> "MHW" == Mark H Wood writes:
MHW> And life is too short to go trawling the Internet for X Compose
MHW> sequences. If I could find a comprehensive table I'd probably use
MHW> them more.
Try:
:; grep QUOT /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose
to get something like:
: "›" U
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
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
On 5/24/12 7:56 PM, reynt0 wrote:
. . .
The idea is just to maximize usability to maximum audience,
. . .
"Maximum audience" is not the same as "maximum usability." The two are
different properties. When it comes to the written word, ease of
r
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:31, mw...@iupui.edu said:
> And life is too short to go trawling the Internet for X Compose
> sequences. If I could find a comprehensive table I'd probably use
Meanwhile I set my keyboard to:
| mod3+ | normal | shift |
|---++|
| P | „ |
>> There's a slight confusion in these answers that I think it would be
>> really helpful to address in an FAQ.
>
> Yes, there is. Unfortunately, the answer is kind of messy.
[ snip ]
Thank you for a really good and useful answer. I hope some of that
can make it into the FAQ.
If I understand y
Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on
Fri May 25 15:24:32 CEST 2012 :
> In reality, Dan Boneh is a very nice guy, quite reasonable, and
nothing at all like I'm portraying him here.
He gives a free online crypto course at Stanford
https://www.coursera.org/#course/crypto
The cour
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:44:40AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:22, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
>
> > The final version that gets submitted to Werner will by necessity be
> > plain text, and that will probably get downshifted into dumb typewriter
>
> Keep those quotes. I lik
On 5/25/12 8:35 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> Dan Boneh showed breaking RSA without factoring anything was
> probably possible, but it was a nonconstructive demonstration -- we have
> no idea where to begin.
Just realized the phrase "nonconstructive" may need to be explained.
The best way to do it
On 5/25/12 6:41 AM, Nicholas Cole wrote:
> ***In terms of current scientific understandings, the symmetric
> ciphers used in GnuPG are utterly***
> The symmetric ciphers used in GnuPG are utterly immune to
> brute forcing. The Second Law of Thermodynamics places strict
I'm comfortable with things
> ---re #5: Is RSA-2048 really enough?
>
> ***start 2nd sentence : And other organizations to whom encryption
> is important (such as RSA...*** [The world changes, and maybe
> an explicit endorsement might not be so appropriate tomorrow,
> but embarassing or similar to change then. Just mentioni
On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:22, r...@sixdemonbag.org said:
> The final version that gets submitted to Werner will by necessity be
> plain text, and that will probably get downshifted into dumb typewriter
Keep those quotes. I like UTF-8 and it is always easier to replace them
by ticks and backticks th
On 5/24/12 7:56 PM, reynt0 wrote:
> I was just guessing what they might be. They showed as
> "garbage" character groups in some browser rendering.
They may render as 'no such glyph', depending on which font you use.
I'd suggest using a better font. :)
Also, if your browser is set to render ever
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
On 5/23/12 6:50 PM, reynt0 wrote:
Also, just to mention, best to avoid smart apostrophes/quotes
in the final version, naturally, right?
Not a whelk’s chance in a supernova. Those aren’t smart quotes, they’re
perfectly valid UTF-8 typographic marks
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Have a look at the last line of each mail:
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--- On Thu, 5/24/12, Werner Koch wrote:
From: Werner Koch
Subject: Re: Draft of nine new FAQ questions
To: "Hauke Laging"
Cc: gnupg-users@gnupg.org
Date: Thursday, May
On Thu, 24 May 2012 01:03, mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de said:
> That sounds like there has never been a security problem. El-Gamal
> signatures,
> anyone?
Right, there was a bug in the Elgamal signature code. However this was
a regression long after we changed the default to DSA with version
On Wed, 23 May 2012 23:40, ds...@jabberwocky.com said:
> Excellent. One note on the new text - it states that 2048-bit DSA
> keys use a 224-bit hash. In fact, a 2048-bit DSA key can use either
> 224 or 256-bit hashes. GnuPG uses 256 here (but will of course accept
For the records: Before 2.0.1
On 5/23/12 6:50 PM, reynt0 wrote:
> Also, just to mention, best to avoid smart apostrophes/quotes
> in the final version, naturally, right?
Not a whelk’s chance in a supernova. Those aren’t smart quotes, they’re
perfectly valid UTF-8 typographic marks.
"Straight quotes" and 'straight apostrophe
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
. . .
I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
community review:
http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
Any and all feedback (save for visual design, layout, etc.) will be
gratefully accepted. Thank you!
Here FWIW
Am Mi 23.05.2012, 12:18:49 schrieb Robert J. Hansen:
> I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
> community review:
>
> http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
The reason I suggested a FAQ addition is not covered :-) At least not by the
headlines. There should be a
On May 23, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I don't want to seem argumentative (especially because I haven't looked
> at the RFC lately), but I was under the impression the RFC was mostly
> silent on the subject of algorithms and key sizes -- DSA being a MUST
> algorithm, but little gui
On 5/23/12 4:12 PM, David Shaw wrote:
> #1 explains why we default to 2048-bit keys, but not why RSA.
Fixed, thank you.
> The answer you have for #4 is not exactly wrong, but it is not
> complete. GnuPG doesn't support 4096-bit keys just because PGP (the
> product) does. It also supports a rang
On May 23, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
> community review:
>
> http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
>
> Note that this draft is in nicely-typeset XHTML5. This is to make it
> easier to proofread. The fin
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On 23/05/12 17:34, michael crane wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 5:18 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
>> community review:
>>
>> http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
>
> for me t
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 05:34:16PM +0100 Also sprach michael crane:
>
> for me the first should always be "what is gnupg ?"
>
I believe these nine "new" FAQ entries are to be added to the existing
entries to provide additional information regarding keysizes
specifically. They are not comprehens
On Wed, May 23, 2012 5:18 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
> community review:
>
> http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
for me the first should always be "what is gnupg ?"
regards
mick
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I have a draft version of nine frequently asked questions ready for
community review:
http://keyservers.org/gnupgfaq.xhtml
Note that this draft is in nicely-typeset XHTML5. This is to make it
easier to proofread. The final version that I'm going to submit to
Werner will be in plain text
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