Re: distributing ones public key (email)

2010-01-21 Thread MFPA
. These seem to be fairly rare these days though - or maybe I just don't know many people who use clients like this. Outlook Express has that limitation (unless it was fixed in a late version). - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@ymail.com When you're

Re: key question

2010-02-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 25 February 2010 at 3:53:23 AM, in mid:4b85f433.1040...@mozilla-enigmail.org, John Clizbe wrote: MFPA wrote: Hi John On Thursday 25 February 2010 at 12:17:36 AM, you wrote: It is also a good idea to send your key

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2010-02-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Ultimate consistency lies in being consistently inconsistent -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4aK6aipC46tDG5pAQoWfgP+Kaflz5+32QsDfOJBV+tm33kXb8oDQzMo

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
who controls that key at the time you are signing it - not an indication that you are in any way associated. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com War is a matter of vital importance to the State. pgpAp7LFTpgPR.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com I would like to help you out. Which way did you come in? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4fufqipC46tDG5pAQpdpQP+Jt6wFJyyfGenY/9zNZqLGRqVXkv1vMxz 5wxYHUHOtLCEgUWugajfR7TQ7/4PBm1R6lN4+7rtltepswGUiikniEkHfhBLJx+t K22Aa+vr3ZxS5bA2K

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
places may be illegal itself. Isn't that a good enough reason to not want a key on a public server showing your name and/or an email address that can be traced to you? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Robert On Thursday 25 February 2010 at 8:23:30 PM, you wrote: On 2/25/10 9:24 AM, MFPA wrote: Some people hate the idea and get *very* upset if their key does end up on the servers. What you're advocating here is DRM on the honor system

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Robert On Friday 26 February 2010 at 6:05:56 PM, you wrote: On 2/26/10 12:38 PM, MFPA wrote: I am *not* advocating the implementation of any form of Digital Restrictions Malware (DRM). You can say you're not advocating DRM

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
with it, and upload it. Or their UID could simply identify whose was the key with the obfuscated UID. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com If you can't convince them, confuse them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
an extra warning to answer if you execute --send-keys to upload a key with that bit set? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Don't anthropomorphize computers - they hate it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4g42aipC46tDG5pAQpbhgP/UR

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi David On Friday 26 February 2010 at 4:33:03 PM, you wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 2/26/10 9:49 AM, MFPA wrote: I thought signing somebody's key was just stating to the world that you believe the claimed

Re[4]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
the information they find. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Look, it's a hat! It's not going to hurt you. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4hnqqipC46tDG5pAQrosQQAgJcCy9zvllPkG7edCUIm+T26xJ1pkV79 YYW78kkr+ACk7LQpO5oufPF1Z1OKT63Dprnj

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
://www.accurateinformationsystems.com/downloads/International_Data_Protection_Laws.pdf And Google or similar will find you many more. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com If you can't convince them, confuse them. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg

Re: key question

2010-02-26 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 26 February 2010 at 5:04:36 PM, in mid:4b87ff24.3000...@sixdemonbag.org, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 2/26/10 10:53 AM, MFPA wrote: There are privacy issues, especially if user-ids on the key contain email addresses. This isn't

Re: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
an end to the presumption that people will want to include their email address in their UID. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4lwraipC46tDG5pAQoB3QQAnRVJg+c1iw315vOMc

Re[2]: key generation: email-address necessary?

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
the key ID for that email address. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Change is inevitable except from a vending machine -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4mF6KipC46tDG5pAQrg3wQAq7tFOvu5NpAhVtrVIyfUjmwN1Sa6Cz8l IMQMf/3mDlyih7iQ92mU6

Re: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
in the conventional wisdom. Before I'll sign on to that I'll have to see some strong reasoning, and I haven't. It seems (and I could be utterly wrong), that MFPA is saying Not everyone wants their key on the keyservers, so please don't automatically send other people's keys there. If the key owner

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
have stated that you check first, you have advocated that it's OK not to. Somebody following your advice could land this hypothetical Cuban in a whole lot of trouble. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Don't ask me, I'm making this up as I go! -BEGIN PGP

Re: OFF LIST

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Robert On Saturday 27 February 2010 at 8:03:15 PM, you wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:21 PM, MFPA wrote: I have always been taught to challenge the status quo. Because that's the way we do it is *never* a good reason to continue doing

