Re: GPG and PGP

2011-03-14 Thread vedaal
iOn Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:50:29 -0400 Werner Koch wrote: >On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:50, ved...@nym.hush.com said: > >> (btw, Disastry is the one who wrote the IDEA.dll module, >> specifically to bridge the gap between gnupg and pgp users.) > >Hmmm, the signature claims that I wrote it. I stand corr

Re: GPG and PGP

2011-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:50, ved...@nym.hush.com said: > (btw, Disastry is the one who wrote the IDEA.dll module, > specifically to bridge the gap between gnupg and pgp users.) Hmmm, the signature claims that I wrote it. However, I still recommend not to use it. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Di

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:17, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Inline signatures /are/ standards. RFC 4880 is far newer than RFC 3156: > by your logic, 4880 should supersede 3156 and we should all move to the > current standard and abandon 3156 support. You are mixing the MIME standards with the OpenPG

Re: hashed user IDs [was: Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?]

2011-03-14 Thread Vlad "SATtva" Miller
MFPA: >> Trust is not transitive. If A trusts B and B trusts C, >> there is no requirement that A trusts C. > > In real life, true. But what about the GnuPG default of trusting a key > that carries certifications from 1 fully trusted or 3 marginally > trusted keys. Unless you manually inspect each

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:17:59 -0400 Robert J. Hansen articulated: > On 3/14/2011 8:23 AM, Jerry wrote: > > The point being that at some point you have to move on. > > Yes, exactly. At some point *you* have to move on -- but you don't > get to say if, or when, other people decide to move on. > >

Re: GPG and PGP

2011-03-14 Thread vedaal
Gloria.Teo at bit.admin.ch Gloria.Teo at bit.admin.ch wrote on Mon Mar 14 11:23:26 CET 2011 : >gpg: epflpepfl": preference for cipher algorithm 1 Cipher Algorithm 1 is IDEA, and was used as a default cipher for RSA keys by 6.5.8 GnuPG does not use IDEA although it will accept the IDEA module.

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:23, gnupg.u...@seibercom.net said: > Perhaps a possible solution would be to freeze "GNUPG" at its present > state of development. Now, start the creation of a new branch that Fortunately this is not required. GnuPG does not know about mail; it does not even know about PGP

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:57, thaj...@gmail.com said: > I use a screen reader called JAWS For Windows. The GUI is not screen > reader accessible, meaning I can not use the Arrow keys, Tab, Shift+Tab I see that you are talking about GPA for Windows. It is quite possible that this is not up to what th

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 3/14/2011 8:23 AM, Jerry wrote: > The point being that at some point you have to move on. Yes, exactly. At some point *you* have to move on -- but you don't get to say if, or when, other people decide to move on. For the time being, a lot of people are still on platforms that use outdated sof

Re: PGPFW658Win32

2011-03-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 03/14/2011 06:23 AM, Mike Acker wrote: > I don't like GPA and I don't like Cleopatra either. In the first place > you should need only 1 key-manager. Evidently GPA didn't cut it and so > they tried Cleopatra and missed with that too Who's "they"? The developers behind GPA are not the same dev

PGPFW658Win32

2011-03-14 Thread Mike Acker
I had used the above -- obsolete/MIT distribution of PGP for some time. It is unfortunately, obsolete: it had a much better GUI than GnuPG, especially when you wanted to examine a key. I think though that PGP has an assortment of different levels of support; the above being only valid through Lev

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:28:02 -0700 Doug Barton articulated: [snip] This entire thread breaks down to a few simple principals of which the most prominent one is if you are going to become a slave to the past. While one's method may be more circuitous than another's is irrelevant. The final goal i

Re: RSA Versus DSA and EL GAMAL

2011-03-14 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 03/13/2011 09:21 PM, Jonathan Ely wrote: > I apologise in advance if this is a stupid question to ask now or if > people already asked it before I stepped on the scene, but which > algorithm is more secure: DSA and EL GAMAL or RSA? I know the latter has > undergone a ridiculous amount of scrutin

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Jonathan Ely
I think I made the mistake of using HTML format the first time then learnt my signature failed to validate. I realised it was because of the HTML check box being checked; thus, I have disabled that. I have also disabled the text signature for replies. On 14/03/2011 02:24 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote:

GPG and PGP

2011-03-14 Thread Gloria.Teo
Hi, 1. I've tried to install PGP 6.5.8 on SUSE SLES 11 and it doesn't work. I gave up and 2. Try to import the pgp (6.5.8) keys (public and private) on my server (SUSE SLES 11) with GPG 2.0.9. While importing the private key, I get gpg: key B5AC473D: secret key imported gpg:

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Jonathan Ely
I use a screen reader called JAWS For Windows. The GUI is not screen reader accessible, meaning I can not use the Arrow keys, Tab, Shift+Tab and any other navigational keys to use the GPA utility like you can with the mouse. I really hate that; people have no idea how much it annoys me. I might wri

Re: For Windows

2011-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:40, k...@grant-olson.net said: > - GPG4WIN is the right package to install gpg2 on windows, so you've got > the right installer. It's a shame GPA doesn't work with a screen reader. What is the problem with GPA? It is a plain gtk+ application and thus should have the same