Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ted Smith escribió: ... Deniable encryption is a useful tool, but it is not a universally good idea. An interrogator as described in this thread is a movie plot threat. In reality, nobody is going to torture you for your key, because there are

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Doug Barton escribió: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Faramir wrote: ... I don't see the signature, nor the claim about it being signed. I saw an attachment, but Thunderbird didn't say it was a signature... If you navigate to the message in Thunderbird

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread Malte Gell
Grant Olson k...@grant-olson.net wrote On 7/22/10 6:13 PM, Malte Gell wrote: Hi there! I have the following setup: a Linux luks encrypted partition. It is encrypted with a keyfile, the keyfile itself is GnuPG encrypted and stored in /root ... When I use these commands after

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robert J. Hansen escribió: ... An interrogator as described in this thread is a movie plot threat. In reality, nobody is going to torture you for your key... The point is not about torture. The point is about interrogation. Imagine this

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Simon Ward
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:03:25PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Can anyone else verify messages sent by Andre? His message claims to have a PGP signature, but what's in what should be the signature block isn't. Mutt isn’t verifying these either. The message Content-Type appears to be

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread tux . tsndcb
Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. It was an init script issue. On openSUSE there is an init script earlyxdm and it has overridden so to say the pinentry-ncurses program. I have now edited earlyxdm and have added my own script to Requried-Start, thus

gpg --batch --yes --edit-key trust

2010-07-23 Thread mark
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }I need to be able to ultimately trust a public key in batch mode, that I have downloaded automatically with wget from an internal server over HTTPS. I don't want to do --trust-model always, apart from the fact I want to use a

Re: gpg --batch --yes --edit-key trust

2010-07-23 Thread David Smith
m...@proseconsulting.co.uk wrote: I need to be able to ultimately trust a public key in batch mode, that I have downloaded automatically with wget from an internal server over HTTPS. I don't want to do --trust-model always, apart from the fact I want to use a trusted key anyway, gpg

Re: Re: gpg --batch --yes --edit-key trust

2010-07-23 Thread mark
On Fri 23/07/10 11:48 AM , David Smith dave.sm...@st.com sent: I need to be able to ultimately trust a public key in batch mode, that I have downloaded automatically with wget from an internal server over HTTPS. I think that you might be confusing trust with validity. If you want it

Importing/Merging (secret) subkey into existing secret key

2010-07-23 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
Hello, How do I import a subkey into an existing secret key? I use a DSA key with El-Gamal encryption keys that I regenerate every year. At some point my keyrings got out of sync and I ended up carrying on with an older key. There was a secret subkey in the middle there that got lost and I only

[Announce] Security Alert for GnuPG 2.0 - Realloc bug in GPGSM

2010-07-23 Thread Werner Koch
Realloc Bug with X.509 certificates in GnuPG == 2010-07-23 Summary === While trying to import a server certificate for a CDN service, a segv bug was found in GnuPG's GPGSM tool. It is likely

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread vedaal
Message: 4 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:19:50 +0100 From: Andre Amorim an...@amorim.me To: GnuPG Users gnupg-users@gnupg.org Do we have a plausibly deniable option ? GnuPG can be used for plausible deniability both for encrypting and for signing: [1] hiding the identity of the encryption: The

re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread vedaal
vedaal at nym.hush.com wrote on Fri Jul 23 15:51:38 CEST 2010 and since you really didn't encrypt the message, you can't give up the session key, and now the government wants *all* your keys and passwords to prove you didn't encrypt the message. Sorry :-) meant to say: and since you

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/23/2010 09:51 AM, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: From: Andre Amorim an...@amorim.me Do we have a plausibly deniable option ? [1] hiding the identity of the encryption: The 'throw-keyids' option hides which keys the message is encrypted to [...] The government can claim, that in order

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread vedaal
Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net wrote on Fri Jul 23 16:32:17 CEST 2010 : There is no way to prove that you did not encrypt a message. Agreed. But it is very simple to either give up a session key to an encrypted message, or show that that the message was not encrypted to any

