photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
I've been looking for documentation with info on adding a photo id to a gpg key. The instructions for adding are available but I can't find any advice for the size, format, dpi etc of the image to be used. I guess that the image size should be kept down somewhat to avoid making the key too

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-31 Thread Brian Minton
It seemed to me that all Kelly was trying to do was print the fingerprint of a key from a file. On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Ryan Sawhill r...@b19.org wrote: I disagree with your subject, and propose that you google for a tutorial since the man page clearly didn't work for you. (As far

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I've been looking for documentation with info on adding a photo id to a gpg key. The instructions for adding are available but I can't find any advice for the size, format, dpi etc of the image to be used. The major problem is there is very little good advice about this, and what there is

The praise of GnuPG @31C3 and why it is important (was: Guys please all see)

2014-12-31 Thread Nicolai Josuttis
OK, for those who didn't have time to see the talk at 31C3 as a whole and therefore wondering why this is an important talk, let me point out and quote some content from

The praise of GnuPG @31C3

2014-12-31 Thread Nicolai Josuttis
Disclaimer: Sorry guys, I first wrote these emails as part of another thread. (Not enough sleep over the last days of 31C3 ...) But because IMO this is something important for this list, please allow me to redistribute it as separate thread, again. For those who didn't have time to see it yet,

Re: Key selection

2014-12-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 12/27/2014 02:41 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 12/27/14 9:36 AM, Sandeep Murthy wrote: | I have four keypairs associated with my main email, two of which | are revoked and one expired. But if I try to edit the main key | associated with email by | | $ gpg --edit-key email | | then it

Re: The praise of GnuPG @31C3

2014-12-31 Thread Markus Reichelt
* Nicolai Josuttis n...@josuttis.de wrote: For those who didn't have time to see it yet, there was an important talk at 31C3 about the social and technical status and consequences of encryption by Jacob Applebaum and Laura Poitras. As a side effect it covers GnuPG significantly. So,

Re: Key selection

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
Hi I didn’t mean to suggest that `gpg` should do any guessing in this situation. Maybe I’m wrong and this is a minor issue, but from a simple request-response model point of view when `gpg —edit-key` is invoked by a user with an argument which i not a specific key ID but an email which is

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 31 December 2014 at 2:31:31 PM, in mid:05827616-4c64-4e5d-b80c-0b6b4f0c9...@sixdemonbag.org, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I personally don’t find photo ID to be a useful feature. They’re too static. The photo ID on my

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I don’t agree. Why isn’t the photo ID feature not useful? Surely any piece of information that would help another person, with whom you are proposing to communicate, to identify you first, is a good thing. Before they can trust you enough to sign the key (which can’t be very often using the PGP

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
On 31/12/14 14:27, Sandeep Murthy wrote: https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/OpenPGP-Key-Management.html#OpenPGP-Key-Management. The command is the `addphoto` subcommand of `—edit-key` - one adds a photo by executing `$ gpg —edit-key short key ID addphoto` which prints

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Philip Jackson
On 31/12/14 15:31, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I've been looking for documentation with info on adding a photo id to a gpg key. The instructions for adding are available but I can't find any advice for the size, format, dpi etc of the image to be used. The major problem is there is very

Re: The praise of GnuPG @31C3

2014-12-31 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/31/2014 3:25 PM, mark hellewell wrote: And the “ssh is broken” remark strikes me as a little dramatic, too. Well I've seen vague references to some of the less secure settings being vulnerable, but I've yet to see, everything below this line is vulnerable, everything above this line is

Re: The praise of GnuPG @31C3

2014-12-31 Thread mark hellewell
On 1 January 2015 at 10:19, Doug Barton dougb@dougbarton.email wrote: The death of IPsec has been greatly exaggerated: https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2014/12/29/dont-stop-using-ipsec-just-yet/ And the “ssh is broken” remark strikes me as a little dramatic, too.

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I agree, this output is not user friendly at all, but did you try instead `$ gpg —edit-key key ID which should start the `gpg` program (interactive environment with the `gpg` prompt, and then you do `gpg fpr` to display the fingerprint. The problem with commands of this type `gpg