Wyllys:
Thank you for sending a message to this list. I'm the one who commented about
not being able to import an existing private key. I must have missed that and
it's great news.
Thank you again for your efforts and communication.
John
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From: Wyllys Ingersoll <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [gpgtools-users] How do you handle encrypted email on iOS devices?
Hello, nice to see some discussion of iPGMail here. I appreciate the input
from those of you who have contacted me directly with questions and problems.
It seems to be stabilizing as I've seen fewer complaints and more downloads
recently :) I purposely chose a low price for this app in hopes of getting
greater adoption and more feedback from users.
> Concerning the ipgmail, its seems likely if you use 'PhoneView' or the like,
> to access the phone as a USB
> device, you can see in the app a 'Documents' directory and inside another
> directory called 'Inbox' where keys
> are stored and a file called Keys.sqlite which is written in format 3 and I
> suppose is directly editable in some
> app I don't seem to have, to suite your directly added keys. (All advice
> welcome and I will test)
No, Keys.sqlite is just the database that holds the key metadata, it does not
contain raw key data. Raw key data is securely stored in the apps keychain
which is not be accessible.
I will investigate using the iOS document APIs to see if one can pick up keys
directly from the Documents directory for the app so you could use something
like PhoneView or another tool to directly copy the private keys. Private key
data is password protected, so if your password is strong enough, it is fairly
safe to send them over the internet. If you chose a weak password, then
obviously, you assume the risk :)
Also, someone mentioned earlier that iPGMail cannot import private keys, that
is no longer true as of version 1.03. It can import RSA keys from the
clipboard or directly from a mail attachment.
The reason DSA keys are not supported so far is that DSA keys are not supported
by
Apple's crypto APIs or keychain services. I'm working on adding support for
public DSA keys soon. Not sure about private DSA keys, that will probably have
to wait a bit until I figure out how to securely store the keydata outside of
the keychain.
-Will
http://www.ipgmail.com
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