Re: Any future for the Crypto Stick?

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 04:20:42AM -0800, Paul R. Ramer wrote: > Peter Lebbing wrote: > >On 02/12/13 20:37, Andreas Schwier (ML) wrote: > >> Wait a second - you can not simply hide a backdoor in a Common > >Criteria > >> evaluated operating system. There are too many entities that would > >need >

Re: Setting encryption algorithm for specific key

2013-11-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 04:06:14PM -0500, Bill Albert wrote: > On 11/21/2013 01:01 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > > Please don't reply to a message off the list and change the subject > > line because it causes your new topic to show under the previous one > > for those using mail readers that thread pro

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 02:59:17PM +0200, Manu García wrote: snip > > I always thought that GnuPG was rather secure, but it seems that among > experts it's a well known weak and poor ciphering technology which no > security experts consider seriously. At least that's th

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

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:18:57PM +, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > to use email no longer use it. Unless a way to get rid of the > spam can be devised only a few stalwarts that MUST use email > will use it. But I dumped Gnome 3 entirely after looking at > OpenSuSE 12.3 with Gnome as the last s

Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions

2012-05-25 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 09:24:32AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: ...snip.. > > At this point you look skywards and scream, "GET ME OUT OF THIS > METAPHOR! I get it already! A nonconstructive proof doesn't tell us > anything about /what/ or /why/ or /how/, it just says that some

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-18 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 05:50:42PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: .snip.. > > At any rate, I would love to see more client-to-client encryption in email. > I've always wondered if there could be an "OTR" approach to mail, somehow, > so people don't need to generate and manag

Re: Where are those stubs..

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:01:23PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > You just alienated the entire FOSS community. > > Please don't claim to speak for the entire FOSS community. You don't. No > one does: not even RMS, Linus or Jordan Hubbard. I don't presume to. It was a deliberate exaggerati

Re: Where are those stubs..

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:56:54AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:43:06 +0100 > da...@gbenet.com articulated: ..snip > > > Most people have Microsoft on their desktop or laptop without any > > choice. They do not have the freedom of choice. Most people like

Re: Where are those stubs..

2011-07-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:42:33PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > Still with the HTML? This excerpt is from the Fedora mail list but it > > applies to all lists: > > It applies to those lists which have a policy on HTML mail identical to that > of the Fedora mailing list. This is not the sam

Re: Where are those stubs..

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:20:21AM +0200, J. Ottosson wrote: >"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> > http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > .snip. > > >    > > Still with the HTML? This excerpt is from the Fedor

Re: Passphrase

2011-04-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 06:38:11PM -0400, Stephen H. Dawson wrote: > Hi, > > > Dire need, hoping for help. > > I have my private and public keys, but you have neither the passphrase nor a > revocation certificate. I need to revoke my published key. Can they > recommend > a bash script to d

Re: New version of pine-pgp-filters

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Doug Barton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/14/10 17:49, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Doug Barton wrote: I wanted to send a quick note for those who are using, or may be interested in using my scripts to integrate GnuPG with

Re: New version of pine-pgp-filters

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Doug Barton wrote: I wanted to send a quick note for those who are using, or may be interested in using my scripts to integrate GnuPG with Alpine. I've released version 1.7 which has the following two small updates: Your INSTALL file says: "The configure script will look

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:21:51AM -0600, Mario Castel�n Castro wrote: > > Did you count the citys in the list, they are just 11 of thoustands > and thoustands around the world; it helps of course, but very little. You obviously didn't try to use the search box to find more cities. -- Bob Holtz

Re: .gnupg/gpg.conf permissions

2009-04-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, David Shaw wrote: On Apr 6, 2009, at 6:25 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: Just tried to d/l a key and was greeted with [hol...@localhost]~$ sudo gpg --recv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu A373FB480EC4FE05 [sudo] password for holtzm: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration

.gnupg/gpg.conf permissions

2009-04-06 Thread Robert Holtzman
Just tried to d/l a key and was greeted with [hol...@localhost]~$ sudo gpg --recv --keyserver pgp.mit.edu A373FB480EC4FE05 [sudo] password for holtzm: gpg: WARNING: unsafe ownership on configuration file `/home/holtzm/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe opti

Re: Changing preferences

2008-09-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Robert J. Hansen wrote: David Shaw wrote: If they are so horrible, suggest a different way to handle them. Better to fix it in code rather than document something you feel is confusing. Remove the option. .snip. 44 instances of t