Re: Fwd: Re: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
was it? Is it much easier to track a random John Smith than a random MFPA? How do I authenticate that an anonymous entity is really an anonymous entity? I'm not anonymous: I'm MFPA. Various people who know me personally could attest to that. For all anybody reading this knows, I could have renounced my

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-27 Thread MFPA
the request. In my opinion that's a step forward. I'm convinced 1.4.9 would only do that in expert mode. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Two wrongs don't make a right. But three lefts do. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS4oFJ6ipC46tDG5pAQoUHwP9EPBFa

Re[2]: key question

2010-02-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi John On Saturday 27 February 2010 at 10:21:20 PM, you wrote: MFPA wrote: My contention is that the de facto standard of revealing email addresses in key UIDs could actually be mitigating *against* the use of encrypted mail

Re[2]: Fwd: Re: key question

2010-02-28 Thread MFPA
by a free, ordinary user search--and find out a beginning of how to track down MFPA so they can verify his key in person. :-) Why not start your detective work from something like email kludges? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Versifiers write poems

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Mark On Wednesday 3 March 2010 at 4:16:21 PM, you wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +, MFPA wrote: There are privacy issues, especially if user-ids on the key contain email addresses. In some cases, the authorities knowing

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-03 Thread MFPA
made. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com What's another word for synonym? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS462J6ipC46tDG5pAQr/RgP/UNZPYOePwKIZ1/wlu6HXKHwMfrN86i7G hOq8Ms2LYrDf3hfXBgw03/HGFUKjeJzKDDdvpe8dwl49dvvRe/kiKttQfZZLXyBk

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-07 Thread MFPA
Hi Paul On Saturday 6 March 2010 at 8:54:41 AM, you wrote: Hello MFPA, During this whole debate, you have assumed one thing in your argument that I don't believe anyone has pointed out as being flawed. You have assumed that the person (I will call him John Doe) would have decided

Re[4]: key question

2010-03-07 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi David On Sunday 7 March 2010 at 5:53:51 PM, you wrote: On Mar 7, 2010, at 11:46 AM, MFPA wrote: (And yes, I know gpg now allows you to omit the email address without having to use --expert, but you are still asked

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-07 Thread MFPA
be drawn toward tools whose methods carry no identity data themselves. You can't accidentally misuse a feature that isn't there. Which is, of course, sound reasoning in the event that the range of options available to that individual (and his contacts) includes such tools. -- Best regards MFPA

Re[2]: Memory forensics

2010-03-07 Thread MFPA
? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS5RXeKipC46tDG5pAQoYDgQAj3BvmgZythkHXMXotKBT/rAHpLtVCbkJ czGqvSLH8z/SJVG6cxqy98d5oVTY3uym5+5FfsvZdFrw9NEYLRdBiJwbLTDDsJBz

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-08 Thread MFPA
my key without including my name or email address (because I could not see how including them could aid privacy). Maybe it is that I am an above average user. Maybe. Maybe it is just that I exercised judgment. Maybe I expect others to do the same. Maybe. -- Best regards MFPA

Re[2]: key question

2010-03-08 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Paul On Monday 8 March 2010 at 5:35:08 AM, you wrote: MFPA wrote: On Saturday 6 March 2010 at 8:55:48 AM, you wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:52:02 + MFPA wrote: (b) the person owns the information has the right to control how

Re[2]: Migrating from PGP to GPG question

2010-03-10 Thread MFPA
is default, same as in PGP. Both offer the ability to disable a key, so that you cannot encrypt to it or sign with it but you can still decrypt and can still verify signatures. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Life is far too important a thing ever to talk

Re[2]: Using the OTR plugin with Pidgin for verifying GPG public key fingerprints

2010-03-12 Thread MFPA
to less reputable ones. A lot there that I've not heard of. Could be perfectly reputable, but I am unaware of their reputation... - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Think for yourself. Otherwise you have to believe what other people tell you. -BEGIN

Re[2]: Using the OTR plugin with Pidgin for verifying GPG public key fingerprints

2010-03-12 Thread MFPA
solicitor was fit to practice if he didn't produce expert witnesses who could explain this sufficiently clearly for the jury to understand. -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals

Re: updprefs command and changing key

2010-03-13 Thread MFPA
? Patch the source :) There is no way other than that. Wouldn't --disable-cipher-algo 3DES achieve this? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com If you can't convince them, confuse them. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS5tlkaipC46tDG5pAQqy8AP

