Re: Signature without policy meaningless? (was Re: UI terminology for calculated validities)

2014-05-03 Thread NdK
Il 03/05/2014 01:10, Daniel Kahn Gillmor ha scritto: Having such an assertion cryptographically bound to the OpenPGP certificate in parseable form implies in some sense that you think a mechanical process (e.g. WoT calculated validity) should be able to make use of it. But how would that

Re: Managing Subkeys for Professional and Personal UIDs

2014-05-03 Thread Martin Behrendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am 03.05.2014 05:01, schrieb Robert J. Hansen: And regardless of whether it's a good practice or a bad one, I've worked in businesses that have done exactly this -- so it's a real-world example that demonstrates the occasional need for a third

Re: Signature without policy meaningless? (was Re: UI terminology for calculated validities)

2014-05-03 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:54 AM, NdK ndk.cla...@gmail.com wrote: Il 03/05/2014 01:10, Daniel Kahn Gillmor ha scritto: Having such an assertion cryptographically bound to the OpenPGP certificate in parseable form implies in some sense that you think a mechanical process (e.g. WoT calculated

Re: Managing Subkeys for Professional and Personal UIDs

2014-05-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Personally, I would prefer not to discriminate against black people, for reasons that have already been expressed on the list. But if there's a corporate policy that says I have to, then that's the way you play the game. In which case, the proper response is to say I quit. That's a simple

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-05-03 Thread William Hay
On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:15:40 +0200 Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com wrote: On 25/04/14 00:19, Gabriel Niebler wrote: And Authenticity is an equally clear and additionally _intuitive_ descriptive name for the same simple, mechanistic concept. Validity naturally lends itself to the

Re: new keys vs. sub-keys vs. uids

2014-05-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 3 May 2014 at 2:08:35 AM, in mid:20140502200835.2cb51...@bigbox.christie.dr, gn...@tim.thechases.com wrote: However, after adding multiple uids and emailing an encrypted test message from the new UID (w...@example.com), I

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-05-03 Thread William Hay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Sat, 3 May 2014 17:28:56 +0100 MFPA 2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net wrote: Letters of introduction are not something one encounters much in the modern world one but tying the process to a physical analogue might make things easier

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-05-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 3 May 2014 at 7:56:55 PM, in mid:20140503195655.5c2df...@cerberus.dumain.com, William Hay wrote: In most cases this would have the opposite answer to the second question. It might make things simpler to combine them in

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-05-03 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Sa 03.05.2014, 22:33:14 schrieb MFPA: GnuPG only prompts you to pick a certification level if you enable the --ask-cert-level option, which is disabled by default. As far as I know, the level doesn't affect WoT calculations. Then let's extend your knowlege: --min-cert-level It's even

Re: UI terminology for calculated validities

2014-05-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 3 May 2014 at 10:47:22 PM, in mid:2123757.Pxcbtkot8g@inno, Hauke Laging wrote: Then let's extend your knowlege: --min-cert-level It's even explained in dkg's article which you point to. It says (users can change this cutoff