Re: OpenPGP 2.0 and Hushmail keys

2009-09-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:53, mcs...@hotmail.com said: I am battling to understand this as I thought generating a key pair on the openPGP card itself was as secure as can be as your private key ONLY exists on the card itself and is not available anywhere else (ie: on your hard drive for export).

Re: Copy existing key to OpenPGP 2.0 card

2009-09-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:34, mcs...@hotmail.com said: What is the correct way to copy existing keys that exist onto an OpenPGP 2.0 card? I was trying this, is it correct: gpg --edit-key toggle keytocard select 1 key 1 keytocard select 2 q y Soemthing like this. You need to

Getting the SCM SCT3511 to work

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Lebbing
In a previous message [1] in the thread named Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?, I wrote that gnupg with Debian version 1.4.9-4 cannot use an OpenPGP v1 card in the SCT3511 reader. I've installed Debian version 1.4.10-1 from unstable, and it seems there is no change in the situation. I did

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread Johan Wevers
David Shaw wrote: If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason there is still the IDEA plugin. It still works with GnuPG 1.4.10 for both Linux and Windows,

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: David Shaw wrote: If the some people still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason there is still the IDEA plugin. It still

Question about Algorithm Validations

2009-09-21 Thread Tom Schaible
Hello all, I've been trying to find some information on GPG and how it's algorithms are validated. Unfortunately, I've been coming up empty on the web site and in archive searches. Hopefully, some of you can answer my questions and confirm some of assumptions. 1. I'm working under the

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread M.B.Jr.
Gentlemen, I really appreciate the comments you've made on the subject and the little debates as well. That was exactly what I was expecting. Sometimes, regular users do not have the proper notion of whether some functionality merits attention. All in all, it looks like IDEA, even if totally

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 21, 2009, at 10:11 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Gentlemen, I really appreciate the comments you've made on the subject and the little debates as well. That was exactly what I was expecting. Sometimes, regular users do not have the proper notion of whether some functionality merits attention.

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread Robert J. Hansen
M.B.Jr. wrote: All in all, it looks like IDEA, even if totally freed, is sentenced to gradual abandonment. Is this perception of mine correct? It is more accurate to say it has already been abandoned. Very few people today use IDEA as a symmetric cipher for OpenPGP messages.