Re[2]: updprefs command and changing key

2010-03-13 Thread MFPA
wondered. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Another person's secret is like another person's money: you are not as careful with it as you are with your own -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS5ujfKipC46tDG5pAQooygP+OHhC84sISlYWw4lCTsmTlT8MTmm0HnaS

Re: key question

2010-03-13 Thread MFPA
is not the same thing as anonymity. I like anonymity, and I want it for most of my use of the Internet. But when I post to this mailing list or use those e-mail accounts listed on my public keys, I want to associate them with my real identity. Mine varies between fairly random usernames, MFPA

Re[2]: Using the OTR plugin with Pidgin for verifying GPG public key fingerprints

2010-03-14 Thread MFPA
it to the attention of everyone. If I reject an ID incorrectly and refuse to sign, then I am damaging my own standing in the Web of Trust. Presumably less damage than if you failed to spot a fake ID and went ahead with the signing? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2

Re[2]: updprefs command and changing key

2010-03-14 Thread MFPA
off AES, you won't use it when encrypting to someone else. Would --disable-cipher-algo AES add anything to that? Or cause potential problems? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about -BEGIN PGP

Re: updprefs command and changing key

2010-03-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Sunday 14 March 2010 at 1:19:46 PM, in mid:699cd008-240b-4181-a157-552cbe241...@jabberwocky.com, David Shaw wrote: On Mar 14, 2010, at 8:26 AM, MFPA wrote: Would --disable-cipher-algo AES add anything to that? Or cause potential

Re: key question

2010-03-15 Thread MFPA
consideration. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS55JBKipC46tDG5pAQodLAP9HoBUZ50LYBcrN+STXoPSGIRAPJP62AvA

Re: key question

2010-03-16 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 16 March 2010 at 6:02:15 AM, in mid:4b9f1ee7.9000...@gmail.com, Paul Richard Ramer wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:49:32 + MFPA wrote: I don't understand the comment that they were never private information. They will have

Re: key question

2010-03-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 12:58:37 AM, in mid:pine.gso.4.61.1003161106110.25...@dionne.cs.albany.edu, reynt0 wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:49:32 + MFPA wrote: . . . When the reader is Big Brother, or a potential employer

Re: key question

2010-03-19 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 19 March 2010 at 6:54:06 AM, in mid:4ba31f8e.1050...@gmail.com, Paul Richard Ramer wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:05:21 + MFPA wrote: It looks to me as if the answer is yes. Unless each person who had one of your email

Re: 2.0.14 --gen-key interface nit

2010-03-22 Thread MFPA
MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Puns are bad but poetry is verse. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS6dnSaipC46tDG5pAQprVAP/VQRTNbu//skcjHhd3ucPrRL2TDIzjykm DuL5OxiQmhd45cGSKFgtZaqUm6hQrDrlowmUaGq800lZRZHnfmNGSrJA843YM5e9 lz63miC0vaZSBJ5wj7

Re: 2.0.14 --gen-key interface nit

2010-03-23 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 22 March 2010 at 2:30:36 PM, in mid:de66fdcb-7796-45c6-a951-7b60da26e...@jabberwocky.com, David Shaw wrote: On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:48 AM, MFPA wrote: The thing that stands out to me is the lack of an option to toggle the certify

Re: 2.0.14 --gen-key interface nit

2010-03-23 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 23 March 2010 at 2:27:10 PM, in mid:208676d2-157a-4733-b4ac-62662fda0...@jabberwocky.com, David Shaw wrote: On Mar 22, 2010, at 8:48 AM, MFPA wrote: I was thinking about the special case of users who maintain a personal master

Re: Help me to import my secret key please

2010-05-09 Thread MFPA
server; you will need to email and tell them to delete it before uploading another with the same email address in the UID to them. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Keep them dry and don't feed them after midnight -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS

Re: Help me to import my secret key please

2010-05-12 Thread MFPA
and that lives offline somewhere secure, maybe even split, in case of such eventualities. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Gypsy Dwarf Escapes Prison: Small Medium at large -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS+ruC6ipC46tDG5pAQoT/wQAxJglp9ny7kZR/V

