Re: gpg rejects SHA224 with DSA-2048

2009-11-08 Thread David Shaw
u can use either 224-bit or 256- bit hashes with DSA-2048. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: gpg rejects SHA224 with DSA-2048

2009-11-08 Thread David Shaw
all versions of GPG would (correctly) allow the use of SHA-224 with this key. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-04 Thread David Shaw
nt. Amazon does all that for you (and charges you for it, of course). Given Amazon's size, they can generally do the messy part of managing hundreds of machines (especially since they are virtual machines) cheaper than you can. David ___ Gnupg

Interesting article on password guessing via cloud computing

2009-11-04 Thread David Shaw
having to manage the racks and racks of running hardware. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: FSFE Fellower Card + LUKS on Startup

2009-11-04 Thread David Lais
Sorry, I have sent this message only one time. I have no idea why this happend! :-( Am Mittwoch, 4. November 2009 13:10:52 schrieb gerry_lowry (alliston ontario canada (705) 250-0112): > David . you are sending this over and over and over . I have > this message 21

RE: gpg.conf

2009-11-04 Thread David Gray
Hi Michel, Thanks for the information, most useful. Regards David -Original Message- From: gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Michel Messerschmidt Sent: 02 November 2009 11:10 To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: gpg.conf On Mon

FSFE Fellower Card + LUKS on Startup

2009-11-03 Thread David Lais
? Has anyone ever tried it in a similar way or are there any alternatives? Finally, is there a HowTo? I would be very happy for any kind of information. Thanks, David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/lis

RE: gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
ount needs to see the keyrings owned by Administrator. Apart from that it's good to see what else can be changed and the skeleton you sent me is a good place to begin. Regards Dave -Original Message- From: John Clizbe [mailto:j...@mozilla-enigmail.org] Sent: 02 November 20

gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
Hi Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)? The pdf manual which gets installed with this kit contains no references and the readme only tells me that gpg.conf gets created during install. I w

RE: No secret key under different account

2009-11-02 Thread David Gray
xample of the syntax for adding keyring references to gpg.conf? Thanks Dave -Original Message- From: gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of John Clizbe Sent: 30 October 2009 21:27 To: GnuPG Users Subject: Re: No secret key under different accou

Re: Question about syntax of a command

2009-10-30 Thread David Shaw
? I read the manual, but got confused about that... gpg --cipher-algo 3des --symmetric David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

RE: No secret key under different account

2009-10-30 Thread David Gray
t: 30 October 2009 14:43 To: David Gray Subject: RE: No secret key under different account Logon to the server as the account you wish to use to encrypt the files. Import public key as you did prior and sign the key as you did prior. This worked for me. I am not in my office, but there are 2 command

Re: No secret key under different account

2009-10-30 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 30, 2009, at 10:24 AM, David Gray wrote: Hello all, GPG 2.0.12 Windows Server 2003 I've written a C# application which scans for input files and decrypts using GPG. This applications works fine when run under the account (Administrator) that GPG was installed under but whe

No secret key under different account

2009-10-30 Thread David Gray
Hello all, GPG 2.0.12 Windows Server 2003 I've written a C# application which scans for input files and decrypts using GPG. This applications works fine when run under the account (Administrator) that GPG was installed under but when run from a different account (SQLService) I get this err

can't connect to `C:/Program Files/GNU/GnuPG//S.gpg-agent'

2009-10-29 Thread David Gray
Hi, Has anyone got any idea how to resolve the following error: can't connect to `C:/Program Files/GNU/GnuPG//S.gpg-agent' I get this error when issuing the following command gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch --output out.dat --decrypt in.pgp This worked fine until a few days ago but now it won

Re: A Couple of Questions...

