Re: Implications of a common private keys directory in 2.1

2016-12-12 Thread Carola Grunwald
Stephan Beck wrote: >Carola Grunwald: >> Peter Lebbing wrote: You mean --try-secret-key doesn't overrule the key parameter that comes along with the encoded material? >>> >>> No, it specifies which keys to try for a hidden recipient. This is easy >>> to investigate if you create a few

Smartcards and tokens

2016-12-12 Thread sivmu
Hi, recently I came across the toptic of hardware tokens for pgp keys and I am thinking about getting one myself. From what I have found so far there are several candidates such as the Openpgp smartcard, Yubikey and Nitrokey USB tokens. One question remaining is what is the difference between

Re: Strange behaviour

2016-12-12 Thread Stephan Beck
Peter Lebbing: > On 12/12/16 12:38, Stephan Beck wrote: >> You MIGHT consider having it expired as well, setting a decent expiry >> date (maybe, expiry within 2 or 3 years). > > No, I don't think that is good advice if given without a specific reason > to do so. Well, the specific reason is

Re: Implications of a common private keys directory in 2.1

2016-12-12 Thread Stephan Beck
Carola Grunwald: > Peter Lebbing wrote: > >> On 11/12/16 20:58, Carola Grunwald wrote: >>> With 'problems' i referred to the GenKey bug/feature I reported a few >>> hours ago and the IPC instabilities I experienced. Sure, the >>> single-sec-keys-depository : multiple-pub-keyrings configuration

Re: Recording keysigning attendants on phone

2016-12-12 Thread Stephan Beck
Lachlan Gunn: > Le 2016-12-08 à 22:30, Stephan Beck a écrit : >> Yes, to your first question. How you would do that via the >> hash-on-the-projector method, is not clear to me, though. Would that be >> for generating the (initial) list of the organizers as in Sassaman >> Efficient (as an

Re: Strange behaviour

2016-12-12 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 12/12/16 12:38, Stephan Beck wrote: > You MIGHT consider having it expired as well, setting a decent expiry > date (maybe, expiry within 2 or 3 years). No, I don't think that is good advice if given without a specific reason to do so. The expiry of a main key already establishes that others

Re: Strange behaviour

2016-12-12 Thread Stephan Beck
Matthias Mansfeld: > On 11 Dec 2016 at 20:43, Stephan Beck wrote: > >> I'm truly interested in receiving such log files to have a look >> into it myself, but the list may be interested as well. If there was >> really something "special" about (precisely) my signatures, as you >> say, I'd be

gpg-agent, multiple requests

2016-12-12 Thread Jenya Sovetkin
Hello everyone! recently I have encountered a problem with gpg-agent. When there are several simultaneous requests made for decryption, then gpg-agent "forgets" the passphrase and queries it again (for example when there are several cronjobs being invoked that require decryption). In other