Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Werewolf escribió: That brings up query for using Engimail with ThunderbirdPortable. It want the gpg binaries in Apps/gpg dir and the keyrings in Data/gpg. Am I to assume the gpg.conf should be with the keyrings (Data/gpg)? I _think_ the

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-24 Thread Laurent Jumet
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello Faramir ! Faramir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That brings up query for using Engimail with ThunderbirdPortable. It want the gpg binaries in Apps/gpg dir and the keyrings in Data/gpg. Am I to assume the gpg.conf should be with the

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-24 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Kevin Hilton wrote: Who was behind the pgp 6.5.8 ckt release? http://sixdemonbag.org/cryptofaq.xhtml#ckt How does this piece of antiquated software compare to modern day gnupg as far as ciphers used, digests used, etc. IMO, badly. YMMV. ___

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-24 Thread vedaal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on Fri Oct 24 12:54:55 CEST 2008: # Kevin Hilton wrote: Who was behind the pgp 6.5.8 ckt release? # Imad Faiad was responsible for most of it, Disastry checked and wrote the code for the new revisions, i

set type digest mode? plus other query // sorry, bad hushmail wrap wrecked sig

2008-10-24 Thread vedaal
hushmail wrapped the signed cleartext and invalidated the sig, here it's tried again ;-| -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on Fri Oct 24 12:54:55 CEST 2008: # Kevin Hilton wrote: Who was behind the pgp 6.5.8 ckt release? # Imad Faiad

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-24 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Laurent Jumet escribió: Hello Faramir ! Hello! Faramir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I _think_ the gpg.conf should be in the same dir where the gpg.exe file is located... just try it, if it doesn't work, then move it to the other

PGP 6.5.8 ckt, just say no. (was: Re: set type digest mode? plus other query)

2008-10-24 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 24, 2008, at 10:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] any ckt V4 rsa keys generated, have the rsa subkey as both sign and encrypt, and there is (as yet, afaik,) no way that gnupg can be used to get such a key to cross-certify the primary key, and since the subkey will be used by default by

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Werewolf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Faramir wrote: Werewolf escribió: Been trying find references on net etc Is there way to set which digest mode gpg uses for clear signed messages depending on which uid is set as the primary?? Tried edited the uid with setpref S9 S8 S7 S3 S2 H8

DSA2 (was Re: set type digest mode? plus other query)

2008-10-23 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:53:06PM -0400, Werewolf wrote: That brings up query for using Engimail with ThunderbirdPortable. It want the gpg binaries in Apps/gpg dir and the keyrings in Data/gpg. Am I to assume the gpg.conf should be with the keyrings (Data/gpg)? That is the common setup.

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Secondly I wonder if since my key is 1024 bit DSA that limits the algo usable to say sha1, md5, etc? Saw a note about --enable-dsa2 option, not all applications support this yet. Given latency of the net; is this note still very relevant or just slight relevant? Your question is not very

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Andrew Berg
Robert J. Hansen wrote: A: Depends on who you correspond with. There are still a lot of PGP 6 installs out there. 6.5.8 seems popular. Any idea why? -- Key ID: 0xF88E034060A78FCB Fingerprint: 4A84 CAE2 A0D3 2AEB 71F6 07FD F88E 0340 60A7 8FCB Windows NT 6.0.6001.18145 | GPG 1.4.9 |

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Andrew Berg wrote: 6.5.8 seems popular. Any idea why? It was the last version of PGP to be released freeware for UNIX. To this day, PGP has more brand recognition than GnuPG; people who only know I need PGP to do $foo will more often than not look around for PGP for UNIX and find 6.5.8. On the

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Andrew Berg
Robert J. Hansen wrote: Andrew Berg wrote: 6.5.8 seems popular. Any idea why? It was the last version of PGP to be released freeware for UNIX. Ah. PGP 6.5.8, like PGP 2.6, is good enough for most people and purposes. Which means that no matter how much we want to get rid of them, they

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Andrew Berg wrote: Isn't 2.6 over 10 years old? Is it even compatible with the Windows NT kernel? Try fifteen or more -- and yes, it is. It's a very, _very_ simple piece of software; it'll compile anywhere that's even faintly, vaguely, making noises about being POSIX conformant. Such as, say,

set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Kevin Hilton
Who was behind the pgp 6.5.8 ckt release? That seemed like a solid piece of software at the time. If your were using windows, it provided a good tray interface, and made encryption/decryption very easy. How does this piece of antiquated software compare to modern day gnupg as far as ciphers

Re: set type digest mode? plus other query

2008-10-23 Thread Werewolf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Robert J. Hansen wrote: Secondly I wonder if since my key is 1024 bit DSA that limits the algo usable to say sha1, md5, etc? Saw a note about --enable-dsa2 option, not all applications support this yet. Given latency of the net; is this note