Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:04, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: Has this been made this clear to collaborating MUA/plugin developers? I think the auto select a key step for MUAs or plugins is often implemented as let gpg pick the key based on the user ID. I added PGP/MIME crypto to several MUA and

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-24 Thread M.B.Jr.
Hi David, about the first tidbit: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: First of all, someone has factored a 512-bit RSA key (the one used to protect a TI programmable calculator, it seems).  It took 73 days on a dual-core 1900Mhz Athlon64.  It took just

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-24 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:30 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, about the first tidbit: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: First of all, someone has factored a 512-bit RSA key (the one used to protect a TI programmable calculator, it seems). It took 73 days

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-24 Thread M.B.Jr.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:30 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, about the first tidbit: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw ds...@jabberwocky.com wrote: First of all, someone has factored a 512-bit RSA key (the one

Is it possible to have the same authentication key on several smartcard ?

2009-09-24 Thread tux . tsndcb
Hi Werner, Sorry, but I've need more informations about it. I tried this : gpg2 --edit-key my_key_id commande genkey = commande invalide , may be you wanted to say addkey ?, but in this case what choice : RSA (sign only) or RSA (encrypt only) ? Thanks in advanced for these informations and

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-24 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 09/23/2009 06:04 PM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: I'm pretty sure that this will break horribly as soon as the user ID contains non-ASCII characters (as does my user ID). For exactly this reason I made KMail use the key ID instead of the

Is it possible to have the same authentication key on several smartcard ?

2009-09-24 Thread tux . tsndcb
Hi werner, I think I've the solution, could you confirm it please : gpg2 --edit-key my_key_id commande addkey RSA (sign only) Thanks in advanced for your answer Best Regards - Mail Original - De: tux tsndcb tux.tsn...@free.fr À: Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org