Re: gpg --batch --yes --edit-key trust

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/23/2010 07:35 AM, m...@proseconsulting.co.uk wrote: On Fri 23/07/10 11:48 AM , David Smith dave.sm...@st.com sent: I need to be able to ultimately trust a public key in batch mode, that I have downloaded automatically with wget from an internal server over HTTPS. I think that you

User ID without email address

2010-07-23 Thread war_is_peace
Hi, I'm planning on finally uploading my key to a keyserver. Now I had the idea to add a primary user ID which contains only my name and no email address. The reason would be that i won't lose any signatures if I change my email address and revoke the then obsolete user id. Does that make sense?

Re: User ID without email address

2010-07-23 Thread James P. Howard, II
On 7/23/10 11:51 AM, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net wrote: Does that make sense? Are there known problems if a (primary) user ID doesn't contain any email address? Nope! Check out 0xE6602099 for my key with a primary uid of James Patrick Howard, II. James -- James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS

Re: User ID without email address

2010-07-23 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:51 AM, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net wrote: Hi, I'm planning on finally uploading my key to a keyserver. Now I had the idea to add a primary user ID which contains only my name and no email address. The reason would be that i won't lose any signatures if I change my

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread Malte Gell
tux.tsn...@free.fr wrote Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. It was an init script issue. On openSUSE there is an init script earlyxdm and it has overridden so to say the pinentry-ncurses program. I have now edited earlyxdm and have added my own

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Faramir wrote: Doug Barton escribió: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Faramir wrote: ... I don't see the signature, nor the claim about it being signed. I saw an attachment, but Thunderbird didn't say it was a signature... If you navigate to the message in Thunderbird and then

Re: User ID without email address

2010-07-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David Shaw escribió: On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:51 AM, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net wrote: ... I'm planning on finally uploading my key to a keyserver. Now I had the idea to add a primary user ID which contains only my name and no email address.

Re: Using pinentry-curses interactively in Linux boot process fails (SOLVED)

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Olson
On 7/23/10 2:52 AM, Malte Gell wrote: Yes and the boot partition is not encrypted, only /home But I solved it. Regards Malte Just keep in mind that if you're not encrypting the whole disk, your sensitive data can leak to /tmp and swap. I'm only bringing this up because it seems like

GPG2 SSH SmartCard Private Key Auth

2010-07-23 Thread Frank Stefan Sundberg Solli
Hi Guys. I am currently running OpenSolaris 2010, I got GPG2 set up and my (OpenPGP) Smartcard. I have no problems accesing the smartcard from GPG2 (e.g gpg2 --card-status) everything shows up fine, I am able to edit and view my keys and so on. The problem though is when I'm trying to get

Where is FAQ?

2010-07-23 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have what I am sure is a frequently asked question, but I cannot find a FAQ. I can find the archives, but I know no good way to search them. It is the question about the order of signing and encrypting a message. I am pretty sure that is the

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Ted Smith
On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 02:07 -0400, Faramir wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ted Smith escribió: ... Deniable encryption is a useful tool, but it is not a universally good idea. An interrogator as described in this thread is a movie plot threat. In reality,

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Andre Amorim
On 23 July 2010 23:08, Ted Smith ted...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 02:07 -0400, Faramir wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ted Smith escribió: ... Deniable encryption is a useful tool, but it is not a universally good idea. An interrogator as

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 7/23/2010 6:08 PM, Ted Smith wrote: Nobody in any country is going to torture you for your key, because keyloggers are much less expensive than torturers + torturing equipment. This is not true. There are documented instances where people have been tortured to turn over crypto keys. You

Re: plausibly deniable

2010-07-23 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ted Smith escribió: On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 02:07 -0400, Faramir wrote: ... Well, I suppose in most countries nobody is going to torture you, but there are other countries where you can't be so sure... Also, an ... Nobody in any country is going