Re: Advice Upgrading to GnuPG 2

2007-05-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm thinking about that, even if I installed, I may never use it. > I'm used to the binary name "gpg", but not "gpg2". And most > environments I'm working on are servers, not desktops. I use GnuPG from 1.4.7 is better for servers. Shal

Re: Advice Upgrading to GnuPG 2

2007-05-24 Thread imacat
On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:59:50 +0200 Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I'm thinking about that, even if I installed, I may never use it. > > I'm used to the binary name "gpg", but not "gpg2". And most > > environments I'm working on

easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread ptr
Hi, I'm looking at easy way for my email recipients to validate that email sent from me is actually from me. I was thinking about some web way, ie: they could copy and paste email body to verify it. Is there some secure provider of such service? Are there maybe better ways to do it? Thanx Peter

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Joseph Oreste Bruni
Securing normal email can be done using either an OpenPGP-compliant email client and/or one that support S/MIME using X.509 certificates. Trying to secure webmail is a lot more tedious since you'd need to prepare the email in a local text-editor, sign it using GnuPG, and paste the resulting

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Schreiber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/24/07, Joseph Oreste Bruni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to secure webmail is a lot more tedious since you'd need to > prepare the email in a local text-editor, sign it using GnuPG, and > paste the resulting text into your browser. The recip

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > I'm looking at easy way for my email recipients to validate that > email sent > from me is actually from me. The obvious way is to suggest they use an OpenPGP application, such as GnuPG or PGP, to verify your signature. > Is there some secure

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Adam Schreiber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/24/07, Hardeep Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you provide more info on this? Can windows users use this with Cygwin or > something? what is Seahorse? Seahorse[1] is a password and encryption key manager for the GNOME desktop. Additionall

Re: GnuPG for a small company -- Questions before I start

2007-05-24 Thread Eray Aslan
On 17.05.2007 16:10, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: [...] > When I did similar things the setup was as follows: > > * there is one well-guarded organization key (org key) > * every person involved has a key signed by the org key > * people keys have designated-revoker set to org key > * all OpenPGP s

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread ptr
I cannot "force" my recipients to install any PGP software so I was thinking about creating signature verification form on my website. If someone wanted to check if the email is really from me, he/she could paste the signed email part on the form, then the server-side script would verify that. I'

Re: decryption not possible?

2007-05-24 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Thursday 24 May 2007 01:21, engage wrote: > I wasn't prompted for a passphrase! > > gnupg2-1.9.22-2.2mdv2007.0 > gnupg-1.4.7-0.2mdv2007.0 > kdepim-kmail-3.5.4-12mdv2007.0 That's just a wild guess, but the usual reason for this behavior is that gpg-agent is not setup correctly. I suggest you re

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Todd
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:29:11AM -0700, ptr wrote: > > I cannot "force" my recipients to install any PGP software so I was thinking > about creating signature verification form on my website. If someone wanted > to check if the email is really from me, he/she could paste the signed email > part

Re: decryption not possible?

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 engage wrote: > I wasn't prompted for a passphrase! Perhaps the message was only ASCII-armored. - -- Windows NT 5.1.2600 | Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 | Enigmail 0.95.0 | GPG 1.4.7 Key ID: 0x60A78FCB - available on major keyservers and upon request Fing

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread ptr
Agree with the DNS poisoning, my form would need to be SSL'ed with my private certificate. In terms of educating my recipients - yes, it may be tricky, that is probably the weakest point of my concept, will need to think how to approach it. The solution should be both easy for the recipient, but

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
ptr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at easy way for my email recipients to validate > that email sent from me is actually from me. I was thinking > about some web way, ie: they could copy and paste email body > to verify it. Is there some secure provider of such service? > Are th

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:37:09AM -0700, ptr wrote: > > Agree with the DNS poisoning, my form would need to be SSL'ed with my private > certificate. > > In terms of educating my recipients - yes, it may be tricky, that is > probably the weakest poin

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: As an aside, if you are concerned about DNS cache server poisoning, then take the IP address and stick it into the hosts file (make sure hosts come before DNS in the nsswitch.conf file in nix machines). If nothing else it stops the chatter happy Zone Alarm firewall fro

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Peter Todd wrote: > The *only* thing included in the hash is what is between the START > and END bits, that's it, no headers no nothing. I'm not positive, > but I belive the MIME based PGP is pretty similar. Of course, this > means that you can f

Re: decryption not possible?

2007-05-24 Thread engage
On Thursday 24 May 2007 11:54, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Thursday 24 May 2007 01:21, engage wrote: > > I wasn't prompted for a passphrase! > > > > gnupg2-1.9.22-2.2mdv2007.0 > > gnupg-1.4.7-0.2mdv2007.0 > > kdepim-kmail-3.5.4-12mdv2007.0 > > That's just a wild guess, but the usual reason for this be