2009-10-25 Thread David Shaw
thing that does the decrypting/ verifying needs GPG. If that thing is your local machinse, then your local machines need GPG. If that thing is the mail server, then your mail server needs GPG. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gn

Re: verification/installation

2009-10-22 Thread David Shaw
agine this is automated. If you see results when you do a --search-keys, just enter the number in parentheses, next to the key. GPG will use the same keyserver to retrieve and import the key. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnup

Re: A lot of questions about CERT, PKA and make-dns-cert

2009-10-20 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, David Shaw wrote: On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:37 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I'm running: echo foo | gpg -v -v --auto-key-locate cert --recipient gu...@gushi.org --encrypt -a And get gpg:

Re: gpg-agent "unknown value for WHAT"

2009-10-20 Thread David Savage
Firstly, thx for the quick replies. I'm in the process of updating gpg using the urls Charly forwarded in the previous email - I guess I could try to just update the gpg-agent in use on my machine from that release then stick with the mac port version of gpg? Just one less variable to tidy up? So

gpg-agent "unknown value for WHAT"

2009-10-20 Thread David Savage
Hi there, I'm attempting to generate a 4096bit RSA key using gnupg 2.0.12 and gpg-agent 2.0.11 but I'm getting an error message prior to entering the passphrase: "gpg: problem with the agent: Not supported" Having done a little digging I decided to enable --debug-all to see if this would shed an

Re: A lot of questions about CERT, PKA and make-dns-cert

2009-10-15 Thread David Shaw
not CERT. It's ugly, but it was the least common denominator. It has been a few years since then. Possibly it's time to upgrade. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

RE: Testing the exit status

2009-10-12 Thread David Gray
compatible with GPG v2. Contacted the auther who is looking at an upgrade. Regards David -Original Message- From: Werner Koch [mailto:w...@gnupg.org] Sent: 12 October 2009 11:00 To: David Gray Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Testing the exit status On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:2

Re: gpg-agent --daemon running in foreground

2009-10-12 Thread David Shaw
agent without it backgrounding by leaving off the "--daemon" option. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Key types

2009-10-12 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 11, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Jim Dever wrote: Just a quick question: Are there any caveats I should be aware of if I generate an RSA signing key with an Elgamal encryption subkey? No caveats. In fact, my own key is exactly that. David

gpgme on Windows

2009-10-12 Thread David Gray
Hi all, Been doing some searching this morning to see if gpgme is available for Windows and can be used commercially. Is anyone using this product on Windows under .net 3.5 (C#) that can give advice? Also does anyone know where the Windows download site is? Thanks in advance Dave Regis

RE: Testing the exit status

2009-10-12 Thread David Gray
ctober 2009 15:14 To: David Gray Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Testing the exit status On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:47, david.g...@turpin-distribution.com said: > Does GPG return different status codes when it exits? > I'm specifically looking for different types of error, such >

Testing the exit status

2009-10-09 Thread David Gray
Hi, Does GPG return different status codes when it exits? I'm specifically looking for different types of error, such as file not found, key not found, invalid passphrase etc. I'm using the Windows version if that makes any difference. Rgds Dave Registered Office: Turpin Distribution Servic

Re: Decryption Fails on UserName but not on EmailAddress ???

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
sure: do a "gpg --list-keys username" to see all keys that match that name. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
havior optional doesn't really resolve that, as to be useful, you want this sort of key-picking behavior to be the default (I might even argue that if we do it, it shouldn't be something that could be switched off, as at least there would be only 1 confusing behavio

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-25 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:13 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Shaw wrote: On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:30 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, about the first "tidbit": On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw wrote: First of all, someone has factored a 512-b

Re: Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-24 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:30 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, about the first "tidbit": On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw wrote: First of all, someone has factored a 512-bit RSA key (the one used to protect a TI programmable calculator, it seems). It took 73 days on a

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-22 Thread David Shaw
user asks gpg to encrypt something to a name or User ID. Is that right? or are there other circumstances in gpg where the "choose the first matching User ID" heuristic is used? It's used everywhere user IDs are referenced in the product. --

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-22 Thread David Shaw
nfuse anyone. Yes, it's wrong for some situations. But every behavior is wrong for some situations. This particular "wrong" behavior has almost 20 years of history behind it. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Two tidbits of potential interest

