bad keysigning by Geotrust

2006-02-15 Thread Atom Smasher
this is what happens when someone signs a key that shouldn't be signed. it's based on an x.509 (hierarchical) trust model, not a pgp (distributed) trust model, but the consequences are the same: a certification signature that should not have been issued was issued. this is basically mallory

[Announce] False positive signature verification in GnuPG

2006-02-15 Thread Werner Koch
False positive signature verification in GnuPG == Summary === The Gentoo project identified a security related bug in GnuPG. When using any current version of GnuPG for unattended signature verification (e.g. by scripts and

Re: Necessity of GPG when using SSL

2006-02-15 Thread Janusz A. Urbanowicz
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:34:38PM +0100, Jim Berland wrote: Hi everybody, I understand the use of GPG end-to-end-encryption and use it with a few of my contacts. What I want to make sure is the following. I am going to move to China for some time. My email ISP is located outside

Re: OpenPGP smartcard: addcardkey fails

2006-02-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:50:17PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Hi, I'm trying to generate an authentication subkey (tied to my main OpenPGP key) in my OpenPGP (FSFE Fellowship) smartcard (for poldi / SSH use), but can't get it to work. gpg --edit-card and --card-status works like a

OpenPGP smartcard: addcardkey fails

2006-02-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Hi, I'm trying to generate an authentication subkey (tied to my main OpenPGP key) in my OpenPGP (FSFE Fellowship) smartcard (for poldi / SSH use), but can't get it to work. gpg --edit-card and --card-status works like a charm. Command addcardkey gpg: detected reader `SCM SCR 335 (60600ad9) 00

Re: OpenPGP smartcard: addcardkey fails

2006-02-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 07:50:17PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: I'm trying to generate an authentication subkey (tied to my main OpenPGP key) in my OpenPGP (FSFE Fellowship) smartcard (for poldi / SSH use), but can't get it to work. gpg --edit-card and --card-status works like a charm.

Re: OpenPGP smartcard: addcardkey fails

2006-02-15 Thread Alphax
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: Hi, I'm trying to generate an authentication subkey (tied to my main OpenPGP key) in my OpenPGP (FSFE Fellowship) smartcard (for poldi / SSH use), but can't get it to work. gpg --edit-card and --card-status works like a charm. Command addcardkey gpg: detected