RE: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
How about a lemur? They have masked varieties (and they are cute). Raccoon also comes to mind... Thanks, Bob Cavanaugh Broadcom Corporation 16340 West Bernardo Drive San Diego CA 92127 Work:858-521-5562 Fax: 858-385-8810 Cell:858-361-2068 -Original Message- From: Gnupg-us

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Mo 08.07.2013, 04:30:32 schrieb Henry Hertz Hobbit: > Until Werner, Richard Stallman and the other GNU people announce > a competition for a GnuPG mascot or say otherwise, the GNU is the > official GnuPG mascot. I didn't write "mascot for GnuPG". I don't want people, companies and other organ

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/08/2013 01:07 AM, Werewolf wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:24:27AM +1000, Fraser Tweedale wrote: >> How about an armadillo? > > Or a Masked armadillo? There is no such critter. There are naked-tailed, long-nosed, and hairy Armadillos but no Masked Armadillo. There is even a Pink Fairy

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-07 Thread eMyListsDDg
Hello Henry, > On 07/07/2013 03:10 AM, eMyListsDDg wrote: >> now i'm finding out after moving from XP to Win7 that i can't >> edit my keys or decrypt email test messages. >> the passphrases to decrypt i have aren't working from command >> line or my email app. >> during migration i copied all

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-07 Thread eMyListsDDg
Hello Johan, i checked that. chars are typing correctly. i keep all passwords in a password database. i copied/pasted & typed what i thought should be the correct passphrase. gpg2 returns "invalid". keyboard is a new microsoft sidewinder x4 but chars/keys are mapping fine with it. appreciat

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Werewolf
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 10:24:27AM +1000, Fraser Tweedale wrote: > How about an armadillo? Or a Masked armadillo? Wolf signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listi

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Fraser Tweedale
How about an armadillo? On Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 11:09:20PM +0200, Randolph D. wrote: > http://www.pierros.de/images/Masken_Larven_Larve_Domina_schwarz.jpg > > 2013/7/7 reynt0 : > > On 07.07.2013, Hauke Laging wrote: > > . . . > > > >> Linux has its cuddly penguin, BSD its devil, openSUSE the > >

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Randolph D.
http://www.pierros.de/images/Masken_Larven_Larve_Domina_schwarz.jpg 2013/7/7 reynt0 : > On 07.07.2013, Hauke Laging wrote: > . . . > >> Linux has its cuddly penguin, BSD its devil, openSUSE the >> chameleon... Whether the GNU gnu increases the fun factor >> is a difficult question... ;-) >> >> I

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 17:19:02 -0400 Robert J. Hansen articulated: > On 07/07/2013 01:02 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > > This very much depends on how important the encrypted information is > > considered to be. > > Find me some verifiable instance of OpenPGP passphrases being > brute-forced and I'll ta

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 07/07/2013 01:02 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > This very much depends on how important the encrypted information is > considered to be. Find me some verifiable instance of OpenPGP passphrases being brute-forced and I'll take this seriously. Until then, I will continue to treat brute-forcing as the

Re: Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread reynt0
On 07.07.2013, Hauke Laging wrote: . . . Linux has its cuddly penguin, BSD its devil, openSUSE the chameleon... Whether the GNU gnu increases the fun factor is a difficult question... ;-) I guess it would be good to have something like that for OpenPGP. Something that people both like and rec

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-07 Thread Johan Wevers
On 7-7-2013 5:10, eMyListsDDg wrote: > now i'm finding out after moving from XP to Win7 that i can't edit my keys or > decrypt email test messages. Perhaps you accidentily changed the keyboard layout? Non-US versions of windows activate those pesky "dead keys" by default. Even Ubuntu seems to d

Re: not recognizing my passphrase after moving from XP to Win7

2013-07-07 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/07/2013 03:10 AM, eMyListsDDg wrote: > now i'm finding out after moving from XP to Win7 that i can't > edit my keys or decrypt email test messages. > > the passphrases to decrypt i have aren't working from command > line or my email app. > > during migration i copied all the files from > \

Win 7 64bit - 0 chance GnuPG / (Thunderbird-plugin)enigmail zu installieren ??

2013-07-07 Thread W.Rog.
Hallo, Win 7 64bit - keine Chance GnuPG / (Thunderbird-plugin)enigmail zu installieren ?? I have installed Win7-64bit and Thunderbird. Have I no chance to install GnuPG / enigmail-plugin in Thunderbird? Sorry, I#m a newbie. kindly regards -- Gruß von W.Rogalinski, Berlin _

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Nobody with two brain cells to rub together is going to try > brute-forcing either the crypto or your passphrase. This very much depends on how important the encrypted information is considered to be. However, I agree that most probably no one is especial

Do we need / want (or already have) a mascot for OpenPGP?

2013-07-07 Thread Hauke Laging
Hello, for the first time in history(?) cryptography has become a subject for mainstream media. Over the last weeks my web page got a visitors increate of 600+% for the key word "openpgp". That's nice but crypto still has a "rather low" fun factor. I don't claim that the fun factor is the deci

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 07.07.2013, 10:18:46 schrieb atair: > So, following your suggestions, I (c|sh)ould do: > 1.1. create one master key for signing on a save environment e.g. live > CD, USB flash disk. The mainkey is primary for certification (this refers to key components), not really for signing (which refe

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 07/07/2013 08:03 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > Or the other way 'round: why use (waste?) a lot of bits on > cryptography when it's much "easier" to bruteforce the > password itself? Nobody with two brain cells to rub together is going to try brute-forcing either the crypto or your passphrase. Nobo

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Hauke Laging
Am So 07.07.2013, 09:42:59 schrieb Heinz Diehl: > will calculate your passwords entropy in bits. Your 19-chars password > accounts for 124 bits of entropy, which is nearly half of AES-256's > strength (there are P^L different passwords). You're missing several important points: 1) AES is conside

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > A keyspace of 2^124 is nowhere near half of > 2^255; it's not even particularly close to the square root of 2^255. Thanks for clarifying, you are (of course) right. Didn't think for a second before posting :-( However, I wanted to demonstrate the relatio

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread atair
Thanks for the replies, On 7/6/13, Hauke Laging wrote: > That's a strange argument for several reasons. The most important being: Why > should just one key be compromised if they are used on the same system? > Wouldn't it make more sense to put the saved effort for creating 19 > additional > keys

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 07/07/2013 03:42 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: > will calculate your passwords entropy in bits. Your 19-chars password > accounts for 124 bits of entropy, which is nearly half of AES-256's > strength (there are P^L different passwords). Not hardly. Theoretically speaking [*], AES-256 will fall to bru

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-07 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 07.07.2013, Hauke Laging wrote: > Even with the default settings a 19-digits passphrase (upper and lower case > ASCII letters and digits) is as hard as AES (without flaws). When you take all printable ASCII-chars as "headroom", with B = entropy in bits L = length of the passphrase P = am