Mailvelope browser extension for webmail

2017-05-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi list, Thoughts on the Mailvelope browser extension...? Here's some of their material: https://www.mailvelope.com/en/faq "What is the purpose of this project? Mailvelope is an easy-to-use web-browser extension which brings OpenPGP encryption to webmail services such as Gmail™, Yahoo™ and

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users to test your gpg

2017-05-29 Thread Marcus Brinkmann via Gnupg-users
For people who want to communicate with other people rather than bots, there is also this: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPGpractice/ https://www.reddit.com/r/publickeyexchange/ On 05/29/2017 01:00 PM, Duane Whitty wrote: > Hi list, > > When I checked my email this morning I had an encrypted message

Don't send encrypted messages to random users to test your gpg

2017-05-29 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi list, When I checked my email this morning I had an encrypted message from someone I didn't know and had never heard of signed with a signature for which no public key was available. When I saw the email with a subject "test, test, hello" (or something to that effect" I decided not to let

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users to test your gpg

2017-05-29 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 29 May 2017 at 2:18:18 PM, in , Marcus Brinkmann via Gnupg-users wrote:- > For people who want to communicate with other people > rather than bots, > there is also this:

Re: Planned GnuPG mirror shutdown: mirror.se.partyvan.eu

2017-05-29 Thread Justus Winter
Juuso Lapinlampi writes: > I'm the operator of a GnuPG mirror at Partyvan. We've had a listed > GnuPG mirror for ~1.5 years now. [1] > [...] > I don't know yet if or when we could return to providing this mirror > server to the public and GnuPG. For the time being, you may want

Don't send encrypted messages to random users

2017-05-29 Thread listo factor via Gnupg-users
This I find surprising: if one does not want receiving encrypted messages from those that he does not have existing relationship with, why does he publish his public key on public keyservers? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users

2017-05-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> This I find surprising: if one does not want receiving > encrypted messages from those that he does not have > existing relationship with, why does he publish his > public key on public keyservers? All presence on the keyservers says is, "if you have something to send me, you may send it

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users

2017-05-29 Thread Ineiev
On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 11:52:27PM +, Konstantin Gribov wrote: > > As an example, many open source devs are publishing their keys which they > use for signing software releases but rarely for encrypted communication. On the other hand, they could publish certificates without encrypting

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users

2017-05-29 Thread Konstantin Gribov
Primary reason to publish a key is to make it available for fetching. It isn't a permission for anyone to annoy a person anyhow. As an example, many open source devs are publishing their keys which they use for signing software releases but rarely for encrypted communication. On Tue, May 30,