Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020 00:14:40 CEST LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users wrote: > English is not my native tongue, and the word I've chosen is based > on my interpretation of the dialog presented by the program when > generating the key: > > > GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key. >

Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users
On 5/21/20 10:52 AM, Ingo Klöcker - kloec...@kde.org wrote: On Donnerstag, 21. Mai 2020 00:14:40 CEST LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users wrote: I suppose you also entered an empty string for "Email address": `` > Real name: Email address: f...@example.com You selected this USER-ID: "f...@example.co

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-21 Thread Stefan Claas
Mark wrote: Hi, > Did a bit more experimenting with it.  You can have something only in > the first name field but it has to be a minimum of 5 characters and > the first one must be a letter. .. If you are familiar with GnuPG in command line mode you may try out sequoia pgp, which I compiled a Wi

Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 21/05/2020 14:34, LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users wrote: >> The proper thing for gpg program to do would be to allow the > personally identifiable information in the key to be optional, > and to warn the user generating such key that he will not be able > to participate in the Web of Trust. I think

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-21 Thread Mark H. Wood via Gnupg-users
On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:27:28PM -0700, Mark wrote: > Did a bit more experimenting with it.  You can have something only in > the first name field but it has to be a minimum of 5 characters and the > first one must be a letter. ..  *sigh* https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programme

Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> First, let me mention that Web of Trust is to me not a useful public > key verification mechanism, as it is compromises my privacy. Only if your sigs are exportable. Local sigs are a perfectly legitimate way to use the WoT. If Alice locally signs Bob's certificate and sets Bob up as a trusted

Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread Stefan Claas
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > First, let me mention that Web of Trust is to me not a useful > > public key verification mechanism, as it is compromises my privacy. > > Only if your sigs are exportable. Local sigs are a perfectly > legitimate way to use the WoT. If Alice locally signs Bob's > cer

Re: FW: gpg-agent connection errors

2020-05-21 Thread Ángel
On 2020-05-20 at 18:22 +, Kent A. Larsen wrote: > I've adding logging to our gpg-agent.conf file, and when these errors > occur the gpg-agent log file has the following error: > 2020-05-18 09:36:07 gpg-agent[3800] error binding socket to '\\Neofs1 > \Userapps\Apps\GnuPG\Keys\S.gpg-agent': Unkno

Re: "just invent something..."

2020-05-21 Thread Ángel
Given the number of people that still manage to create (and distribute) their keys with glaring mistakes, such as misspelling their own domain name/tld, or providing a key which doesn't match their email address. Too many people is sending and receiving openpgp emails by actually encrypting the co

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-21 Thread Mark
Thanks I may take a look at it and just see what it does. I'm still VERY much a novice in regards to all this so just trying to learn more. My "experiment" with Kleopatra was just to see if I could since it said "optional" for the name part.  Sorry, not sure who dkg is but have seen those initials

Re: keys require a user-id

2020-05-21 Thread Mark
That is very true.  I have a friend whose first name is M'Lou and she's had all kinds of issues when systems freak out over her first name. On 5/21/2020 6:48 AM, Mark H. Wood via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 03:27:28PM -0700, Mark wrote: >> Did a bit more experimenting with it.  Yo