Re: What is the benefit of signing an encrypted email

2011-01-18 Thread Hauke Laging
Sorry, just found this one in my spam folder :-) Am Mittwoch 12 Januar 2011 17:49:10 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: a) usual (not thought about) email, just as a first hard line of defense against forgery Doesn't work. Here's the thought experiment I've been using for years. OK, I was not

Re: gpg command output language???

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Lebbing
On -10/01/37 20:59, Bo Berglund wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:39:14 +, MFPA expires2...@ymail.com I'm using GnuPG 1.4.x, not 2.x, and my copy of GPG man page is the text file called gpg.man that lives in the DOC folder under my GnuPG program directory. I have installed GPG2 as part of

Re: What is the benefit of signing an encrypted email

2011-01-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 1/18/11 6:36 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: If I regularly write emails to somebody and once he gets a mail that is not signed then he is to be distrustful. Why? This seems like you're saying, I reserve the right to decide what someone else's security policy is, particularly which messages they

Re: OpenPGP for Android

2011-01-18 Thread Tiago Faria
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:35:12 +0100 Daniel Mang danielm...@googlemail.com wrote: It seems not very secure to put your private key on a mobile device, unless there is some way to encrypt the harddisk (in case the device is stolen or confiscated). Is there ? There has been some discussion and

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta released

2011-01-18 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2010 18:32:34 schrieb Werner Koch:  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/unstable/gnupg-2.1.0beta1.tar.bz2 Looks like it needs libassuan-2.0.1 and the configure check for this does not indicate it when running with libassuan-dev 2.0.0-0kk1. BTW: Was there an announcement

Re: What is the benefit of signing an encrypted email

2011-01-18 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM, jimbob palmer jimbobpal...@gmail.com wrote: In Firefox I can sign or encrypt or encrypt+sign an e-mail. In what case would I want my encrypted emails also signed? Does it provide any additional benefit over a pure encrypted email? It is, in fact, trivial to

Re: Do smartcards stay unlocked forever by design?

2011-01-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:03, k...@grant-olson.net said: 1) Once I enter my pin, the card is unlocked as long as it's connected. It depends on the card application. For the OpenPGP card it is true for key 2 and 3. For key 1 see below. A reset operation locks the keys again. (Try: