Re: A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send me messages that only we can read. Now what do I do?]

2013-04-05 Thread Ryan Sawhill
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Don Saklad dsak...@gnu.org wrote: A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send messages that only the two of us can read. Now what do I do? The numbers of steps for it appear to be insurmountable! And I've failed to understand GNUPG myself.

Re: A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send me messages that only we can read. Now what do I do?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jan Ignatius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-04-05 05:23, Don Saklad wrote: A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send messages that only the two of us can read. Now what do I do? The numbers of steps for it appear to be insurmountable! And I've failed to understand

A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send me messages that only we can read. Now what do I do?]

2013-04-05 Thread Don Saklad
A PC user unfamiliar with any free software would like to send messages that only the two of us can read. Now what do I do? The numbers of steps for it appear to be insurmountable! And I've failed to understand GNUPG myself. ___ Gnupg-users mailing

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2013-04-05 Thread Don Saklad
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Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Stan Tobias
Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net wrote: I've changed the subject line to indicate that this thread is about establishing a pseudonym, *not* about anonymous users. This is a subtle but important difference. People assume pseudonyms for various reasons, anonymity being but one of

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 04/05/2013 11:39 AM, Stan Tobias wrote: People assume pseudonyms for various reasons, anonymity being but one of them. It is clear the person behind adrelanos wants to remain anonymous, while giving a name to his action. This is practically the definition of a pseudonym, not anonymity.

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 11:39 AM, Stan Tobias wrote: The problem we're trying to solve here is how to ascertain originality of a software development line, IOW how to authenticate it. What I do is get my OS (a Linux distribution from Red Hat) on a DVD directly from them. It contains, along with

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 05/04/13 20:16, Jean-David Beyer wrote: Probably the software Red Hat supplies is kept on a machine that is not on the Internet and it is all signed on that machine. At which point, the signed software is placed on an Internet-connected machine for downloading (seems like a good idea to

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 04:27 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: I have no idea how Red Hat does this, but it seems unlikely to me. It's not connected to the internet, but signs the whole repository, and each individual security update etcetera. Is there a guy who keeps going back and forth with a USB stick