Re: gpg for anonymous users - Alternative to the web of trust?

2013-03-26 Thread David Chadwick
Its pretty much impossible to distinguish a nation-state's covert agency personnel who are masquerading as someone else from the real someone else. In the UK we have recently had examples of undercover agents infiltrating animal rights groups or similar as activists, forming deep emotional

Re: new release of GPA

2012-10-30 Thread David Chadwick
Perhaps our anonymous user would like us to use his free software because it has nice backdoors in it that allow certain organisations to decrypt all our encrypted emails. And without access to the source code, we can never be sure that there aren't any. So I would not touch it with a barge

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-28 Thread David Chadwick
That tool is encryption, and it doesn't only enforce our privacy right, it also make us aware about people trying to take away that right from us, because the one trying to take away that right, first would have to take away our right to use encryption, or force us to install some backdoor on

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-27 Thread David Chadwick
Probably from the IDF or similar organisation David On 27/08/2012 14:13, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Is No such Client nosuchcli...@gmail.com a troll to block ? Cheers, Julian ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-25 Thread David Chadwick
Another paper is Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to PKI Deployment and Usage by Steve Hanna, available from middleware.internet2.edu/pki04/proceedings/action_plan.pdf regards David On 25/08/2012 00:13, John Clizbe wrote: Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 08/24/2012 08:24 AM,

Visible Password

2012-06-22 Thread David Chadwick
Hi All I was demonstrating GPA for the first time to a class of students yesterday and a very strange thing happened. (Note that I am new to GPA, having used OpenPGP for the last 10 years, so I am not familiar with its normal behaviour). When I signed a message in the clipboard and was asked

Re: Visible Password

2012-06-22 Thread David Chadwick
. Hansen wrote: On 6/22/2012 11:54 AM, David Chadwick wrote: I was demonstrating GPA for the first time to a class of students yesterday and a very strange thing happened. I was able to recreate this on GPG4WIN Win7/64, incidentally. The problem does not appear to be in GPA, but in pinentry. It can

Visible Password

2012-06-22 Thread David Chadwick
Hi All I was demonstrating GPA for the first time to a class of students yesterday and a very strange thing happened. (Note that I am new to GPA, having used OpenPGP for the last 10 years, so I am not familiar with its normal behaviour). When I signed a message in the clipboard and was asked