments beforehand.] May I suggest to read the archives of just a few weeks to collect the reasons why suggestions of using

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread adrelanos
Robert J. Hansen: We think... If you're writing on behalf of a group, I would love to know the name of the group and the names of its members. Understandable. At the moment it's just one person sharing that opinion. [Didn't ask many more yet.] I asked if I am allowed to tell names, probably

Re: please give us safer defaults for gnupg

2013-12-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 12/16/2013 6:11 PM, adrelanos wrote: When I searched for this on search engines, I haven't found one in a project's character. (I.e. were it's open for debate/pull requests/changes.) Perhaps not, but you *did* find them. Your original email referenced, for instance, the Debian GnuPG