[kwlug-disc] Looking for resources to better understand GPG.

[stuart at lowlevel.ca]

I've always found it painful and difficult to use/integrate... and if I mention it to regular people they stop talking to me. Would be interesting to see where things are at...

Stuart

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> On Aug 14, 2017, at 9:41 PM, Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm genuinely slightly averse to PGP right now because it has no support for modern crypto.  No ECC support in the stable release at all, ed25519 is nowhere to be found as far as I've seen.  Plus since we already have quantum computers that are no longer theoretical.  I'd like to see if we couldn't get ahead of the curve and work on trying to find something that's "quantum safe"
> 
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 7:09 PM Daniel Villarreal <youcanlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA256
>> 
>> On 08/14/17 12:53, bob+kwlug at softscape.ca wrote:
>> > I've been using GPG for a very narrow set of purposes for many
>> > years now ... Thanks in advance, (the other)Bob.
>> ...
>> > [2] O'Reilly has always been my go-to for stuff like this but they
>> > just reference the No Starch Press book. Can anyone comment on how
>> > good a book this is or is there a better one?
>> ...
>> 
>> Going by Michael W. Lucas' "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition, Unix for
>> the Practical Paranoid" (https://www.nostarch.com/obenbsd2e), he is a
>> really good tech writer.
>> 
>> 
>> PGP & GPG
>> Email for the Practical Paranoid
>> by Michael W. Lucas
>> https://www.nostarch.com/pgp.htm
>> 
>> Have fun!
>> 
>> - --
>> Daniel Villarreal
>> http://www.youcanlinux.org
>> youcanlinux at gmail.com
>> PGP key 2F6E 0DC3 85E2 5EC0 DA03  3F5B F251 8938 A83E 7B49
>> https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF2518938A83E7B49
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> 
>> iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJZkfXlAAoJEPJRiTioPntJ/M0H/im3XW5uWVSOaVrK9RHaVhqy
>> FlC60Y9UC2G9UjYGs9An4N002F04Cerk+LCZnx43ukUPctg4wMjimEPLI8YP9G6o
>> iNYlR7noOIMgR6c7x/LnW8NedNp9/DdNLhLW7frl8JY4l2RIj+Um7+WzNSsQV8sA
>> enyskvODOOKI1hVs1BEXFXrzpcGHnmERYS6/Y6nyq3RxfkUFuN5uue3e4iXuTfpa
>> US/8ll8hX8KJes9VmSTUgUqWOL0KScopm68dWTyctJdNPVqRrVhOoCux2kEbzPTW
>> p5uFjHwnGZs+SUV3u3WUyzuxwHWr1786SuETSopHSk7ojX74x9SIPGpyoGXJPMI=
>> =ZFI+
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> 
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