Creating key stubs from smartcard without public key

2016-07-25 Thread Felix Winterhalter
So I've recently started experimenting with a Yubikey. I started off by creating an encryption subkey from my master key and moving that to the Yubikey. This worked fine until I moved to a different computer and tried using it there. It didn't automatically recognize the key on the card

Using GPGAgent as SSHAgent on Windows with cygwin/mingw

2016-09-24 Thread Felix Winterhalter
So I am currently trying to get gpg-agent to play nice with ssh on Windows. I'm running gpg version 2.1.15. Using Linux I was able to get everything to run the way I want by adding enable-ssh-support to the agent config and setting the environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK to the gpg agents ssh

Selecting SSH Key in gpg-agent ssh-agent mode

2017-07-17 Thread Felix Winterhalter
Hey there fellow gpg-users, I've been using gpg-agent for a while with my Yubikey and its working fine. Asking me the pin once on each plugin and then silently working in the background. For various reasons I also have on-disk ssh-keys with passphrases that I added with ssh-add to the

Re: suspicious key found

2017-05-16 Thread Felix Winterhalter
There was a proof of concept attack on the fingerprints a couple of years ago. The keys were revoked afterwards. TL;DR short key fingerprints are not secure at all. Also the web of trust is your friend here. Cheers, Felix On 16/05/17 15:47, Janne Inkilä wrote: I made a key search with my

Re: In case you use OpenPGP on a smartphone ...

2020-08-12 Thread Felix Winterhalter
That's a good article and I think it makes a lot of sense in the context. I still think PGP is valid for sending encrypted emails if you exchange public keys beforehand (as he also states he still uses it in that manner). The web of trust also never did anything for me sadly. On 12/08/2020 20:29,