Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
On 1/5/21 8:24 AM, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 07:27:14AM -0500, Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users wrote: Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obtained enigmail for my Firefox browser

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
igmail. So for me, it is pointless. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\ Red Hat Enterprise Linux ^^-^^ up 4 days, 13 hours, 37 minutes ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/list

Re: We have GOT TO make things simpler

2019-10-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
urity idiot proof. I had a realistic uncle who used to say, "You can always design a system to be fool-proof; but if you do, a damned-fool will come along. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey ^^-^^ 15:45:01 up 13 days, 21:19, 2 users

Re: Generating revocation certificate

2019-04-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer via Gnupg-users
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 -- .~. Jean-David Beyer /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B /( )

Re: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 2.2.8 released (CVE-2018-12020)

2018-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
3B6 >> Werner Koch (dist sig) >> >> rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2019-12-31] >> Key fingerprint = 46CC 7308 65BB 5C78 EBAB ADCF 0437 6F3E E085 6959 >> David Shaw (GnuPG Release Signing Key) >> >> rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] >> Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08

Re: Break backwards compatibility already: it’s time. Ignore the haters. I trust you.

2018-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ust be protected from that 90 volt ringing current. Can you imagine the redesign that would be required so I could start the gasoline engine in my Prius with a hand crank in the front? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registere

Re: Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME

2018-05-19 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ntiago) thunderbird-52.7.0-1.el6_9.x86_64 gnupg2-2.0.14-8.el6.x86_64 Enigmail 2.0.4 -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 09:40:01 up 2 days, 17:30, 2

Re: your message could not,be delivered to one or more recipients.

2017-11-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
126866 IN A 64.12.51.132 dns-02.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 205.188.157.232 dns-07.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 64.236.1.107 dns-06.ns.aol.com. 126866 IN A 207.200.73.80 ;; Query time: 123 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;;

your message could not,be delivered to one or more recipients.

2017-11-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
led Status: 4.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; kerckhoffs.g10code.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 451-204.29.186.9 is not yet authorized to deliver mail from 451 to . Please try later. __ >From where does it get port 451? My SMTP port is 465 204.29.186.9 is my ISP for e-mail: AOL. -- .~. Jea

Re: Counterarguments Supporting GnuPG over Off The Record (OTR)

2017-01-19 Thread Jean-David Beyer
unication, and without paper communication, we will be unable to encrypt anything. Will there be an equivalent to OpenPGP that works with telepathy? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, N

Re: about cartoon in FAQ 10.1. 'Correct, horse! Battery staple!'

2015-12-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ing: At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire In Latin, that is a palindrome. It is now the name of a musical composition, and has a group of its own on Facebook. https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/510001 - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ P

Re: How can it be made even easier!?

2015-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ps can get hampered where there > aren't instructions that cover what to do when one of the steps goes > awry! > Not just doctors. My lawyer has the same problem. She really needs signed e-mails and encrypted e-mails, but has not the time to learn all about how to install an

Re: General brute force attack question

2015-06-16 Thread Jean-David Beyer
where even the super-user could have a difficult time getting at that shadow file. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 21:25:01 up 7

Re: Random Seed for Generating PGP Keys

2015-05-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
eeded a random number generator, I made plots on a crt where one random number was used as the x-coordinate and the next one was used as the y-coordinate of a plotted point. I expected to see a mess of noise, but there were, instead, stripes. Turns out there was a bug in the RNG I was using. --

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
> >> > I removed the @ signs and then that part worked. > Sorry, I copied it from the texinfo source and missed these escape > sequences. No harm done. It did not take long to figure it out. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
rc and it seems to work. Thank you. > > However it is easier to put "use-standard-socket" into > ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf and let gpg start gpg-agent as needed. This is > the same procedure as used by 2.1 and which has always used with 2.0 on > Windows (where use-standar

Re: generating revocation certs non-interactively

2015-05-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
the good guy and the one > who loved me sooo much and did everything w kids and his family but > no no None of that is true especially since he met his sugar mama it > was total ignore the kids day after day as well as the verbal abuse > got worse and worse > It looks something like

Re: multiple instances of gpg-agent

2015-05-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ran `/bin/date +%Y%b%d%R ` $GPG_SOCKET_FILE >> /home/jeandavid8/XprofileLog.txt -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-

Re: Anything that just works easily for folks?... without knowing this stuff.

