Re: secring and dropbox

2011-08-01 Thread Marcio B. Jr.
https://twitter.com/#!/csoghoian/status/98116328677834752 On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 09:37:09PM +0200, Michel Messerschmidt wrote: set pgp_auto_decode = yes Perfect! That was the variable I was looking for! Thanks!

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-22 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:17:27PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:15:25PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: So, it appears I'm missing some configuration in Mutt then, as it remains as the PGP message without any attempt to get to the plain text. Also, how do you get the plain

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:17:27PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:15:25PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: So, it appears I'm missing some configuration in Mutt then, as it remains as the PGP message without any attempt to get to the plain text. Also, how do you get the

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-21 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/07/11 12:20 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:01:23PM -0600, Jay Litwyn wrote: -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/gpg/Keyprint_Biometric.mp3.pgp

Re: Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-21 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Am 20:59, schrieb Aaron Toponce: [snip] Am I the only one who can't decrypt this message? Is there something I'm missing? I *could* decode it, but since I'm reading the list in digest and MIME mode (i.e., I get one combined email for every 10 postings and each posting is a separate MIME

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:25, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: I'm presenting the script here in case someone else finds it useful, but really, it's embarrassingly simple. gpg --gen-random --armor 1 16 Might even be a bit simpler ;-) Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei.

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread vedaal
Kara karadenizi at gmail.com wrote on Wed Jul 20 02:18:16 CEST 2011 : Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? Using a decent password generator and specifying a mix of upper and lower case letters, digits, and special characters, how many total characters -- as a minimum -- would

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Jerome Baum
Ah, cool. However, as the gpg(1) manual states, --gen-random removes precious entropy from your system. But that's really the point. If you want strong random data, that data should have high entropy. But that entropy needs to come from somewhere -- i.e., your system. What I'd find more

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/20/2011 09:55, Aaron Toponce wrote: Yes, of course. I'm not arguing that it isn't, but rather the documentation could be more complete, such as restoring that entropy after exhaustion. Some of us run systems that don't have that issue. :)

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-20 9:39 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:25, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: I'm presenting the script here in case someone else finds it useful, but really, it's

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
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secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Len Cooley
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Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? Depends entirely on the strength of your passphrase. With a strong enough passphrase you could publish your secret certificates in the newspaper of your choice and still be confident of their safety

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Kara
Reference Robert J. Hansen's 19 Jul 2011, 1504 (-0700), Re: secring and dropbox: Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? Depends entirely on the strength of your passphrase. With a strong enough passphrase you could publish your secret certificates in the newspaper of your

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Using a decent password generator and specifying a mix of upper and lower case letters, digits, and special characters, how many total characters -- as a minimum -- would you recommend such a password be? Generate 16 random bytes, base-64 encode them, memorize the output. I use a Python

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
On 2011-07-19 6:18 PM, Kara wrote: Reference Robert J. Hansen's 19 Jul 2011, 1504 (-0700), Re: secring and dropbox: Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? Depends entirely on the strength of your passphrase. With a strong enough passphrase you could publish your secret

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread jiangzuo...@gmail.com
at 09:28, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 04:16:17PM -0400, Len Cooley wrote: Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? I guess it's all about security versus convenience. So long as your passphrase contains enough entropy, is strong, and secure

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Aaron Kaufman
://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20072755-281/dropbox-confirms-security-glitch-no-password-required/ On 4:16:17PM, Len Cooley len.coo...@gmail.com wrote: Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org