2009-09-22 Thread David Shaw
re Guide to AES: http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: choosing an encryption target from a User ID

2009-09-22 Thread David Shaw
quot; since the beginning, as did (old) PGP[1]. That behavior is baked deeply into systems. David [1] PGP has a GUI nowadays, so this sort of thing doesn't apply in the same way any longer. I don't have my copy of PGP command line online at the moment, so I can't check

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread David Shaw
e a year) is that PGP 2.x used it back in the 1990s. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-21 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 21, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Johan Wevers wrote: David Shaw wrote: If the "some people" still want this, I haven't seen it in a good long while. Possibly they gave up asking. Probably. However, if someone wants IDEA support for whatever reason there is still the IDEA p

Re: which version is install

2009-09-18 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:46 AM, FOAD FOAD wrote: Hi, I want to know which version of gpg is install on my openbsd, could you tell me how to do ? Type "gpg --version" David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists

Re: I forgot about the meaning of some options...

2009-09-18 Thread David Shaw
erences. The most highly ranked cipher in this list is also used for the --symmetric encryption command. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 16, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: David Shaw wrote: Whether this means IDEA is okay or not patent-wise, I have a slightly different take on this: who cares about IDEA at this point? IDEA was good back in the 90s and PGP 2.x. It's 2009 now, and we have better ciphers

Re: IDEA patent vs the recent USPTO memorandum

2009-09-16 Thread David Shaw
his point? IDEA was good back in the 90s and PGP 2.x. It's 2009 now, and we have better ciphers than IDEA, a massive installed software base that doesn't use IDEA, and nobody is suffering for the lack of IDEA. If IDEA was suddenly not patented, none

Re: Hash algo for signing - documentation

2009-09-15 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 15, 2009, at 9:42 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote: Hi all. This is a query mostly for my own interest, but I think it might point to a change in the documentation being required. I was slightly confused by this message http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2009-May/036361.html David

Re: One Private Key on Two or more OpenPGP 2.0 cards?

2009-09-13 Thread David Shaw
pg --card- status" (this re-creates the stub for the card you use regularly) If you ever want to use a different smartcard, you will need to delete your secret key, insert the card, and do a "gpg --card-status" to recreate the stub for that card. David ___

Re: Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?

2009-09-12 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 12, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: David Shaw wrote: I can't speak to the MyKey device, but I have a SCR3320 and it works just fine with GnuPG and the v2 card. Great, thanks for the info. One more question, does your reader look like [1] or like [2]? I must say I lik

Re: Does the SCM SCR3320 work with GnuPG?

2009-09-12 Thread David Shaw
t I have a SCR3320 and it works just fine with GnuPG and the v2 card. I like the smaller "USB stick" form factor a lot more than the larger "credit card" sized cards. They're much easier to deal with when you don't have smartcard readers wherever you go. David

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
r of being hit by meteors several times in a row as you walk to your friend's house with the USB stick, than you are in danger from SHA-1. :) David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
ormat. Perhaps some of you (David?) remember the discussion that took place here and on the WG list some time ago about things like: - how criticality and critical bit could be handled much stricter - potential problems that arise because conforming implementation are only recommended to ignore signatur

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
"Could" is a very powerful word. At some point, people have to buy and run the closed-source hardware they need to run their open-source software on :) David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 10, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi folks. On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:08 -0400, David Shaw wrote: The real headache here is (as always) the practical - what to do with existing keys and such. I suspect that removing SHA1 would effectively mean a new key type for

Re: OpenPGP 2.0 and Hushmail keys

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
her things), along with a pointer that says "the key is on smartcard XYZ". So if they can get ahold of your computer, someone could steal this stub, but there is nothing secret about it, and it won't do them any good. David ___ Gnupg

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
s RSA or DSA in this example though, and then there is Mechani-Kong, and Lady Kong, and... ;) David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-10 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Philippe Cerfon wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:45 AM, David Shaw wrote: Yes, but it won't actually go away completely. SHA1 is special in OpenPGP. Unlike the other hashes, SHA1 is required to be supported. Removing SHA1 from an OpenPGP preference

Re: howto secure older keys after the recent attacks

2009-09-09 Thread David Shaw
t the wonderful defaults in GPG. They're the default algorithms for a reason. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: How do I use gpg to decrypt encrypted files????