2015-03-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
BUT NO SIMPLER. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://linuxcounter.net ^^-^^ 09:40:01 up 8 days, 16:48, 2 users, load average: 5.

Re: gpg in a cybercafé

2015-03-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
y easy. I suppose it is a little more difficult at a cyber cafe or public library. But not if I owned the cafe or worked in the library. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyh

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
summer job there. We talked about round-off problems when using fixed-length and fixed-point arithmetic. Oh! Well! Memories. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://co

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
me are famous in their own fields. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:00:01 up 19:21, 2 users, load average: 4.77, 4.67, 4.52 -BEG

Re: Recommended key size for life long key

2013-09-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ption methods, some might manage with symmetric key methods. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:55:01 up 10 days, 23:40, 3

Re: need help for GPG 1.2.1 binary for REHL 5.8

2013-08-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
L5. I run RHEL 6 on my main machine. The 5.9 has gnupg2-2.0.10-3.el5.1.i386 as its current release and that requires the following libraries: libksba-1.0.5-2.el5 pinentry-0.7.3-3.el5 pth-2.0.7-6.el5. As Peter asks, "why do you want to install 1.2.1?" -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
urned "550 Recipient unknown." > > Is the address ab...@teamspeakusa.com actually required? I know "postmas...@teamspeakusa.com" is required and it must go to a real person, but is any other? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Oh! Good! I was afraid it was something I did. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 06:50:01 up 2 days, 22:15, 2 users, l

Re: [#JYM-378-41570]: Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 08/05/2013 09:23 AM, TeamSpeak Piracy wrote: > Jean-David Beyer, > > Thank you for contacting us. This is an automated response confirming > the receipt of your ticket. One of our agents will get back to you as > soon as possible. For your records, the details of the ticket are

Re: Why trust any software?

2013-08-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
that C-code for the first compiler and compile it by hand to binary (not assembly level). Then use that to make the assembler that has been similarly verified, then the C compiler you really want to use, and so on. I am not sufficiently paranoid to do this, and I would not live long enough to do it e

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
my sending an encrypted e-mail to a friend of mine who then forwards it unencrypted to someone else. The developers of GPG cannot do anything to protect against these threats. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/11/2013 12:23 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 6/10/2013 11:37 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> Of course he did not seriously propose the idea as a real course of >> action. But it is interesting to think about. > > I drive a Mustang GT with enough engine work

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/11/2013 12:23 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 6/10/2013 11:37 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> Of course he did not seriously propose the idea as a real course of >> action. But it is interesting to think about. > > I drive a Mustang GT with enough engine work

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/10/2013 03:39 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: > I just wanted to say that you have neatly encapsulated my feelings > on the subject: Stupid is in vogue. > > My concern is that it will be for a long time to come. It is > ironic that technology is, to a considerable extent, what has made > it possibl

Fwd: Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-10 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Sorry, I sent it privately by mistake... Original Message Subject: Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:59:59 -0400 From: Jean-David Beyer Organization: Institute for Regimented Whimsey To: Johan Wevers On 06/10/2013 06:40 AM

Re: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on homedir

2013-06-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 06/04/2013 03:22 PM, ira.kirsch...@sungard.com wrote: > I am running on Red Hat Linux 6.4.6 What release is that? I have support from Red Hat that is up to date as of today, and it claims to be: $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) Nothing about a t

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 05/28/2013 03:28 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 18:17, forlasa...@gmail.com said: > >> crazy and doesn't function correctly, the house is half wood and half >> brick, and/Jack forgot to put locks on the doors./ > > Well, the mailbox at my door has no lock either and it suffers fr

Re: [OT] Why are you using the GPG / PGP keys?

