Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: > >>Salve! >>Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? >>Manual not very clear about this. > > > It's a countermeasure against an attack against signing sub

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +1030, Alphax wrote: > >>David Shaw wrote: >> >>>On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:09PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: >

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread David Shaw
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:47:08PM +1030, Alphax wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:09PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: > > > >>On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: > >> > >>>Salve! > >>>Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? > >>>Manual not

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:09PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: > >>On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: >> >>>Salve! >>>Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? >>>Manual not very clear about this.

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread Ryan Malayter
On 11/4/05, Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it depends on how your paranoia works, and about whom you choose to > be paranoid. Does the NSA recommend ECC for government use so that another > government agency (e.g., the NSA) can read, if necessary or desired by the > parties t

Re: Expiring UID

2005-11-04 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 04:59:01PM +, Nicholas Cole wrote: > Am I right that there is no easy way to create an > expiring UID (as opposed to an expiring key). > > --ask-cert-expire seems to be ignored when using > adduid in the edit menu. > > Is there a good reason for this? Honestly, no

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 markus reichelt wrote: > * Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> markus reichelt wrote (in part): >> >> >>> Mainly, because I think that the guys with the small ... glasses ;-) >>> at NSA can break public key crypto quite easily, >> >

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 02:24:09PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: > > Salve! > > Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? > > Manual not very clear about this. > > It's a countermeasure against an attack against signing subkeys. >

Re: back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:15:16PM +0300, Pawel Shajdo wrote: > Salve! > Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? > Manual not very clear about this. It's a countermeasure against an attack against signing subkeys. Basically, the primary key signs all subkeys. With backsigs, the signing

back signatures

2005-11-04 Thread Pawel Shajdo
Salve! Can somebody explain me what is "back signatures"? Manual not very clear about this. Vale! -- Pawel I. Shajdo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread markus reichelt
* Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > markus reichelt wrote (in part): > > > Mainly, because I think that the guys with the small ... glasses > > ;-) at NSA can break public key crypto quite easily, > > Could you give a basis for this assertion? Well... please understand that it is my

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread markus reichelt
* "John W. Moore III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps he believes TRANSLTR actually exists. Perhaps he does not even know what TRANSLTR is, exactly. But he does know about A. -- left blank, right bald pgp6Oio1k78rp.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jean-David Beyer wrote: > markus reichelt wrote (in part): > > >>>Mainly, because I think that the guys with the small ... glasses >>>;-) at NSA can break public key crypto quite easily, > > > Could you give a basis for this assertion? > > Is i

Expiring UID

2005-11-04 Thread Nicholas Cole
Am I right that there is no easy way to create an expiring UID (as opposed to an expiring key). --ask-cert-expire seems to be ignored when using adduid in the edit menu. Is there a good reason for this? Best, N. ___

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 markus reichelt wrote (in part): > Mainly, because I think that the guys with the small ... glasses > ;-) at NSA can break public key crypto quite easily, Could you give a basis for this assertion? Is it because you think they have so much computer

Re: using option --logger-fd in Win32

2005-11-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 13:52:46 +0300, vitaly said: > How can i "write log output to file descriptor n and not to stderr"? > Please, give me example of use an option "--logger-fd" in Win OS. That is a matter of the shell. I don't now whether cmd.exe supports this. We use this gpgme heavily along w

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread markus reichelt
* Christoph Anton Mitterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Christoph Anton Mitterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>do you know of an application that uses this lib? > >>> > >>No I don't but that shouldn't be a reason to forget about it,... > >> > >Now why is that? I didn't imply anythi

Re: Feature request: expand 'clean' to 'clean total'

2005-11-04 Thread markus reichelt
* Dirk Traulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, fortunately in 1.4.3, there will be a 'clean', which does exactly > what 'clean total' should have done. Great news, I'm looking forward to it. -- left blank, right bald pgpmUqWFaKtPm.pgp Description: PGP signature