Re: Malformed Revokation Certificate?

2012-08-08 Thread Jay Litwyn
On 2012-08-08 2:20 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 07/08/12 15:18, Jay Litwyn wrote: >> I submitted this revokation certificate to a couple of servers and >> they said it was malformed, >> and I had trouble guessing how to generate anything different. So, I >> imported

Malformed Revokation Certificate?

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Litwyn
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Malformed Revokation Certificate?

2012-08-07 Thread Jay Litwyn
I submitted this revokation certificate to a couple of servers and they said it was malformed, and I had trouble guessing how to generate anything different. So, I imported the revokation certificate, exported the whole key, and submitted that. It worked. Thanks to the availability of PGP 2.6.3i,

Re: Including public key

2011-07-29 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-29 6:03 PM, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 4:22:52 PM, in > , Jay Litwyn wrote: > > >> Do not sign my photo until you see me in person, > > OK, fair enough. If the key has WoT signatures fro

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-28 6:05 PM, Crypto Stick wrote: >> At the moment, my secret key is stored on my hard drive and is >> encrypted by a long passphrase. When I transfer my subkeys to the >> smartcard, will they actually be encrypted whilst they're on >> there? > > The ve

Re: Including public key

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-28 10:08 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: (...) >> It's quite a new system, but supported by the W3C and on it's way >> to becoming a standard. For more info see the video at: >> http://webid.info/ (...) paypal and your bank are unlikely subscribers to thi

Re: Including public key

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-28 10:08 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > On 28 July 2011 16:01, MFPA wrote: Hi > > > On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 12:53:41 PM, in > , Jay Litwyn wrote: > >>>> Attaching a photo to your public key might help. So might

Re: Including public key

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-28 8:01 AM, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 12:53:41 PM, in > , Jay Litwyn wrote: > >> Attaching a photo to your public key might help. So might putting >> a phone number on your public key. >

Re: Including public key

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-27 8:25 PM, Len Cooley wrote: > Well, let me ask you this. Is it useful/useless/ridiculous/orwhat to > attach your public key as a sig at the end of an email, such as > below? > It depends on the environment of your receiver. Would they be subject t

Re: How secure are smartcards?

2011-07-28 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In my entry on a related thread, I was thinking that one of the simpler ways to foil attacks on bank cards would be to make a smart card play dumb and accept any old pin (symmetric encryption key for a private key). That would (almost) force attackers to communic

Re: Where are those stubs..

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
On 2011-07-20 6:38 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:56:54AM -0400, Jerry wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:43:06 +0100 >> da...@gbenet.com articulated: > ..snip >>> Most people have Microsoft on their desktop or laptop without any >>> choice. They do

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
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Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-20 9:39 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:23:12AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:25, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: >>> I'm presenting the script here in case someone else finds >>> it useful, but really, it's emb

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

2011-07-20 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 2011-07-20 4:31 AM, Richard wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:57, Robert J. Hansen > wrote: >> Is there some particular reason why you send messages in an >> obfuscated format? > > how is that working anyway? Apparently GPG automatically decryp

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
On 2011-07-19 6:18 PM, Kara wrote: > > > Reference Robert J. Hansen's 19 Jul 2011, 1504 (-0700), "Re: secring > and dropbox": > >>> Is it a bad idea to place your secring in dropbox? >> Depends entirely on the strength of your passphrase. With a strong >> enough passphrase you could publish

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

2011-07-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- To make a long story short. I created a key with jenuine pgp 10. I exported it with IDEA. I made gpg 1.2.2 work with IDEA. Making gpg 1.4.11 work with IDEA failed. I changed my pass-phrase using --crypt-algo CAST5 with 1.2.2. Now, enigmail works, so I am one ha

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

2011-07-19 Thread Jay Litwyn
Looks like the answer to my question iz: Not legally. I was thinking that IDEA was more than ten years old, which I thot meant that the patent on it was expired. Silly me, though, looks like patent law changed for about seven more years of length. So, while I'm waiting for six months or whatever, I

Re: Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

2011-07-18 Thread Jay Litwyn
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Can version 1.4.11 be configured to use IDEA?

2011-07-18 Thread Jay Litwyn
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