2013-05-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 05/26/2013 06:50 AM, Zece Anonimescu wrote: > Zece Anonimescu: >> Robert J. Hansen: >>> Email is dying and has been for years. Ask a college student today[...] >> >> I don't like the mass media estimates: the next big thing, the yesterday >> thing, the dying thing. I thought for a good ten minu

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-06 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/06/2013 01:10 PM, Ryan Sawhill wrote: > I wouldn't have to work at Red Hat to find your imagining of all this > hilarious. No offense meant. I am not offended; just ignorant of some of the details of this. > > What makes the most sense: that all packages are built on a handful of > central

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 04:27 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > I have no idea how Red Hat does this, but it seems unlikely to me. It's > not connected to the internet, but signs the whole repository, and each > individual security update etcetera. Is there a guy who keeps going back > and forth with a USB stick be

Re: gpg for pseudonymous users [was: Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?]

2013-04-05 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 04/05/2013 11:39 AM, Stan Tobias wrote: > The problem we're trying to solve here is how to ascertain originality > of a software development line, IOW how to authenticate it. What I do is get my OS (a Linux distribution from Red Hat) on a DVD directly from them. It contains, along with everythi

Re: How insecure is using /dev/random for entropy generation?

2013-03-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/30/2013 10:46 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: [snip] > gpg uses /dev/random. That's why key generation usually blocks due > to lack of entropy if you do it right and boot a secure medium for > key generation. > > The kernel fills /dev/random from e.g. k

Re: passing information among several users

2013-01-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 01/21/2013 11:56 AM, Rita wrote: > Hello, > > > Here is what I am trying to do in my environment. > > > I have 6 users: maseruser and user{A,B,C,D,E} > > Masteruser will be generating data and I would like userA and userC be > able to decypt the data and others not to. However, in the futur

Re: how vulnerable is "hidden-encrypt-to"

2012-08-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
y in English emails. I have added a non-ASCII char to my text > signature thus forcing a charset different from ascii. Thus the signature of > this email should be OK. Hey! OpenPGP Security Info UNTRUSTED Good signature from Hauke Laging Key ID: 0x3A403251 / Signed on: 08/17/2012 10:24 PM Key

Re: ideal.dll

2012-06-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
aving a discussion > about PGP 2.6, which is deeply married to MD5. > > > > After reviewing the past 19 years of results on MD5 and the community's > reaction to them, all I can say is ... nothing, really. I used to be > able to get a lot of outrage summoned up over t

Re: Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

2012-05-30 Thread Jean-David Beyer
identify the FBI informants. The informants were the only ones who paid their dues. Real communists could not afford it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.

Re: There may be more to security than password length, or even its complexity.

2012-05-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ord to my computer out on a couple of web sites that told my how hard it would be to crack it. One of them said more than 10 million years. I guess that one is good enough, though my current ones have two more characters. Maybe I should shorten them. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered L

There may be more to security than password length, or even its complexity.

2012-05-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-v15Nbl_zG7s/T6BFiQoGDEI/AHs/U5eU7O6MG3o/s1600/security-fail.jpg -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:40:01

Re: PGP/MIME use (was Re: META)

2012-01-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
o by signing your posts. > OK. I stand behind this post. But other than amusing myself, does it really make any difference? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp:/

Re: PGP/MIME use (was Re: META)

2012-01-31 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ill be disappeared. The time for that has not yet come. I hope it is postponed until after I can no longer use a computer. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
; > To be more pointed, how many folks on this list carry a cell phone? > > --dan > I carry one about half the time, but it is usually powered off unless I am expecting a call, or when I need to make one. Also about once every other month to use the GPS navigation feature. -- .~