2009-09-09 Thread David Shaw
y GPGShell? http://www.jumaros.de/ David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: How do I use gpg to decrypt encrypted files????

2009-09-09 Thread David Shaw
under, do: gpg -o file-to-save-the-decrypted-data-in my-file-to-decrypt.asc What is the correct procedure to decrypt a file thta has been encrypted with my public key? And is there no way to use some kind of GUI tool to do this so the masses of option codes are automaticall

Re: RSA only enable to sign

2009-09-08 Thread David Shaw
re can create a useless (for your purposes) key, they are available only to experts (or to call them other way, to not-newbies). Just right. As a general rule, people should never need --expert to do regular OpenPGP-ish things (make keys, encrypt stuff

Re: Cant get Fellowship card to work

2009-09-06 Thread David Shaw
pcsc or the built-in card driver? What platform are you using? David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: encrypting compression algorithms

2009-09-05 Thread David Shaw
On Sep 5, 2009, at 8:59 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: Hi David, thank you. On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:11 PM, David Shaw wrote: On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:53 PM, M.B.Jr. wrote: How do I know which compression algorithm was used? Unless you've overridden the default, it is ZIP. Ok but in this

Re: encrypting compression algorithms

2009-09-05 Thread David Shaw
uot;, "zip", "zlib", or "bzip2". Note that bzip2 is only available if your GPG was built with the bzip2 library. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: CAMELLIA

2009-09-05 Thread David Shaw
cent enough) supports it. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: what is the HEX signature off a normal *.gpg file . for EmailFilter - BCC Mail protect Quarant

2009-09-04 Thread David Shaw
SIGNED\040MESSAGE- signed message >15 string PGP\040SIGNATURE- signature 0 beshort 0x8501 data David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Secret Key replacement

2009-09-02 Thread David Shaw
e you'd have to type it multiple times as the shell loop ran), but no passphrases is also a common setup for automated use. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: 1.4.10rc1 vs. OS X 10.6

2009-09-02 Thread David Shaw
. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: LZMA Compression

2009-08-31 Thread David Shaw
than that. That said, adding algorithms to OpenPGP - especially compression algorithms which have no security impact - is fairly easy to do. I suggest taking your suggestion to the ietf-openpgp mailing list. The folks there are very happy to discuss such things.

Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-28 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 28, 2009, at 2:37 AM, Faramir wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: ... Incidentally, there have been proposals to add forward security extensions to OpenPGP. See http://www.apache-ssl.org/openpgp-pfs.txt As a side note, I am not sure I like

Re: rotating encryption sub keys

2009-08-27 Thread David Shaw
d security extensions to OpenPGP. See http://www.apache-ssl.org/openpgp-pfs.txt David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-27 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 27, 2009, at 10:36 AM, John Betz wrote: I appreciate the offer David, but I don't have PowerArchiver so I can't create a sample input file. The file I am trying to decrypt is coming from another source so I would have to get them involved in order to create a sample ar

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-26 Thread David Shaw
On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:38 AM, John Betz wrote: David, The file is a PowerArchiver file (containing multiple text files) that was encrypted using PGP. I'm not sure if that file is legal according to the OpenPGP spec. It depends on how it was packed together. If you can encrypt a s

Re: Help with decrypting gpg file

2009-08-25 Thread David Shaw
the first record. If I rename the file (or create it) with a .zip extension and try to open it with WinZip it does not recognize the file as an archive file. When I do the same operation with PGP there is no problem. How was the file encrypted in the first place? David

Re: Confused about signing inline vs siging with attached signature.

