Collaborate Disseminate
I have been reading about OpenPGP and I still have one doubt. When you first create a key pair, it generates a public key and a private key. One of the keys is used for signing and certificate [SC], while the other is used for encryption [… Continue reading Certificate and signing in OpenPGP [duplicate]
I have a query regarding best practice of using PGP to sign emails with Thunderbird 78.
Thunderbird 78 took an existing system by Enigmail and brought it "in-house" to be built into the email client program. This results in some … Continue reading PGP security with Thunderbird 78 email client
Are there benefits to set an expiration date on a PGP primary key which is only used offline?
Is setting an expiration date only on the subkeys enough?
Situation
I have a university Gmail email address. I’m trying to migrate away from sending emails with the Gmail web client to one I have more control over like Thunderbird. It’s also because Gmail eats up a lot of RAM. I set out to learn … Continue reading How many keys do you use for signing and encrypting emails?
While increasing my communication security as much as possible, I came across OpenPGP & S/MIME and already use an OpenPGP key pair in both of my mail clients (PC & smartphone).
I believe the CSR must be generated based on a truely … Continue reading Create CSR for S/MIME certificate from existing OpenPGP key pair
I uploaded my master key’s public part to the keys.openpgp.org-keyserver. It has 4 UIDs set up (4 different e-mail addresses) and each of them are correct and valid e-mail addresses.
The keyserver sent a confirmation mail to all of the e-m… Continue reading keys.openpgp.org keyserver fails to send confirmation mail to an Outlook-address
As discussed in this answer, gpg does not offer the capacity for subkeys to certify (eg. "sign") other keys, though there may be good reason why it should, and they do sign at least one key. As a practical matter, for those of u… Continue reading A solution for the absence of Certifying Subkeys in OpenPGP Certs
Currently I can use
$ gpg –card-status
to interact with smartcards that run the OpenPGP applet. Through trial-and-error, it seems that only the first card reader will interact with gpg. Using options that pass to scdaemon seem to be depr… Continue reading GnuPG – connecting to specific card reader when multiple reader available
Unstructured file data is the fastest-growing segment of enterprise data. And the need to store, protect, synchronize and collaborate on files globally is driving enterprises to migrate their file data to the cloud. Leveraging public or private clouds… Continue reading 6 Steps to Securing Production File Data in the Cloud
honestly im just now getting into the dark web. the website im using is asking for a PGP key. then i went to igolder to make one. well its asking for an email address and im not sure if i should use my personal email or not.