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
fore Service: it is the American way. 8-( -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 10:05:01 up 19:11, 4 users, load av

Re: The problem is "motivational"

2011-10-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
think it's possible > I may be mistaken, and for that reason I'm not going to attempt to > persuade smart people to stop attempting the absurd. > > By all means, you should direct your energies to where you feel they can > do the most good -- but we should also respect th

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 10/11/2011 05:14 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> Let us assume you are the bad guy > > Okay. > >> Unless you have my encrypted keys, you have to access my computer >> (unless you have al

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
kinds of > computations so much easier. > > Anyway, figured I'd throw it out on the off chance there were others who > hadn't noticed it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\

Re: Why revoke a key?

2011-10-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
to bother with passphrases less than 32 characters or longer than 32 characters. This reduces the size of the search space I must examine. Of coarse, the shorter ones can be tested faster than the longer ones. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9

Re: An Invitation to Neuroscientists and Physicists: Singapore Citizen Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Reports First Hand Account of Mind Intrusion and Mind Reading

2011-05-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
t encryption, such as by using gpg, will not be a defense from "attacks" of this kind. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:50:01 u

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
lds on to it until the date. As treasurer of a tax deductible organization, I use the date on the check as the date of the donation except sometimes I do not. I do not when it is dated something late in December, but postmarked mid January or later. In that case, I use the postmark date. So people

Re: OFF LIST - Your signed posts.

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
8ACgkQS/NNXDZDAccnJAD/Qeck95CG/1feZrnEILzWIMRt kbHn0zSl6mP5lyxW1ZoBAI8/ptcE0jXNH7lRCpnAmLoBXhKj4K0PnNdmBmbYpFqg =TcLe -END PGP SIGNATURE- - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury,

Re: Keylogers

2011-04-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ral years. There is SELINUX on my machine, but I have never enabled it. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 09:20:01 up 1

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Thursday 21 April 2011 at 2:20:51 PM, in > , Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > >> I do not think it is entirely not wanting to be >> educated. But if the education takes several hours a >>

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-04-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ome allow only letters and digits, and so on. Who can keep up?), then management would have to budget the time so I could do it, and they will not. There has to be a better way, and I do not know what it is. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A

Re: Deniability [SIC]

2011-04-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
not even know what they are voting for or against. Then there are state and municipal laws and regulations. While ignorance may be no excuse, there is now way to be informed either. The turkeys that pass the laws do not even know that, and there is no way we could keep up even if we tried. -- .~.

Re: "This key may be unsafe"

2011-03-07 Thread Jean-David Beyer
hey are only up to gnupg-1.4.5-14.el5_5.1, They will probably not move up until RHEL 6 (that I believe has just recently come out). It looks as though that one is: gnupg2-2.0.14-4.el6.i686 (for my 32-bit machines); unless I am confused. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered

Re: PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

2011-02-27 Thread Jean-David Beyer
virus, by the time they saw that it would be too late, would it not? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 18:50:01 up 40 days, 3:25, 3 users, load ave

Re: how slow are 4Kbit RSA keys? [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-27 Thread Jean-David Beyer
time compared with doing an entire message (depends on its length, of course). So unless the time to encrypt or decrypt the session key is large compared with the time to encrypt or decrypt the actual message, is this discussion not about the wrong thing? What is the message size of the messages being

Where is FAQ?

2010-07-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
correct order, but a while ago there was a thread about this and I would like to find it. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:10:01 up 16 days, 1

Re: decryption failed: secret key not available

2010-07-21 Thread Jean-David Beyer
to a key-server. Then notify whoever sent you the original message of the problem and to send it again with the new key. You might wish to revoke the old key-pair if you have a revocation certificate on your machine. I do not know how you lost your secret key. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer R

Re: Locating GnuPG 2.0.16 RH4 binaries...

