some beginner questions

2017-04-01 Thread Will Senn
sec# rsa4096 2017-03-11 [SC] EA940B8B4625EC287C3BF93FFE9E46E0FBAAB459 uid [ultimate] Will Senn ssb rsa4096 2017-03-30 [E] ssb rsa2048 2017-03-30 [S] [expires: 2019-03-30] ssb rsa2048 2017-03-30 [E] [expires: 2019-03-30] The second ssb is a signing key [S], so what's up with that, or in other

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-01 Thread Will Senn
On 4/1/17 11:22 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Hello Will, I'll answer 1. 2. and 4. (3. is beyond my knowledge): > > On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 09:10:55AM -0500, Will Senn wrote: >> 1. It seems that the keyservers never forget. In creating keypairs while >> trying to figur

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-01 Thread Will Senn
Robert, On 4/1/17 3:08 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Do I just move on and try not to do that in the future, or is there any >> hope for cleaning up? > Move on. It's okay, everybody makes this mistake in the beginning. :) I thought this might be the case. On the one hand, bummer, on the other,

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-02 Thread Will Senn
ses, but unless we know why you want to use it, it's nearly > impossible to give you good advice. > > More below. > > On 04/01/2017 07:10 AM, Will Senn wrote: > >> 3. I've read >> https://superuser.com/questions/466396/how-to-manage-gpg-keys-across-multiple-system

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-02 Thread Will Senn
On 4/2/17 2:00 PM, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > At Sun, 2 Apr 2017 11:20:16 -0700, > Doug Barton wrote: >> On 04/01/2017 07:10 AM, Will Senn wrote: >>> 3. I've read >>> https://superuser.com/questions/466396/how-to-manage-gpg-keys-across-multiple-systems >&g

Re: some beginner questions

2017-04-03 Thread Will Senn
On 4/3/17 1:25 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > > > but > > I'm not having much luck signing with subkeys, so I'm not convinced this > > is worth the headache and increased complexity of key management. > > It's not really that hard to do, what kind of problems are you having? > The instructions at https:

Smart card

2017-04-03 Thread Will Senn
In my PGP research, I have been looking for a smart card that supports openpgp. I found the OpenPGP Card Version 2.1 over at kernelconcepts, but I'm wondering if they are still operational. I also saw something called a Yubi Key on Amazon. I found this howto that is pretty dated: https://www.gnupg.

Re: Smart card

2017-04-03 Thread Will Senn
On 4/3/17 8:37 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Are smartcards out of vogue? If not, can you suggest resources that will >> help a newb make decisions regarding them? > Smartcards are not out of vogue for people who need them. Those who > don't will be better served by avoiding them. Do you have a

Re: Smart card

2017-04-03 Thread Will Senn
On 4/3/17 9:27 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> What do you mean by "will be better served by avoiding them"? What's the >> reservation? > Imagine we're in a restaurant and you ask me, "Should I order the > pizza?" Well, beats heck out of me. I don't know you from Adam, I > don't know your persona

Re: Smart card

2017-04-03 Thread Will Senn
On 4/3/17 11:48 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 04/03/2017 08:33 PM, Will Senn wrote: >> I didn't ask if I should get one. I asked if there were resources to >> help a newb make decisions regarding them. While I sense a certain >> disdain in your response, I'll make

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Will Senn
Hi Jan, On 4/4/17 1:46 AM, Jan Koppe wrote: > Hello Will, > > somewhat off-topic, but.. > > On 04.04.2017 01:18, Will Senn wrote: > >> If this has been addressed recently, my apologies, I couldn't find a >> search interface for gnupg-users... > You can use a

Re: Smart card

2017-04-04 Thread Will Senn
On 4/4/17 5:22 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 10:27 PM, Robert J. Hansen > wrote: >>> What do you mean by "will be better served by avoiding them"? What's the >>> reservation? >> Imagine we're in a restaurant and you ask me, "Should I order the >> pizza?" Well, beats heck

Re: Smart card

2017-04-09 Thread Will Senn
On 4/9/17 3:16 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I know of PGP-based WoT used in security-aware networks of sysadmins, >> CERTs etc. I would have guessed that a significant part of the >> audience of this list are professional/experienced/involved admins or >> developers. But let me know why the majo

gpg card options

2017-04-23 Thread Will Senn
Is it advisable to set options on a smart card such as Name of cardholder, Sex, URL of public key, and Language prefs? It just seems like information like that is extraneous. Thoughts? Thanks, Will ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org htt