Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-27 Thread Peter Todd
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:14:30PM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: > Peter Todd wrote: > > The *only* thing included in the hash is what is between the START > > and END bits, that's it, no headers no nothing. I'm not positive, > > but I belive the MIME based PGP is

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:37:09AM -0700, ptr wrote: > > Agree with the DNS poisoning, my form would need to be SSL'ed with my private > certificate. > > In terms of educating my recipients - yes, it may be tricky, that is > probably the weakest poin

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-24 Thread Peter Todd
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:29:11AM -0700, ptr wrote: > > I cannot "force" my recipients to install any PGP software so I was thinking > about creating signature verification form on my website. If someone wanted > to check if the email is really from me, he/she could paste the signed email > part

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Todd
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:24:51PM -0500, Ryan Malayter wrote: > On 5/16/07, Peter Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then only that > > passphrase needs to be securely stored and the secret key can be stored > > with standard backup procedures. > > I belie

Re: Printing Keys and using OCR.

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Todd
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:28:24PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > One trick that can be done when paper escrowing OpenPGP keys is to > only print the part you care about. OpenPGP secret keys are heavily > padded with non-secret data. In fact, the secret key contains a > complete copy of the public ke