Re: Help me to import my secret key please

2010-05-17 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 12 May 2010 at 9:48:34 PM, in mid:4beb1422.8030...@fifthhorseman.net, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 05/12/2010 02:06 PM, MFPA wrote: Although the comment could just state it was his new key from dd/mm/ without mentioning

Re: Comment fields in the User ID [was: Re: Help me to import my secret key please]

2010-05-18 Thread MFPA
of their own creation instead... Hopefully your contacts would check the validity of the suggested replacement before encrypting to it. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter!!! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS

Re: Comment fields in the User ID [was: Re: Help me to import my secret key please]

2010-05-18 Thread MFPA
actually useful? I think they are only useful for telling keys apart at-a-glance in a list or GUI. And then, only when the comment is on the primary UID. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Roses smell better than onions but don't make such good soup

Re: gpg output to a filename ending with .pgp

2010-05-25 Thread MFPA
this before? Could you paste your command here? This worked for me:- gpg -e -r mfpa -o test.txt.pgp test.txt - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Did you hear? They took the word gullible out of the dictionary -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBS

Re: upgrading from 1.4.7 to 2.0.14

2010-05-28 Thread MFPA
public key algorithms (algos 2 and 3) instead of using RSA (algo 1) with the key flags subpacket. If any of your contacts have similar keys you may experience this. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
email addresses than trawling through mailing list archives. If you want to get rid of most spam, just filter everything sent from dynamic ip addresses and you're fine. Only if you consider sacrificing some legitimate incoming mail to be fine. - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
of different ISPs and WiFi locations. That doesn't make it correct. But being sent from an RFC-ignorant server does not make a message spam or illegitimate or invalid. It just makes it slightly more suspect. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Pain is inevitable

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-10 Thread MFPA
is tripped, then ask that person to stop forwarding and delete them if they don't. Or one message to everybody with a customised subject line for each. Alternatively, those of us who are fed up with the messages could simply filter them out ourselves. (-; - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-11 Thread MFPA
the key-id. Unfortunately it also confuses some email clients, and has web-of-trust implications (because many people are unwilling to sign a key that shows no email address). - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Experience is the name everyone gives

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-11 Thread MFPA
of keyserver spam is a positive side-effect. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical situations? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBJjEaipC46tDG5pAQqa8AQAk1AYt5BJlQ+WJFTz2aysR8SK6DbD0jjR HkQVxuogazcvNFpeb/I8NH4HmC8LS6U

Re: Test mail to gnupg.u...@seibercom.net

2010-06-11 Thread MFPA
your reply to the person whose message you are replying to. So I set up my reply template to do just that. (-; - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com During an eruption - move away from the volcano - not towards it -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-11 Thread MFPA
is why I routinely block them. A large percentage of spam originates from the USA. It would be just as rational to block mail from all IP addresses that are listed as being there. (-; - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com When you're caffeinated, all is right

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-11 Thread MFPA
the best practice to block mail from people who don't do things their way. The whole idea looks suspiciously like it's designed to coerce people into abandoning simple, cheap/free home brew solutions and purchasing services from maawg members. http://www.maawg.org/ - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-12 Thread MFPA
... - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Wisdom is a companion to age; yet age may travel alone. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBPKqqipC46tDG5pAQqXmQQAwgWmCxlrxauPh55aUyXFUYg2AXyEBYxI msrCNYsRd0l2hVqGykhtL5Fwpzds14UpNbTcMH5uNW9cLzwUY3/uRd7QkisLt60i

[OT] Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread MFPA
address and the senders address. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Did you hear? They took the word gullible out of the dictionary -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBTeEaipC46tDG5pAQovlgP/ZM6sSGaX9gb+rm042SK23IRop39EmN/D

Re: Was I suppose to reply to the email titled with my email?

2010-06-13 Thread MFPA
the culprit, unsubscribed the address and banned it from further subscriptions. The culprit address was was supp...@resell.biz - I am amused to find that http://resell.biz/ claims to have friendly, responsive customer support! (-; - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2

Re: [OT] Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread MFPA
it as SPAM since it effective is, doing so would probably not bode well for the list's reputation.. SPAM (in capital letters) is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation. (-; - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Life is far too important

Re: [OT] Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread MFPA
directly as well as via the list; sometimes both addresses are in the to field, but more often one or other is a cc. I still have my reply template set up to do the same. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com No man ever listened himself out of a job -BEGIN PGP