2009-08-21 Thread David Koppenhofer
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I decided to try sending my email with a signature attached instead of using > an inline signature. Now my friend with Outlook Express is telling me that the > message body is blank and that in order for him to see the message, he now has > to o

Re: Practical Advice for those using AES256 cipher?

2009-08-19 Thread David Shaw
ow it relates to GnuPG, I wouldn't bother to do anything about it, personally, but if it worries you, you can easily rank AES128 higher than AES256 in your preferences (or even remove AES256 altogether if you like). Either way you're probably fine. David

Re: Updating a signature

2009-08-17 Thread David Shaw
make a new signature with the details you want (the policy URL, etc). You can revoke the earlier signature, but in practice it's usually simpler to just ignore it since the new signature replaces the older one in trust calculations.

Re: Changes in 1.4.10

2009-08-17 Thread David Shaw
ke best don't matter. You're the sender, and your wishes (via --personal-cipher-preferences and friends) trump all. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-13 Thread David Shaw
lieve Perry Metzger was referring to the US courts, this post is still well worth reading. I doubt the situation is vastly different outside of the US: http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptogra...@metzdowd.com/msg10391.html David ___ Gnupg-users ma

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-13 Thread David SMITH
ossibility of malicious intentions - trying to frame someone by putting encrypted data onto someone's computer and tipping off the authorities. -- David Smith| Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 462305 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 64

Re: Two convicted in U.K. for refusal to decrypt data

2009-08-13 Thread David SMITH
that the RIP bill was being pushed through about the difficulty of proving that you don't have access to a particular piece of information. The RIPA is a particularly nasty piece of legislation in this respect. -- David Smith| Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMic

Re: GPG on iSeries (AS400)

2009-08-11 Thread David Shaw
ou'd compile it anywhere else. If it's OS/400, you might take a look at running it under PASE. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Entropy-on-a-key

2009-08-11 Thread David Shaw
This is cute: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ (Reasonably on-topic as the device would work with GnuPG (at least on Linux), as it seems to feed /dev/random) David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman

Re: Setting up SKS Keyserver

2009-08-11 Thread David Shaw
latest official release. On sks- devel there are usually a handful of patches and bug fixes being discussed before they are rolled into the official release. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Transferring GnuPG accounts

2009-08-07 Thread David Shaw
s it do? There just isn't any information to go on here. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: latest stable version of GnuPG that decrypts Adobe PDF files

2009-07-31 Thread David Shaw
lt-in PDF encryption, and if so, the answer is no. GnuPG cannot decrypt PDF files unless they are encrypted with OpenPGP (PGP, GnuPG, etc). David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: list of OpenPGP implementations [was: Re: Changing GPG's default key type?]

2009-07-30 Thread David Shaw
had a smartcard reader where you were going. The new cards can be punched for use in a SIM type reader, so the card plus the reader is the same size as a USB "thumb drive" stick. The smaller form factor makes a dramatic improvement in the user experience for me. David ___

Re: list of OpenPGP implementations [was: Re: Changing GPG's default key type?]

2009-07-30 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:23 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Hence, McAfee may be a much bigger player than people think. Is that an example of a potential problem implementation? Note that the McAfee product does support RSA (not surprising, given its ancestry). David

Re: Changing GPG's default key type?

2009-07-30 Thread David Shaw
ince 2002 and have never had even a single instance of someone not being able to use my key because their OpenPGP program didn't implement RSA. In short, I wouldn't worry about it. Use either DSA or RSA, and you should be fine. David _

Re: Changing GPG's default key type?