2010-07-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Breen Mullins wrote: > * Jean-David Beyer [2010-07-20 14:53 -0400]: > >> John Espiro wrote: >>> Greetings... >>> My google skills must not be working lately... Can anyone help point me >>> to the 2.0.16 b

Re: Locating GnuPG 2.0.16 RH4 binaries...

2010-07-20 Thread Jean-David Beyer
4.5-14.el5_5.1. If I look at CentOS 4, the binary for it is gnupg-1.2.6-9.i386.rpm -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:45:01 up 12 days, 23:31,

Re: AUTO: Richard Hamilton is out of the office (returning 06/24/2010)

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
David Smith wrote: > Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> If I understand correctly, this is done by setting the precedence of the >> vacation e-mail to "bulk" instead of something else ("list"?), and that >> mailing list programs do not send the stuff marked

Re: AUTO: Richard Hamilton is out of the office (returning 06/24/2010)

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ulk. Is that not how mailing list programs work? -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 08:20:01 up 42 days, 16:15, 3 users, load average: 4.65,

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 13 June 2010, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >> Ingo Klöcker wrote: >>> On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote: >>>> Conversely, many MUAs support the "reply to list" function that >>>> should work correctly on this list.

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Saturday 12 June 2010, Jerry wrote: >> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:40:28 -0400 >> >> Jean-David Beyer articulated: >>> I see no way to do that. I have a Reply button and a Reply All >>> button and no others. There is no such button

Re: Test mail to gnupg.user

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
diddling buttons. Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, which is the latest for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:35:01 up 37 day

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
uot; feature in several MTAs. Yes, I did. They will not accept anything from my MTA even when I use the smarthost feature. I can use either their web site server (that I detest) or Firefox, but they will not allow sendmail even with smarthost. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered L

Re: Keyserver spam example

2010-06-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
block them. A large percentage of spam originates from the USA. It would be just as rational to block mail from all IP addresses that are listed as being there. (-; Maybe France is blocking all of USA, or all of Verizon. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /

Re: Test mail to gnupg.u...@seibercom.net

2010-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
t one from the list, and it is usually too much trouble to send another reply to the list. I wish all lists were set up so a reply to a message from the list went back to the list, but there is no point asking that from a list that does things another way. -- .~. Jean-David

Re: Using the OTR plugin with Pidgin for verifying GPG public key fingerprints

2010-03-13 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ons of normalcy from watching news reports. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 12:05:01 up 52 days, 13:25, 4 users, load average: 4.36, 4.36, 4

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

2010-01-12 Thread Jean-David Beyer
oil or the oil pressure light. Well one of those will go about 25,000 miles before seizing up. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ~ ^^-^^ 10:05

Re: 8192bit RSA keys

2009-07-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
| you make a RSA key larger than 2048 bits you can't use it with the | spiffy new OpenPGP smartcard. | Another reason is that even if increasing my key size to would increase my security in some sense, I do not want my GPG security to be so strong that the black hats would bypass it and torture

Re: New Revocation Certificate...

2009-06-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: | On 06/28/2009 04:44 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote: |> If I add a subkey to my key (e.g., because the previous one expired), do I |> have to generate a new revocation certificate, or is the old one still |> good

New Revocation Certificate...

2009-06-28 Thread Jean-David Beyer
. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ~ ^^-^^ 16:40:01 up 10 days, 3:29, 4 users, load average: 4.07, 4.11, 4.18 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Email signature

2009-06-11 Thread Jean-David Beyer
Of course I can create something myself, but is there some standard? | I have no idea. I suppose people would not know what your logo meant anyway. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New

Re: Security Concern: Unsigned Windows Executable

2009-06-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
very problem Rene Descartes was stuck in until he came up with "Cogito, ergo sum." Which I do not think was a solution at all. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. ~ /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. ~ /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jers

Re: Someone has harvested my address

2008-09-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
ng correctly. A processor test assumes the memory is working correctly, and so on. It seems to be a chicken and egg problem both for software and hardware. The original problem is easy: a chicken is an egg's way of reproducing itself. - -- ~ .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux Us

Re: Securely delete files...

