Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:49, ved...@nym.hush.com said: PGP 2.x can be used as a uuencode, and automatically split a signed and encrypted armored file into 100 smaller files ready to be emailed and reconstitued by the receiver. OpenPGP also defines such an armor option but it is not implemented

Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 24 July 2015 at 4:49:54 PM, in mid:20150724154954.3fc5041...@smtp.hushmail.com, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: [2] Large File Transfers PGP 2.x can be used as a uuencode, and automatically split a signed and encrypted armored file

Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:13, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: 1. PGP 2.6 is *small*. The original PGP specification (RFC1991) is a small fraction of the size of the modern OpenPGP specification (RFC4880). When it comes to trustworthy code, small is beautiful. FWIW, RFC-1991 is not a complete

Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-24 Thread vedaal
On 7/23/2015 at 2:58 PM, A.T. Leibson jupell...@riseup.net wrote: Do people (other than John Young) still use PGP? Why would someone want to do that? = The only possible reasons I can think of are: [1] Remailer use, Original remailers used PGP 2.x and even though some use GnuPG,

Re: Archaic PGP usage

2015-07-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I know this list doesn't deal with PGP, but since no else does either any more, it seems like the best place to start. Old versions of PGP were at least FOSS-friendly, if not FOSS themselves, so it's probably safe to discuss it here. :) Do people (other than John Young) still use PGP? Why