Re: My Conclusions

2014-11-16 Thread Larry Brower
I have never had any issues moving keys between boxes. In fact I moved my keys just last week to a box at work. What exactly is the nature of the problem? On Friday, November 14, 2014, da...@gbenet.com wrote: > Hi All, > > After spending 62 hours on what I thought would be a simple task namely

Re: Recommended key size for life long key

2013-09-01 Thread Larry Brower
astically lessen the chances of a key being compromised or of a possible compromise having as much effect on you. There is a reason things like IPSEC keys are renegotiated after so many minutes or after so many bytes are transmitted. :) -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North Amer

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-08-25 Thread Larry Brower
people. A custom BSD distro targeted at non-technical people would be useful here. Perhaps one which took Security and Privacy into account as design goal. Staying away from flash would be easier if all these people who think they are web developers would stop using it. -- Larry Brower, CCN

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-08-25 Thread Larry Brower
hat gets plugged in the instant it is plugged in. -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance lbro...@fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/ 0x0806CF8B.asc Description: application/pgp-keys ___ Gnupg-users

Re: No secret key on 1 file

2013-08-16 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/16/2013 07:56 AM, Steven Bonda wrote: > --batch --passphrase Have you tried to do this without --batch and --passphrase? Is there any change? - -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance l

Re: [#INN-651-31269]: Re: key management & APG

2013-08-04 Thread Larry Brower
>*Department: *Piracy [English] >*Type: *Issue >*Status: *Open > What is with the helpdesk being a list member? - -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance lbro...@fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/ -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: License violation: GoldBug

2013-07-27 Thread Larry Brower
ist Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > - -- Larry Brower, CCNA Fedora Ambassador - North America Fedora Quality Assurance lbro...@fedoraproject.org http://www.fedoraproject.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: searching for keys

2013-07-13 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:56 PM, kardan wrote: Hi, When I search for a key via browser on [1] I get an unencrypted answer from [2]. This happens for some keys that are onlyavailable on some servers. The problem is that the info, whose key I am se

Re: GPG keys listed are not correct.

2011-05-17 Thread Larry Brower
On 05/17/2011 06:56 PM, Lucélio Gomes de Freitas wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dear GnuPG staff, > > I have Virtualbox-4.0.6 installed ok on my Linux machine, but on > updating to the newest one . . . . > I got the following messages using(KDE) kpackage kit: >

Re: Signing a key (meaning)

2011-04-11 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 04/11/2011 06:09 PM, MFPA wrote: > That's all fair enough, but I still think the standard MITM attack is > an example of "some hypothetical exploit by some hypothetical attacker > compromises your communications." > MITM is not hypothetical and

Re: 4096 bit keys

2011-03-22 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/22/2011 06:32 PM, Jonathan Ely wrote: > What is ECC? Now I want that haha. Elliptic curve cryptography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_curve_cryptography -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: Default GPG Encryption Algorithm (symmetric cipher) is?

2011-01-02 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/02/2011 12:14 AM, frankexcha...@nospammail.net wrote: > As mentioned I am a Linux newbie (command line adverse) and like many > users of Ubuntu they would not know how access details of what the > default symmetric cipher is. > > Use of the te

Re: Confirmation for cached passphrases useful?

2010-10-11 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hauke Laging wrote: > Hello, > > I just had the idea that it might be a good countermeasure against malicious > software not to use a cached passphrase without any user interaction (and > thus > without user notice). A good compromise would be to o

Re: Encrypt Error - There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user

2010-10-05 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Chitwood wrote: > Yes, that is our key. > Have you verified it is trusted on the system you are trying to use it on? Perhaps the key isn't trusted. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Moz

Re: Encrypt Error - There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user

2010-10-05 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Chitwood wrote: > Here you go. > > $ gpg --list-sigs F56DBCBE > pub 2048R/F56DBCBE 2010-09-28 > uid Patrick Ashbrook > sig N F56DBCBE 2010-09-28 Patrick Ashbrook > sig 359B3EB2 2010-10-05 it.security@b

Re: Encrypt Error - There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user

2010-10-05 Thread Larry Brower
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Chitwood wrote: > Robert, > > This is a error that is preventing us from encrypting. The key has been > trusted and signed. > > > pub 2048R/F56DBCBE created: 2010-09-28 expires: never usage: SC > trust: full

Re: Secret key without public key

2010-03-29 Thread Larry Brower
CONNIE RODRIGUEZ wrote: Great!! Thank you for your help. I will post on how it went. Welcome ;) Just let us know if you have any questions on anything. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gn

Re: Secret key without public key

2010-03-29 Thread Larry Brower
CONNIE RODRIGUEZ wrote: Sorry forgot to mention this is in unix. Also, I do not have a backup to re-import. I figured is was Unix. Without a backup you wont be able to decrypt the file. Are you certain there is no backup? No backup of the system which could have the .gnupg directory? Ta

Re: Secret key without public key

2010-03-29 Thread Larry Brower
CONNIE RODRIGUEZ wrote: This is a development box..no backup. Can I copy from the another environment? yes if you have the key on another server such as a production box. gpg --export-secret-key -a > a-filename-here copy it to the dev box with something like scp then on the dev box gpg -

Re: Secret key without public key

2010-03-29 Thread Larry Brower
CONNIE RODRIGUEZ wrote: Help!! Just last week I was able to decrypt files for our Vendor. I tried this morning and now I get the message below. The only changes that occurred was that another vendor key was added last week. The ELG-E Key is the same the message was encrypted with. Any insi