2008-08-22 Thread Jean-David Beyer
eeds to overwrite > both 100 and 12345 to get all traces of the file. > To make matters worse, block 100 in your example may have already been allocated to another process and it may have already written by that other process, so the computer better not overwrite it multiple times to

Re: [GnuPG-users] identical files -> non-identical encrypted files

2008-08-03 Thread Jean-David Beyer
314 A 023 323 363 160 = 361 9 V U ' c 7 s 247 372 9 306 202 342 203 200 l K Y 323 Y z 372 ~ \r \v 270 o J } 272 1 - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241

Re: Starting with gnupg

2008-08-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Moore III wrote: > Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > >> But if he somehow got your private key, I do not believe he >> would need your passphrase. > > YES! S/He _would_ need the passphrase even if in possession of the

Re: Starting with gnupg

2008-08-02 Thread Jean-David Beyer
e needs more than your public key. He needs your private key as well -- and the easiest way to get that is to get a copy of your secret keyring and your passphrase. But if he somehow got your private key, I do not believe he would need your passphrase. I hope you have _not_ sent your secret keyri

Re: so how do you get others to sign your key?

2008-07-24 Thread Jean-David Beyer
this can of worms? One of Murphy's laws goes: When you open a can of worms, to recan them takes a larger size can. > > Sorry, I had to say this. I'm usually not the flamy type of a person. > Alex. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ P

Re: what if they have my sec key?

2008-05-29 Thread Jean-David Beyer
gt; Having the secret key on my USB drive? > ? > That is safe as long as the other users of your machine are not running programs on it while you are using it. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\

Re: How true can this be?

2008-02-09 Thread Jean-David Beyer
option was death. But I imagine it would be done officially. > > The approach you mention would be probably used on someone who would like to > play the game (as in sell the info to another country), not for some random > blabberer. > > Alex - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer

Re: Which key is used when more than one are valid?

2007-06-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Moore III wrote: > David Shaw wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:49:21PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: >>>> My gnupg file that I get with edit-keys myuid >>>> contains, among other things: >>>&g

Which key is used when more than one are valid?

2007-06-17 Thread Jean-David Beyer
? Or is this a Thunderbird question? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 14:45:01 up 5 days, 19:45, 5 users, load average: 4.13, 4.21, 4.30

Re: Donations

2007-01-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
h reminds me I forgot to send my contribution to FSF last year. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 08:40:01 up 79 days, 11:13, 3 users, load av

Re: Problem with revoking my old key

2006-01-26 Thread Jean-David Beyer
unexpected packet type and/or order of packets > > Am I doing something wrong or why is my key not being accepted by the > keyservers? > > > //Daniel > > I get the same message when I try to import your key. So if it is not you, it is both Thunderbird 1.5 and the keyse

Trouble with enigmail and Thunderbird 1.5

2006-01-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
should I find a Thunderbird newsgroup to ask? And if so, which one? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 12:55:00 up 3 days, 4:21, 5 users, load

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 markus reichelt wrote: > * Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> markus reichelt wrote (in part): >> >> >>> Mainly, because I think that the guys with the small ... glasses ;-) >>&

Re: ECC

2005-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
en all manufacturers to include trogan horses in their code? - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 11:45:00 up 26 days, 11:08, 4 users, load average

To: Alaric Dailey

2005-10-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
be good for about another year. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jerseyhttp://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 17:00:00 up 8 days, 10:02, 5 users, load average: 4.31, 4.27, 4.27

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
pping, snooping, interception of their e-mail, but they absolutely refuse to do anything about it. I know no one personally that uses encrypted e-mail. Surely, no one with that attitude would encrypt the stuff on their computer hard drives, backup tapes, etc. It is like the weather. Many people talk

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