Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Hubert Kario
On Monday 03 of December 2012 12:41:10 Hauke Laging wrote: Hello, are there arguments for preferring either a) having one RSA subkey for decryption only and one for signing only or b) having only one RSA subkey for both decryption and signing? Do any problems arise with the

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Di 04.12.2012, 13:19:11 schrieb Hubert Kario: Keys can become used up so it entirely depends on how often you use it. What I mean by that, is that any signing operation leaks some information about the key used for signing (generally far less than few tens of a bit). If you have signed

Re: Is it safe to rename file.gpg to `md5sum file`?

2012-12-04 Thread yyy
There isn't enough entropy in a filename for an MD5 checksum to give much in the way of secrecy. It seems that MD5 checksum is computed from file contents, not name. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 04 of December 2012 14:14:34 Hauke Laging wrote: Am Di 04.12.2012, 13:19:11 schrieb Hubert Kario: Keys can become used up so it entirely depends on how often you use it. What I mean by that, is that any signing operation leaks some information about the key used for signing

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Peter Lebbing
RFC 4880 says this in the Security Considerations part: * Many security protocol designers think that it is a bad idea to use a single key for both privacy (encryption) and integrity (signatures). In fact, this was one of the motivating forces behind the V4 key format with

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Monday 03 of December 2012 12:41:10 Hauke Laging wrote: Hello, are there arguments for preferring either a) having one RSA subkey for decryption only and one for signing only or b) having only one RSA subkey for both

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 04 of December 2012 16:07:26 Nicholas Cole wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Monday 03 of December 2012 12:41:10 Hauke Laging wrote: Hello, are there arguments for preferring either a) having one RSA subkey for decryption only

Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 04 of December 2012 16:07:26 Nicholas Cole wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Monday 03 of December 2012 12:41:10 Hauke Laging wrote: Do any problems arise with the smartcard if the same key shall do different tasks? Keys can

Fwd: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Tuesday 04 of December 2012 16:07:26 Nicholas Cole wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl wrote: On Monday 03 of December 2012 12:41:10 Hauke Laging wrote: Do any problems arise with the

Fwd: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both?

2012-12-04 Thread Nicholas Cole
Meant to post this to the list. Blame gmail. -- Forwarded message -- From: Nicholas Cole nicholas.c...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Seperate RSA subkeys for decryption and signing or one for both? To: Hubert Kario h...@qbs.com.pl How do you propose

Re: Is it safe to rename file.gpg to `md5sum file`?

2012-12-04 Thread sben1783
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:40:22 +0200, yyy y...@yyy.id.lv wrote: There isn't enough entropy in a filename for an MD5 checksum to give much in the way of secrecy. It seems that MD5 checksum is computed from file contents, not name. Yes, I meant to use the MD5 checksum of the original file, not

Re: Keypad support for PC/SC card readers?

2012-12-04 Thread Selene Feigl
Hello I trid it with gnupg 2.0.19-1 from debian testing - PIN is not requested from the card reader. here is the log file. I did use testing keys and non-productive PIN so I hope I did not post anything sensitive 2012-12-04 22:05:10 scdaemon[16008] listening on socket

Seperate Master Key and signing/encrypting subkeys method

2012-12-04 Thread Allen Schultz
GnuPG-Users: I was wondering where that article was about seperating the master key from daily subkeys (both signing and encrypting). I can't seem to find it. Are there other articles on the similar methodologies that are still secure. And is it still recommended that I sign another's keys with

Re: Seperate Master Key and signing/encrypting subkeys method

2012-12-04 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 04-12-2012 18:18, Allen Schultz escribió: GnuPG-Users: I was wondering where that article was about seperating the master key from daily subkeys (both signing and encrypting). I can't seem to find it. Are there other articles on the

Re: Is it safe to rename file.gpg to `md5sum file`?

2012-12-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 12/4/2012 3:03 PM, sben1783 wrote: Yes, I meant to use the MD5 checksum of the original file, not its original name. I'm still interested whether this would be insecure? Let's not even use the word insecure, since that word is wholly subjective: there's no agreed-upon definition for what it