Re: Generating 4096 bit key fails – why?

2015-11-17 Thread Felix E. Klee
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 3:09 AM, NIIBE Yutaka wrote: > Here is a fix. It will be in the next release. > > http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=c5a9fedba66361ddd9f596528882750068543298 Thanks! Any idea when the next release is scheduled to be available? I tried installi

best practices for creating keys

2015-11-17 Thread James
All, I'm just dipping my toes into GPG and am making a significant effort to "do things right" out of the gate. Based on my research, it is my understanding that "best practices" dictate we should have one master key with subkeys for specific purposes (personal work, "work" work, etc.). The maste

backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread James
All, I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any ignorant questions. (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private and public keys? I've seen some "paper" methods (paperkey) and some GitHub gists that have taken the private key, broken it in severa

Re: best practices for creating keys

2015-11-17 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 17/11/15 12:32, James wrote: > > Based on my research, it is my understanding that "best practices" > dictate we should have one master key with subkeys for specific > purposes (personal work, "work" work, etc.). The master key is kept on > an "offline" computer and then used only to revoke par

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 17/11/15 12:39, James wrote: > All, > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. > > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? I've seen some "paper" methods (paperkey) and some > GitHub gists that

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 11/17/2015 1:39 PM, James wrote: > All, > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. No need to apologize: that's how we all learn. > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? I've seen some "pape

Re: best practices for creating keys

2015-11-17 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 11/17/2015 1:32 PM, James wrote: > All, > > I'm just dipping my toes into GPG and am making a significant effort > to "do things right" out of the gate. Welcome! > Based on my research, it is my understanding that "best practices" > dictate we should have one master key with subkeys for speci

Re: best practices for creating keys

2015-11-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Is this accurate? Not really, no. One of the weirdest things about OpenPGP (and, by extension, GnuPG) is that it provides a great deal of mechanism and very little in the way of policy. As a result, it's incredibly difficult to speak about best practices in specific terms. What's good practic

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. Honest questions get honest and accurate answers. Can't beat that for customer service, can you? :) > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? Not really

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Thomas Harning Jr.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 17/11/15 12:39, James wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > > ignorant questions. > > > > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > > and public keys

Re: Generating 4096 bit key fails – why?

2015-11-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:12, felix.k...@inka.de said: > Any idea when the next release is scheduled to be available? We encountered some regression right before the usual monthly release date and thus we postponed that release. We now plan for some time in the next week. Salam-Shalom, Werner