Re: revoke last valid user ID

2019-07-22 Thread Teemu Likonen via Gnupg-users
i...@zeromail.org [2019-07-22T23:40:42+02] wrote: > Thanks, that sounds possible. But I wonder, if there is a reason GnuPG > won't let me revoke it directly - and if so, if that reasoning is > strong enough to not even have a way to override it. Since I have keys > with all user IDs revoked and I

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I think that’s the point security researchers like Schneier have been > trying to make: it is easy for all people — from grandparents who > still think they need AOL to chipheads who can install Arch without > watching a YouTube tutorial — to screw up encrypted email in a way > that exposes the

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users
I’m not so sure that it does.  I think that’s the point security researchers like Schneier have been trying to make: it is easy for all people — from grandparents who still think they need AOL to chipheads who can install Arch without watching a YouTube tutorial — to screw up encrypted email in

Re: revoke last valid user ID

2019-07-22 Thread ilf
Wiktor Kwapisiewicz: I'd try adding one dummy User ID, revoke the rest, then delete that dummy User ID before it gets sent to the keyserver. Thanks, that sounds possible. But I wonder, if there is a reason GnuPG won't let me revoke it directly - and if so, if that reasoning is strong enough

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Mark H. Wood via Gnupg-users
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:46:18PM +, Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote: >[1]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/details_on_a_ne.html > >� 3. Why is anyone using encrypted e-mail anymore, anyway? Reliably and >easily encrypting e-mail is an insurmountably hard problem

security of local keyring

2019-07-22 Thread metalevel
Hello, I want to use GPG for rather simple authentication of downloaded files. I made a test installation on a Windows box, then imported and validated (via fingerprint) the public keys of some sources. Now I have the following question. Is there some means of access control for the public

Re: revoke last valid user ID

2019-07-22 Thread Wiktor Kwapisiewicz via Gnupg-users
On 22.07.2019 19:28, ilf wrote: Is there a way to override this limitation? I'd try adding one dummy User ID, revoke the rest, then delete that dummy User ID before it gets sent to the keyserver. I guess you don't want to revoke the entire key... Kind regards, Wiktor

revoke last valid user ID

2019-07-22 Thread ilf
Doing more keyring housekeeping, I would like to all revoke user IDs of keypairs with revoked/expired certificates. However, I am getting this error: gpg: Cannot revoke the last valid user ID. This is also in the documentation: --quick-revoke-uid user-id user-id-to-revoke This command

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/details_on_a_ne.html“ 3. Why is anyone using encrypted e-mail anymore, anyway? Reliably and easily encrypting e-mail is an insurmountably hard problem for reasons having nothing to do with today's announcement. If you need to communicate securely,

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:07:32 -0400, Robert J. Hansen stated: > >> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big > >> and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP > >> and told me he had been working on a database program that made

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:07:32 -0400, Robert J. Hansen stated: >> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big >> and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP >> and told me he had been working on a database program that made this >> possible and

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big > and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP > and told me he had been working on a database program that made this > possible and spouted off terms I had never heard before. Yeah, these conspiracy

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Wiktor Kwapisiewicz via Gnupg-users
On 22.07.2019 11:26, Procopius via Gnupg-users wrote: I searched and determined the author is unknown from from what I could see. The author is Thomas H. Ptacek, here's contact info: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek FWIW he's known for criticizing crypto that he thinks is

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Craig T via Gnupg-users
Hey Ryan thanks for posting... and this response is not a poke at you, so dont take it personally! but ... groan... honestly who the fck are "latacora", and all the others who sprout shite they read somewhere and regurgitate elsewhere... Yeah I have been seeing posts like this pop up and with

Re: Essay on PGP as it is used today

2019-07-22 Thread Procopius via Gnupg-users
From Elwin in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada (visiting family) July 22, 2019 Ryan & gnupg-users, Concerning "Essay on PGP as it is used today" When I went to the link it said it said, "The PGP Problem" I searched and determined the author is unknown from from what I could see. The Essay