On 10/07/2011 12:15 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
Thanks I may try and set up a key server in that case. Tho I did read
a report that it can be more work than anticipated.
Running a keyserver isn't terribly hard. But you'll need a chunk of
disk space (10G at least), a decent amount of RAM (1G),
On 10/07/2011 11:56 PM, Jerome Baum wrote:
On 2011-10-07 20:55, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:56:36PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
Why at all does this tool use the human readable format? I don't get
it.
Probably because the author of sig2dot(1) doesn't know better.
Why
Hi everybody,
in which cases should I revoke a key in general?
Let's say I have my private key on an USB stick and lose the stick somewhere
in public. The key is protected by the mantra. I'm sure, nobody knows the
mantra except me. Should I revoke the key or could I keep on working with a
On 09-10-2011 23:30, takethe...@gmx.de wrote:
in which cases should I revoke a key in general?
If you think it may be compromised.
Let's say I have my private key on an USB stick and lose the stick
somewhere in public. The key is protected by the mantra. I'm sure, nobody
knows the
On 10/9/11 5:30 PM, takethe...@gmx.de wrote:
in which cases should I revoke a key in general?
Whenever you feel the private key has been compromised.
Unfortunately, that just switches the question to when should I
consider a key compromised?
Let's say I have my private key on an USB stick
That's really up to you, how much you value security or not. It
depends on many factors, like what the key was used for; ie, if this
was the Ubuntu software PGP key, you should revoke it as others are
depending on it to be secure. If you used it for just signing a few
files here and there, it's
