RE: Need recommendation on keyserver code

2008-05-12 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >>> I have sent mail to the SKS author to see if he has any ideas. >>Good luck. :) > Probably need it. It has been a chore to get anything working with SKS. > Probably since I am using a version of > Fedora 9 out of Rawhide... A new version

RE: Need recommendation on keyserver code

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Todd Zullinger wrote: > Alan Olsen wrote: >> Those patches do not fix my build problems. (It is running out of >> memory compiling numerix.ml.) >Odd. I built it again before sending the patches, on an up to date Fedora 8

RE: Need recommendation on keyserver code

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Todd Zullinger wrote: >Alan Olsen wrote: >> 5) Eventually I want to package at least one keyserver for Fedora. >IIRC from when I built SKS on Fedora 8, the main issue was updating the code >to the newer >Berkely DB. I didn&

RE: Need recommendation on keyserver code

2008-05-07 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John P. Clizbe wrote: >Alan Olsen wrote: >> I need to build a private keyserver for interanl use. > >> I have not seen anything else that handles subkeys. >> >> Any recommendations? >Sorry I missed this earlier.

RE: how long should a password be?

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > Everyone says it should be as long as possible, but there comes a point > where it's just impossible to remember anything longer than 20 > characters. What do you think? Passwords should be as many characters as you can remember plus one. Actua

Need recommendation on keyserver code

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I need to build a private keyserver for interanl use. I have tried to get SKS to build, but I have never been able to get it to work. (The project seems to be almost abandoned.) I am using Fedora 9 on an x86_64 box with 4 gigs of ram and Numerix

RE: urgent gpg help needed with regards to file size.

2008-03-20 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of khurram.humayun >Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:45 AM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: urgent gpg help needed with regards to file size. >i also know i am using the correct publ

RE: Corporate use of gnupg

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >From: Nicholas Cole >Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:54 AM >To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org >Subject: Re: Corporate use of gnupg >On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 1:23 PM, David Picón Álvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I know that ADK can be circumvent

RE: Safe decryption with GnuPG?

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >From: Krzysztof Zelechowski >Dnia 12-02-2008, Wt o godzinie 11:59 +0100, Anders Breindahl pisze: >> Hello, >> >> On 200802010958, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: >> > 1. The decrypted information must not make it to any persistent >> > medium >>

RE: IDEA

2008-01-29 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Werner Koch >I also consider helping an idea patenter by linking to his web site a bad >idea. > That company has several times tried to force me to advertise that the gnupg > docs sh

RE: Problem with keys imported via DNS CERT

2008-01-25 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex >Based on what everyone is saying, the following warning, >"There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user" should appear for >_every_ key I import if the key is not

IDEA licensing issues

2008-01-21 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have been trying to find what it takes to get a license for using IDEA with gpg. All attempts to connect to www.mediacrypt.com have been unsuccesful. Anyone know what is going on with this company? Thanks. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

RE: Question about history of hash and cipher collections

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > From David Shaw >On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:09:40AM -0800, Alan Olsen wrote: >> >> > From: David Shaw >> >> > Yes. "gpg -v --version" will give you the algorithm numbers along >> > with t

RE: Question about history of hash and cipher collections

2008-01-14 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > From: David Shaw > Yes. "gpg -v --version" will give you the algorithm numbers along > with the algorithm names. However, the algorithm numbers are not > really relevant to anything unless you're writing OpenPGP software. > For years now, all p

RE: [Slightly OT] Just to celebrate GnuPG's 10th birthday!

2007-12-21 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 >From: Ingo Klöcker >On Friday 21 December 2007, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/hsaito/2125495667/ >> >> Yum-Yum. The question is just how we cut the slices for all users.

RE: [Announce] GnuPG's 10th birthday

2007-12-21 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 There were other issues back in those days. MIT was forced to use the RSAREF library which had a non free license. At first they used the RSAREF2 library, but then they were told to use the RSAREF1 library. (I diffed the two libraries and determ

RE: Looking for missing Lib modules

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [Sorry for the top posting. Crappy Outlook makes anything else difficult/impossible.] If you are using OS X, don't use Fink. Just build the packages yourself from source. (The compilers are on the devel disc that comes with OS X.) It works fin

GPG 1.4.x v.s 2.x

2007-12-20 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The place I work needs to upgrade gpg badly. They know this. The question is do they go with the 1.4.x tree or should they go to the 2.x codebase? Suggestions? Recommendations? We get files from clients all over the world. Are there features u

Validating encrypted files

2007-12-07 Thread Alan Olsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I have encountered something that does not seem to be covered by any of the FAQs, manuals, or other general hints. I figured I might find a couple of good hints here. I have a number of files that I have received. I can decrypt them or not. I