Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-16 Thread Mark H. Wood
I'm going to stick my non-expert neck out, because this seems to need more than a brief answer. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:38:47AM -0800, AgoristTeen1994 wrote: > > Okay thanks for the help though I'm still somewhat confused...I understand > that they key id is the entire keypair, but then how do

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-16 Thread Lists . gnupg-users
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:38:47AM -0800 Also sprach AgoristTeen1994: > > Okay thanks for the help though I'm still somewhat confused...I understand > that they key id is the entire keypair, but then how do I found out what is > just my public key, and just my secret key, the reason I"m asking is

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-16 Thread AgoristTeen1994
Okay thanks for the help. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-OpenPGP-plugin-in-Mozilla-Thunderbird-and-Claws-Mail-tp30913160p30933366.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users

Re: on possible ambiguity in Key IDs [was: Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail]

2011-02-15 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/15/2011 09:22 PM, lists.gn...@mephisto.fastmail.net wrote: >> If you have your public key published somewhere, such as on a key >> server, the Key ID is a way for other people to unambiguously look up >> the full key. > > You're qui

Re: on possible ambiguity in Key IDs [was: Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail]

2011-02-15 Thread David Shaw
On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:44 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 2/15/11 11:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Long-form keyIDs (of the form 0xDECAFBADDEADBEEF) are significantly >> harder to spoof, but easily within reach of a well-funded organization. > > IIRC, Jon Callas says an accidental long-ID

Re: on possible ambiguity in Key IDs [was: Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail]

2011-02-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 2/15/11 11:35 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Long-form keyIDs (of the form 0xDECAFBADDEADBEEF) are significantly > harder to spoof, but easily within reach of a well-funded organization. IIRC, Jon Callas says an accidental long-ID collision has occurred. I don't recall the details. Still, t

on possible ambiguity in Key IDs [was: Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail]

2011-02-15 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/15/2011 09:22 PM, lists.gn...@mephisto.fastmail.net wrote: > If you have your public key published somewhere, such as on a key > server, the Key ID is a way for other people to unambiguously look up > the full key. You're quite correct that the key ID provides a handle that references the ac

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-15 Thread Lists . gnupg
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:38:47AM -0800 Also sprach AgoristTeen1994: > > Okay thanks for the help though I'm still somewhat confused...I understand > that they key id is the entire keypair, but then how do I found out what is > just my public key, and just my secret key, the reason I"m asking is

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-15 Thread Grant Olson
On 2/15/11 8:38 AM, AgoristTeen1994 wrote: > > Okay thanks for the help though I'm still somewhat confused...I understand > that they key id is the entire keypair, but then how do I found out what is > just my public key, and just my secret key, the reason I"m asking is that if > I want to give m

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-15 Thread AgoristTeen1994
y give the entire keyid since that has my secret key too..or am I wrong on that and I can give them the entire keyid? Thanks again and have a nice day. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-OpenPGP-plugin-in-Mozilla-Thunderbird-and-Claws-Mail-tp30913160p30930916.html Sen

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-14 Thread James Hofmann
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:46:02PM -0500, Grant Olson wrote: > On 02/13/2011 03:03 AM, AgoristTeen1994 wrote: > > > > Hey, this is going to seem like stupid questions, but, I just found out > > about > > PGP, OpenPGP, and GnuPG yesterday, and I didn't create a key pair until > > about 2 hours ago

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-13 Thread Grant Olson
On 02/13/2011 03:03 AM, AgoristTeen1994 wrote: > > Hey, this is going to seem like stupid questions, but, I just found out about > PGP, OpenPGP, and GnuPG yesterday, and I didn't create a key pair until > about 2 hours ago, so I'm pretty unaware of how some thing work...First is, > that using eith

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-13 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/13/2011 03:03 AM, AgoristTeen1994 wrote: > > Hey, this is going to seem like stupid questions, but, I just found out about > PGP, OpenPGP, and GnuPG yesterday, and I didn't create a key pair until > about 2 hours ago, so I'm pretty unaware of how some thing work...First is, > that using eith

Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-13 Thread AgoristTeen1994
rcept? Thank you for any help, and have a nice day. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-OpenPGP-plugin-in-Mozilla-Thunderbird-and-Claws-Mail-tp30913160p30913160.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.