Re: Best practice to use several smartcards for a single key?

2020-12-13 Thread Nicolas Boullis
Hi, Thanks to you and Erich for your answers. On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 06:45:46PM +0100, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > > As far as I understand it, for encryption, if I have several encryption > > subkeys, people who send me encrypted messages will encrypt for single > > subkey. > > Yes, unless they e

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-13 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
I will release tomorrow, if time permits, the GUI based versions, on GitHUb, created with the help of the fyne toolkit. https://ibb.co/rxYcXvq Regards Stefan On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 4:11 PM Stefan Claas wrote: > > Hi all, > > while playing with hashcat, diceware passphrases and entropy > checke

Re: Best practice to use several smartcards for a single key?

2020-12-13 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 13 Dec 2020, at 11:08, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > My idea was that there was little chance that a smartcard fails (Werner > Koch told me that the failure I experienced was exceptionnal) and if it > does I can set up a new encryption key and, using the second smartcard, > decrypt all the

Re: Best practice to use several smartcards for a single key?

2020-12-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2020 12:06:21 CET Nicolas Boullis wrote: > > > As a bonus question: given that my “master” private key is also stored > > > on a smartcard, is there a way to ask GnuPG to generate a signature > > > subkey on a second smartcard, while signing it with the first smartcard? > >

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-13 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2020 22:20:04 CET Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > I will release tomorrow, if time permits, the GUI based versions, > on GitHUb, created with the help of the fyne toolkit. I'm sorry, but in my opinion this is snake oil. If you think that you can increase entropy ("r

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-13 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 10:49 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Sonntag, 13. Dezember 2020 22:20:04 CET Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > > I will release tomorrow, if time permits, the GUI based versions, > > on GitHUb, created with the help of the fyne toolkit. > > I'm sorry, but in my opinion t

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 22:20 +0100, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > I will release tomorrow, if time permits, the GUI based versions, > on GitHUb, created with the help of the fyne toolkit. > > https://ibb.co/rxYcXvq This is snake oil. Please do not use it. Stefan's claims are not rooted i

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
> I guess you have not read my initial posting ... otherwise you would > think different and would not say so ... Stefan, I read your original posting and I completely concur with Ingo. > The program is not only for GnuPG usage Please explain to me who might benefit from this. Seriously. If pe