Hi Peter et al. Am 9. Februar 2017 11:08:12 MEZ schrieb Peter Lebbing <pe...@digitalbrains.com>: >Hello, > I think it's interesting you encrypt >each and every mail you receive. That exercises all components a lot, >it >might lead to some useful insights on how things might be improved. In >fact, we just encountered such an insight I think!
To encrypt every mail I receive is an option, that my mail - provider offers. I uploaded my public key and each incoming mail becomes encrypted. In my opinion quite a good trade off, given the general usage of mail encryption outside of this list. > >On 09/02/17 07:02, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: >> This should be fixed. > Is there anything else I could provide in order to help with the bug-fix?Logs,traces anything? Of course I can offer my environment to do some tests. Should I file a bug report for this issue? >As a short term solution, you could revoke the encryption subkey and >create a new one with a common keylength; Yes, this is an option. > >If I understand correctly, you already use a regular >on-disk key on your smartphone, so this might not be a problem to you. > Actually, I'm using my smart-card also on my phone through an USB OTG cable. Nevertheless, I have an backup of my encryption key, I could facilitate to overcome the current limitations. >Changing subkey stuff has no effect on certifications; if people signed >your key, that signature will still be valid since it is on the primary >key (and an UID), subkeys are not involved in the process. > Thanks for pointing out. I'll consider using a more standard encryption key. >I'm curious how you ended up with 3104-bits RSA keys on your smartcard >in the first place, by the way! > I decided for this unusual key length more or less for the reason of obscurity. I had the unproven hope that using an unusual key length would make attacks harder. However, I did not expect it to complicate the general usage :) Cheers Basil
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