GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-20 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We just released the third *beta version* of GnuPG 2.1. It has been released to give you the opportunity to check out the new features. It is marked as a beta versions and the plan is to release a couple more betas in the next months before we can declare 2.1.0 stable enough for

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-20 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 16 December 2011 18:50, Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: On 12/16/2011 10:51 AM, gn...@lists.grepular.com wrote: I understand that once you've uploaded something to the keyservers, it can't be removed. Eg, if I sign someone elses key and upload that, it will be attached to

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-20 Thread Hubert Kario
On Monday 19 of December 2011 10:36:33 Jerome Baum wrote: On 2011-12-19 10:31, Jerome Baum wrote: My understanding is that name + DoB + place of birth together are unique. Sometimes. In theory. Oh but that doesn't mean we should all add our DoB to our UIDs now. Remember that your DoB is

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-20 Thread Johan Wevers
On 20-12-2011 16:49, Hubert Kario wrote: Yeah, the kind of protections banks use is funny. But then, what can they do when people forget their passwords 5 minutes after they set them or use the same password on facebook and their bank... They could use the same system that all banks

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-20 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 20 of December 2011 17:34:24 Johan Wevers wrote: On 20-12-2011 16:49, Hubert Kario wrote: Yeah, the kind of protections banks use is funny. But then, what can they do when people forget their passwords 5 minutes after they set them or use the same password on facebook and their

Re: GnuPG 2.1 beta 3 released

2011-12-20 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote:  * GPG does not anymore use secring.gpg but delegates all secret key   operations to gpg-agent.  The import command moves secret keys to   the agent.  * The OpenPGP import command is now able to merge secret keys. I see that