Re: Revocation Certificates

2008-10-05 Thread Jorgen Christiansen Lysdal
Robert J. Hansen wrote: This deputy sheriff reported to his superior, and I wound up with a thirty-day delay in the paperwork while the county sheriff made sure that I didn't have murder afoot. Were they overreacting? Sure,a bit. But they were also doing their job. They could have been

Re: Revocation Certificates

2008-10-05 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jorgen Christiansen Lysdal wrote: Robert J. Hansen wrote: This deputy sheriff reported to his superior, and I wound up with a thirty-day delay in the paperwork while the county sheriff made sure that I didn't have murder afoot. Were they

Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-05 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Although David's awesome little tool [1] reduces the chance of losing a secret key, I am still a fan for pre-generated revocation certificates in case a key is irrecoverably lost. David, is there a chance that you will extend paperkey so that it encodes and decodes revocation certificates?

Re: Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-05 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 21:40 +0200, Sven Radde wrote: David, is there a chance that you will extend paperkey so that it encodes and decodes revocation certificates? I'm not David (obviously), but I don't see the win here. The problem with paper copies of private keys is they're big. If there's

Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello! [1] For those that might not know: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Well, I didn't know about that tool. I was thinking about backing up the secret keys in a printed paper, but I discarded the idea because I thought it was

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Faramir wrote: [1] For those that might not know: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ Well, I didn't know about that tool. I was thinking about backing up the secret keys in a printed paper, but I discarded the idea because I thought it was infeasible (I

Re: Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-05 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 5, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Sven Radde wrote: Although David's awesome little tool [1] reduces the chance of losing a secret key, I am still a fan for pre-generated revocation certificates in case a key is irrecoverably lost. David, is there a chance that you will extend paperkey so that it

Re: Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: ... that much that can be removed. Luckily revocation certificates are pretty short to begin with. The only real advantage that paperkey could bring to revocation certificates is the per-line CRC, which makes retyping

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: On Oct 5, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Faramir wrote: http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/ ... 1.- If I use the tool in ubuntu, and then I open the output text file in windows (to print it), will I have problems with

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread John Clizbe
Faramir wrote: 1.- If I use the tool in ubuntu, and then I open the output text file in windows (to print it), will I have problems with charsets? Maybe the solution would be to convert the txt to a pdf file, before moving it to windows... Should only 7bit characters Charset shouldn't be an

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 John Clizbe escribió: Grab the archive and extract it. Move to the top level directory and configure make make install. I just built it on Windows under MSYS with the MinGW compiler. Windows version? Maybe, if David Shaw is not opposed, you

Re: Paperkey for Revocation Certificates? (Feature-Request :-)

2008-10-05 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 5, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Faramir wrote: * The file format is now included as part of the base16 output, as there is no guarantee that this program will be on-hand when a reconstruction is necessary. The format can also be displayed via the --file-format command. Suggested

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 5, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Faramir wrote: John Clizbe escribió: Grab the archive and extract it. Move to the top level directory and configure make make install. I just built it on Windows under MSYS with the MinGW compiler. Windows version? Maybe, if David Shaw is not opposed, you

Re: Paperkey (some questions about its usage)

2008-10-05 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Am Sonntag, den 05.10.2008, 17:50 -0400 schrieb Faramir: 2.- Well... I am really newbie with ubuntu (I am starting to think I am a noob in ubuntu, since time is passing, and I am not improving at all), so I have some doubts about how to install the tool in ubuntu... It's in the