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-14 Thread MFPA
disk space? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com When duty calls...hang up immediately -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBbBPaipC46tDG5pAQokmwQAxl9rG/x95kplr1NSETXDCtJmXLj3nImA fW3iUY3BBGdqVDJmcJRzM0l2W52j2Zrr60rYDpr0LlU9c34Q+XtzDXqluhjAaigU

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-14 Thread MFPA
regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Was time invented by an Irishman named O'Clock? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBbCQqipC46tDG5pAQrkfQQApS39GtHfr3BQU921e9jt7Zw3xqf5Iy5C r1YXdszWQfko9L3Rilup0vCwoLVf+t92S/XruzM0YaCpmi0zdJ2j+65Je0tLoq8c

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-16 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 1:46:30 AM, in mid:4c16cd66.7000...@fifthhorseman.net, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 06/14/2010 07:54 PM, MFPA wrote: On Monday 14 June 2010 at 6:19:58 PM, in mid:4c1664be.1080...@fifthhorseman.net, Daniel Kahn

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-16 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 6:10:17 PM, in mid:4c190579.40...@fifthhorseman.net, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 06/16/2010 01:03 PM, MFPA wrote: What sort of alternate fetch requests do you envision? Fetch-minimal? Fetch-no-photos? I

Re: Importing public key in OpenGPG - error. MAC OS X

2010-06-17 Thread MFPA
for help! Asger When you say not possible to import, do you mean you see some sort of error message? Providing the details would make it easier for people to help you. (I do not use any of the software you listed above.) - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-17 Thread MFPA
-ID than per individual keyserver, but still a major undertaking if you are storing it for all the keys on a large keyring. (Maybe the file of which servers synchronise with which others should be a local file rather than relying on what the servers tell you.) - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-17 Thread MFPA
: The more keys there are in the keyring the more bandwith is saved. I am convinced that users with large keyrings have enough local storage for that... And if they are using a mobile device with limited storage they probably aren't using a large keyring? - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-19 Thread MFPA
for the application GnuPG. If it's *that* small or full and can't be expanded or more space cleared, you are probably right. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Why is the universe here? Well, where else would it be? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-19 Thread MFPA
to cooperate. This could seriously slow down many GPG operations. And a short timeout of a few seconds could result in updates/revocations being missed. Maybe keys with failed updates could be tagged, and an option introduced to update all keys carrying that tag? - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-19 Thread MFPA
order, to boot. The potential tracking could be mitigated against by an ability to configure a list of keyservers rather than just one, and using a random selection from the list for each keyserver operation. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Can you imagine

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-19 Thread MFPA
. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com I think not, said Descartes, and promptly disappeared -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTBzL4aipC46tDG5pAQqaSQQAmFa4tEX0WHTMljZUUoiGuALvmOiELEwP x/fQP8n8T8hHgi/Epk+HlfQ7F04pr7f1c1k2AAE/Q5wOmvRNC6max4gkFQEUG5Lp HI0nGmGs

Re: auto refresh-keys

2010-06-19 Thread MFPA
that sign their output, but there are keyservers that use TLS. And TLS does not have to be x.590. There is a draft spec for using openpgp keys with TLS http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5081 which is implemented in the GnuTLS library http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/gnutls.html - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Searching multiple keyservers

2010-06-23 Thread MFPA
. IIRC, you have a list for fetching/updating keys and another list for submitting keys - the latter may be useful to specify servers you know don't synchronise reliably, when posting revocations. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Was time invented by an Irishman

Re: IDEA Status?

2010-06-23 Thread MFPA
. [...] I understood that for non-commercial use, IDEA was freely available for use and that licences were only needed for commercial use in the countries where it is patented. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone

Re: No-Keyserver (and other) flags on keys

2010-06-28 Thread MFPA
List as many as you like, they'll be tried in order. Is this different to auto-key-retrieve? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTCjl+6ipC46tDG5pAQo5zAP

Re: On the fly encryption of files possible?