2009-07-30 Thread David Shaw
ple he plans on communicating with use GnuPG anyway), that number is vanishingly small. PGP in one form or another owns most of the OpenPGP market. GnuPG owns most of the rest. I wouldn't worry all that much. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-

Re: new AES 256 vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:17 PM, ved...@hush.com wrote: a new attack has been found against AES - 256 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html it only works against 10 round AES-256 (which normally has 16 rounds) It breaks 11 rounds of 14. David

Re: Public key crypto by hand

2009-07-30 Thread David SMITH
cally secure with a one-time pad. Of course, you then have the key exchange problem. -- David Smith| Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 462305 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West| TINA: 065 2380 GPG Key: 0xF13

Re: Encryption keys in the OpenPGP spec

2009-07-27 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 27, 2009, at 11:15 AM, James P. Howard, II wrote: On Sun Jul 26 2009 23:09:18 GMT-0400 (EST) , David Shaw wrote: Because it is difficult (or nearly impossible) to determine the difference from the perspective of GnuPG. That is, I as a person know what I'm encrypting and what I

Re: IT Department having the secure key.

2009-07-27 Thread David Shaw
ecipient. So encrypting to 10 recipients is a bit larger than encrypting to 1 recipient, but it is nowhere near as large as encrypting to 10 recipients individually. Any of the recipients can decrypt the data. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing l

Re: IT Department having the secure key.

2009-07-27 Thread David Shaw
nst trouble. For example, if we're just talking about email, you could tweak your mail server to check to see if the extra recipient was present and if not, reject the message, etc. I believe the PGP folks have some variant of this ability

Re: IT Department having the secure key.

2009-07-27 Thread David Shaw
to tell whether an attacker got just the passphrase, just the key file, or both. It's often easier and more prudent to assume that if the attacker got anything, they got both. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Encryption keys in the OpenPGP spec

2009-07-26 Thread David Shaw
rd even mentions it: Note however, that it is a thorny issue to determine what is "communications" and what is "storage". This decision is left wholly up to the implementation; the authors of this document do not claim any special wisdom on the issue and realize t

Re: 8192bit RSA keys

2009-07-09 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Roscoe wrote: On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:36 AM, David Shaw wrote: ... If you're looking for a more immediate reason, though, note that if you make a RSA key larger than 2048 bits you can't use it with the spiffy new OpenPGP smartcard. Oh, something

Re: Opinions on RIPEMD vs SHA?

2009-07-08 Thread David Shaw
es on this list, and instead jump right to the easy reason: RIPEMD160 is 160 bits long. SHA-2 is (at minimum) 224 bits long, and can go up to 512 bits long. 224 > 160. 512 is very > 160. Unless you think SHA-2 is actually weaker than RIPEMD160 som

Re: 8192bit RSA keys

2009-07-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Shaw wrote: | On Jul 6, 2009, at 4:21 AM, martin f krafft wrote: | |> Hey folks, |> |> Two years ago, there was a thread on this list, in which RSA key |> sizes >2048 were discussed [0]. In these two years, the crypto-world |&g

Re: gnupg not building with gcc4 and --enable-minimal option

2009-07-08 Thread David Shaw
st gnupg version ? What version of GPG are we talking about here? On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Senthilkumar .E wrote: gnupg-1.4.7 version has this problem Try the most recent 1.4.9. I believe this problem was fixed in 1.4.8. David ___ Gnupg-users

Re: 8192bit RSA keys

2009-07-08 Thread David Shaw
with a smaller key, you need to ask yourself what the big key actually buys you. If you're looking for a more immediate reason, though, note that if you make a RSA key larger than 2048 bits you can't use it with the spiffy new OpenPGP smartcard. David __

Re: gnupg not building with gcc4 and --enable-minimal option

2009-07-08 Thread David Shaw
). Is it fixed on the latest gnupg version ? What version of GPG are we talking about here? David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: algorithm 11 mistake mac

2009-07-07 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On Jul 7, 2009, at 6:02 PM, David Shaw wrote: Or are you asking if there is there a significant difference between SHA-256 truncated to 224 bits and straight SHA-224 in terms of hash strength? If so, no, there really isn't. SHA-2

Re: algorithm 11 mistake mac

2009-07-07 Thread David Shaw
sn't. SHA-224 in fact *is* a truncated SHA-256 with a different initialization. David ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

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