Re: Changes in GnuPG

2020-01-09 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> @rjh: I guess you will now remark about random_seed, but I don't think > tha this is anymore an issue with modern versions. The entropy > gathering changed quite a bit in the 2.2 and we may eventually remove > that file. (Due to the new JitterRNG which is sufficient on Windows and > the faster

Re: Changes in GnuPG

2020-01-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 13:01, Mark said: > Thanks for the explantion of the new public key format. If I understand > it correctly, the old system was like a flat file an this new one is > more like an indexed database that allows faster lookups. Right. The keybox format includes meta data so that t

Re: Changes in GnuPG

2020-01-09 Thread Mark
Robert, Thanks for the explantion of the new public key format. If I understand it correctly, the old system was like a flat file an this new one is more like an indexed database that allows faster lookups. On 1/7/2020 12:37 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I'm still a bit confused on the changes i

Re: Changes in GnuPG

2020-01-09 Thread Mark
Damien, Thanks for the explanation on the keygrips. That makes sense why it is some "random" set of characters.  I understand (I think) it is acting like a place marker but still trying to understand the why part. I guess I need to export my keys to make it accessible to other apps that use PGP

Re: Re-sign subkey binding with changed digest?

2020-01-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:37, Andrew Gallagher said: > Have you tried changing the subkey expiry? Or does that reuse the same hash? That is what I would also suggest. The expire sub-command is useful for all such things. It should always use the current default digest algorithms. Regarding the SH