Re: Including public key

2011-07-27 Thread Grant Olson
On 7/27/2011 10:25 PM, Len Cooley wrote: > Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to > attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as below? > Unless you're trying to keep your key 'off the grid' I'd just send the key to the keyservers. Then people who

Smartcard durability?

2011-07-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Are there any particular problems the durability of a smartcard, particularly an OpenPGP card? Are there any damage concerns from wallet storage, for instance? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/g

Re: Including public key

2011-07-27 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Len Cooley wrote: > Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to > attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as below? It depends on what you're trying to accomplish. In my experience, it's generally felt to be somewhat im

Re: Including public key

2011-07-27 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 7/27/11 10:25 PM, Len Cooley wrote: > Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to > attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as below? As with most things in life, "it depends." There are almost certainly environments in which doing so makes a lot o

Including public key

2011-07-27 Thread Len Cooley
Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as below? -- My GPG public key -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: SKS 1.1.0 mQGiBEZ7KUMRBAD1FiEDDKjhdIc/VL3DloRPC4x89KPm2HttDMhoUexNIa99rMLq1H3bKFUS WCd03

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:07, j-...@ottosson.nu said: > Even worse though, as I recall from the time when I worked with IBM crypto > processors like 4758 etc, a lot of the people inside the (somewhat introvert) > banking community working with security, had no clue and actually believed > that P