2010-06-30 Thread MFPA
difficult to tell that kind of expert from the kind who tell you something is difficult on the sole grounds that it has not been done before... - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com ETHERNET(n): device used to catch the Ether bunny -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Digitally Sign a key

2010-06-30 Thread MFPA
to the standard method. In that case, you could encrypt the file to their key as the first step and afterwards you sign the encrypted file that resulted from the first step. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Roses smell better than onions but don't make such good soup

Re: No-Keyserver (and other) flags on keys

2010-07-04 Thread MFPA
regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTDCQKKipC46tDG5pAQqaggP/VCMJpLRty5Kt3C5E5eFe2vo6IDiVZEN3 NJAL4r9vdtRjFF4pE2CbvGGrkEO7XuMST/88fc3SSOEJk397eVOAMEKbuGhl12/t npcVc/WAiXgQ0

Re: verifying hashes with GnuPG

2010-07-20 Thread MFPA
downloading another app to do it? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Was time invented by an Irishman named O'Clock? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTEY2AKipC46tDG5pAQoDDgQAgcemmkoFGNgvlQZjAZHdslAgjIqIZ9rV MclkMHWy9BoLZZwSvPDPh9RJRe1HkQGBBeEq5PUa3wif7c

Re: verifying hashes with Gnupg

2010-07-22 Thread MFPA
, using GnuPG version 1.4.10 on Windows XP). Is this intentional, anyone know? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Virtual workspace, Virtual Office, Virtual Job -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTEia5KipC46tDG5pAQrfsgP/VeRlpeBZxsh9DS/dKJrEBluiwNQURryf

Re: Where is FAQ?

2010-07-25 Thread MFPA
encountered that requires it this way around. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com War is a matter of vital importance to the State. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTEwlO6ipC46tDG5pAQp/WgP/RRH6G39t1MMKXzPOZqgo59LrCNKlWx7g cBcp

Re: Find correct key id's

2010-07-27 Thread MFPA
that encrypted a file so that I can use the corresponding decrypting key. Is --try-all-secrets not helping you? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTE7U

Re: file contained no OpenPGPdata

2010-07-28 Thread MFPA
cannot upgrade from elderly PGP versions supporting only IDEA. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Always be on the lookout for conspicuousness -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTE8M7KipC46tDG5pAQpN2QP+IQAq9Nlo6ohsfuo/KDsQcye9v8sntVXK 4YfVmBTyoiL0qsJGbnZhp5u

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread MFPA
belonging to this group. well, maybe you get the idea. It´s basically like a forum or mailing list with an archive. PGPNET messages are encrypted to the keys of all current members. Before you joined and after you left, they do not encrypt to your key. - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread MFPA
their key with some sort of challenge-response setup and then the server could supply a copy of the required messages encrypted (on the fly) to their key. I guess that would be possible, rather than practical? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com I'll tell you

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-04 Thread MFPA
volition. Some new members on PGPNET seem to have great difficulties; they overcome them or give up. Most are able to master it fairly quickly, with help and guidance from existing members as requested. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com All generalizations

Re: recieving/updating Public Keys from SKS keyserver to pubring.gpg

2010-08-04 Thread MFPA
it to be run periodically, perhaps? or  when ever a new KEY is received by the KEYSERVER? Please help me.. --auto-key-locate [parameters] could be used to fetch new keys as needed, rather than as soon as posted to the server - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com

Re: Keypair is expiring.

2010-08-05 Thread MFPA
that signatures on the main key may predate creation of a particular subkey does not matter (as far as I know). - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com No matter where you go, there you are. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTFr/CKipC46tDG5pAQpGkgP/Rwm1XtIHXv

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-05 Thread MFPA
this into a referendum on PGPNET's existence. I guess there is a more scalable model of openPGP-encrypted mailing list. Maybe members could encrypt to a group's key and the list-server decrypt, then re-encrypt for the members? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com Another

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-07 Thread MFPA
an exponential growth. When dealing with exponential curves, linear reductions -- even large linear reductions -- are pretty much meaningless. I take it the spam overhead problem you refer to is things like not encrypted to my key messages? - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2

Re: Keypair is expiring.

2010-08-07 Thread MFPA
but it didn't help. - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com I hit the CTRL key but I'm still not in control! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQCVAwUBTF2h16ipC46tDG5pAQr5EgQAhWFo1akt8ZkMJUFTfRNLajygLvqgzJkT FRZtb8qTxCQyLWEOPXFy+j

Re: Gnupg good for big groups?

2010-08-08 Thread MFPA
. :) And sometimes people think they don't want or need it until they have tried it and realize that they cannot live without it anymore. :-) Anybody who engages in DIY will have experienced that! - -- Best regards MFPAmailto:expires2...@ymail.com My mind works like lightning

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