Re: Secure text editor?

2007-05-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Ryan Malayter wrote: > On 5/17/07, Alessandro Vesely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not quite. That may happen as an undocumented side effect on some >> (or all) OS versions, and is not what the function is meant to do. > > The documentation clearly states: > "These pages are guaranteed not to be w

RE: Secure text editor?

2007-05-18 Thread daneshwar.mishra
Hi all, We are planning to use GPG tool in our application which is JAVA Based. Could you please let me know that, how can i use GPG encryption and decryption using JAVA. below is criteria on which i have to evaluate GPG Evaluate GPG tool -- i.Invoking this tool from Java. If this

Java and GnuPG

2007-05-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We are planning to use GPG tool in our application which is JAVA Based. > Could you please let me know that, how can i use GPG encryption and > decryption using JAVA. I would recommend against this if you're going to be running on Windows. See, e.g.: http://lists.gnu

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread James Cloos
> "Roscoe" == Roscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roscoe> I have tried printing out a key, then scanning and using gocr on Roscoe> the result. That was unsuccessful due to the high number of Roscoe> errors in the OCR phase, Use the OCRA font. I did that in the past scaled so that the key use

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Mark H. Wood
Of course, paper can also be eaten by bugs or mildew, which wouldn't be interested in polycarbonate or Mylar. The lesson here is that, regardless what medium you choose, let the rated lifetime guide you in developing maintenance procedures but DO NOT depend on it; take each volume out of the vault

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Casey Jones
James Cloos wrote: > Use the OCRA font. I did that in the past scaled so that the key used > up most of a single letter sized sheet of paper. I probably used mpage¹ > or enscript² to do the conversion to PostScript (it has been a while :). > CTAN has metafont versions of OCRA and OCRB if you use

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
David Shaw wrote: > For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper > regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal > conditions. All seems rather academic to me as I would expect the current encryption algorithms to be rendered useless by then. Ben _

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > David Shaw wrote: >> For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper >> regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal >> conditions. > > All seems rather academic to me as I wou

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread David Shaw
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:41:06PM +0100, Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper > > regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal > > conditions. > > All seems rather academic to me as I would expe

Two SmartCards simultanously?

2007-05-18 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear List, I intend to share one computer with a person I trust. We both have an OpenPGP SmartCard. My question is whether it is (or will be) possible to install card readers / cards in such a way that we both can sign and decrypt using our respectibl

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> All seems rather academic to me as I would expect the current > encryption > algorithms to be rendered useless by then. Not academic at all. If we know that paper will last for >2000 years assuming just basic precautions, then we know that the lifetime of our media will not be the limitin