RE: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
David Picon Alvarez wrote: Options 4 and 5 are much preferable to option 0 (GnuPG implements PKCS#11 and people use non-free drivers) and not implementing PKCS#11 might put some optimizing pressure in this direction. Again, you are wrong. There is not point in writing a low level code in each

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 15:56:22 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: 2. OpenPGP trust model isn't as 'strong' as X.509 (i.e. there aren't many trusted introducers) OpenPGP does not define any trust model. Instead it provides the mechanisms to implement any kind of trust modell on top of it. Salam-Shalom,

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread David Picon Alvarez
There is not point in writing a low level code in each application to support each card it is NxN situation, not wise. The truth is that if cards were more ISO compliant this situation would not be a big deal. Also I'm sure a lot of this code could be shared among apps. Anyway, I'm a gpg user

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
David Shaw wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:36:37PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Kurt Fitzner wrote: snip gpg --edit-key keyID clean And setting the clean-sigs and clean-uids options on import-options, export-options, and keyserver-options are our only defense until then. Like you, I refreshed

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: David Picon Alvarez wrote: I dropped all stuff regarding the differences using API and communication... I think you are wrong, there is exception for the rules... I try now to contact FSF for a formal position. The lawyer who wrote GPL wrote it with the explicit

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Werner Koch wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 19:35:34 +0200, Zeljko Vrba said: As Alon did remark earlier, the general movement in the industry is towards multi-purpose smart-cards. OpenPGP card currently doesn't fall into this category. Not true. The OpenPGP card specification is a card

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alphax wrote: You trust the Microsoft CryptoAPI? Well why don't you just run Windows, which Microsoft Says is Perfectly Secure, and use Microsoft's inbuilt X.509 instead of OpenPGP, since Microsoft Guarantees No Back Doors in the CryptoAPI?

RE: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
David Picon Alvarez wrote: You trust the Microsoft CryptoAPI? Well why don't you just run Windows, which Microsoft Says is Perfectly Secure, and use Microsoft's inbuilt X.509 instead of OpenPGP, since Microsoft Guarantees No Back Doors in the CryptoAPI? No! this is not the issue of

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:02:56PM +0930, Alphax wrote: Not true. The OpenPGP card specification is a card application and you may put as many other applications on a card as you like and the EEPROM allows to. With 6k (and even less possible) it is actually a pretty small application.

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread David Picon Alvarez
The only place in the GPL where libraries are mentioned is in reference to the LGPL. Using the Microsoft CryptoAPI doesn't appear to be legal; AFAICT, this is similar to the reason why Enigmail insists on GPG instead of being able to interface with PGP on Windows systems. Wrong. From GPL

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Peter Gutmann wrote: Alphax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zeljko Vrba wrote: Joe Smith wrote: For example, your CA can revoke your key leaving you with one key that is invalid X.509, but valid OpenPGP? Yuck! Using the X.509 cert and OpenPGP public key (having the same private key) could be

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Alphax
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Alphax wrote: The only place in the GPL where libraries are mentioned is in reference to the LGPL. Using the Microsoft CryptoAPI doesn't appear to be legal; AFAICT, this is similar to the reason why Enigmail insists on GPG instead of being able to interface with PGP on

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alphax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Zeljko Vrba wrote: Joe Smith wrote: For example, your CA can revoke your key leaving you with one key that is invalid X.509, but valid OpenPGP? Yuck! Using the X.509 cert and OpenPGP public key (having the same private key) could be useful in the following

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Zeljko Vrba
Alphax wrote: 1. What's the standard size of the EEPROM on a smartcard suitable for OpenPGP? YOu have cards ranging from 8k to 64k 2. What else could you fit on such a card? debit/credit applications, X.509 PKI applications, data-containers, etc. 3. Is it possible to have multiple

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Zeljko Vrba
David Picon Alvarez wrote: There is not point in writing a low level code in each application to support each card it is NxN situation, not wise. The truth is that if cards were more ISO compliant this situation would not be a big deal. Even if this were to happen, ISO still doesn't say

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Henrik O A Barkman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To my knowledge, the PGP GD doesn't sync with anyone. It would be interesting to know how/where these signatures are leaking into the keyserver net. Probably some PGP users who are automagically synchronising their entire keyrings with multiple

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Zeljko Vrba
Alon Bar-Lev wrote: Great! Super! Amazing! If you can do it with a little effort I will glad to check and use it. Not so little. I don't have any card or PKCS#11 driver. Mozilla NSS is a pain to set up. I have no idea how to use its softtoken implementation. Opencryptoki uses ^$@@#$$#^!!ng

cant sent a sig with inline openpgp

2005-09-07 Thread Stefan Fuhrmann
Hello all, I use kubuntu with kmail and kgpg. When I try to send a mail with signature and I use inline openpgp then the sig is attached and not inline. I see this when I send a mail to winusers and outlook. Can someone tell me how I can send a signature inline? So PGP on outlook can read it?

Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
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Re: OpenPGP Card

2005-09-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:13:02PM +0200, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: PS The whole discussion made me curious; I worked with smartcards extensively few years ago and was grossly disappointed with the stuff from the development side, but times they are a'changin... Where can I purchase a

How to run a key server

2005-09-07 Thread Berend Tober
This may be a very silly question, but I want to know what is involved with running a key server? A manager has asked about whether we can somehow use electronic signatures on internal documents to reduce paper and printer costs as well as the problem of occasionally losing a printed piece of

Re: How to run a key server

2005-09-07 Thread Cameron Metzke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Berend Tober wrote: This may be a very silly question, but I want to know what is involved with running a key server? A manager has asked about whether we can somehow use electronic signatures on internal documents to reduce paper and printer

Re: How to run a key server

2005-09-07 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:29:18PM -0400, Berend Tober wrote: This may be a very silly question, but I want to know what is involved with running a key server? A manager has asked about whether we can somehow use electronic signatures on internal documents to reduce paper and printer costs

Re: PGP global directory cruft in keyservers

2005-09-07 Thread Kurt Fitzner
David Shaw wrote: Would be difficult to do in SKS. You need to be able to verify signatures (so cleaning doesn't remove the wrong signature), and right now SKS doesn't verify signatures. The problem isn't widespread in that other keyservers are doing this sort of thing. A simple explicit