Gnugpg

[J.Markoll]

Old Rocker a écrit :
> On Monday 30 Jan 2006 20:28, Phillip Susi wrote:
>>I prefer to use the standard s/mime format for email signing and
>>encrypting with x.509 digital certificates.  Gpg seems kludgey to me.
> Maybe a bit OT, but S/MIME (which I wouldn't call standard....) is much 
> less secure than the algorithms used in GPG and can be broken 
> relatively easily.  However, for most purposes its adequate providing 
> you haven't got sensitive stuff being encrypted.
> 
> Probably an exaggeration, but don't forget the US Secret Service once 
> said that if all the personal computers in the world were set to crack 
> one PGP encrypted message, it would taken ten times the age of the 
> universe to crack it.  The algorithms used in later versions of PGP and 
> now GPG are much more secure, and I'd rather use just one system for my 
> encryption and signing that works.
> 
> However, the OP was asking about GPGME, which is a library that allows 
> the integration of GPG into a package that doesn't yet support it.
For those who want to start easy with Gnu Privacy Gard (Gnu/PG) the mail 
-client mozilla-thunderbird offers an mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail 
version. The needed packages are mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail, gnupg 
(the python-gnupginterface may come along with it as well).
Ubuntu brings specifically mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail as a all in one, 
whereas to get something correct as far as version numbers in Mandrake 
last year, I had to compile them from source for one, as a binary for 
the other, and put enigmail as an extension of Thunderbird.

What's cool is the Enigmail menu from which makes it possible to 
administrate the whole key-story in an intuitive enough way.
The trick is to create on key with the longest algorithm available,
(4096 bytes actually) and to create at same time a revocation 
certificate, to keep in a 'safe' place, particularly if you make your 
key so it does not expire, plus put it on a key server.
Then mime or not mime depends upon what the poeple you write to use on 
their side. MIME is the one most used.
Greetings, Joyce Markoll.


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