Re: 2.16.840.1.113733.1.7.1.1

2011-05-09 Thread MichaelQuigley
- Message from Robert J. Hansen r...@sixdemonbag.org on Sat, 07 May 2011 22:21:41 -0400 - To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Best practice for periodic key change? On 05/07/2011 09:50 PM, David Shaw wrote: Incidentally, speaking of bitmap signatures - a signature

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011, 14:50:36 schrieb MFPA: Mainly the key's owner, but could also protect others from relying on signatures from a compromised key for which they have not received a revocation certificate. Right. The problem: Protection you don't know of. So seriously this additional

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 9 May 2011 at 5:09:00 PM, in mid:201105091809.05423.mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de, Hauke Laging wrote: Am Sonntag, 8. Mai 2011, 14:50:36 schrieb MFPA: Mainly the key's owner, but could also protect others from relying on

Problem with the pgp to gpg key migration

2011-05-09 Thread Pramod . R
Hi, I tried migrating the public and the private key from the pgp(6.5.8) keyring to the gpg(1.4.11) by following the below commands: 1) Tried exporting the private and the public key from pgp using the commands: pgp -kx pubkey.pgp pgp -kx sec.pgp

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Montag, 9. Mai 2011, 19:51:12 schrieb MFPA: Could that be a form of attack? Bob and Mallory sign a contract of some kind - it transpires the contract benefits Bob - Mallory tries to make it look as if Bob had not signed. That would not work for several reasons which arise not from

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Jerome Baum
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 18:09, Hauke Laging mailinglis...@hauke-laging.dewrote: IMHO there are only two possibilities for making (a new version of) OpenPGP signature law compatible: a) The CA creates a mainkey and subkeys. The mainkey is destroyed immediately afterwards. That might be

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/10/2011 12:01 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: c) Program the smart-card so it doesn't sign sub-keys? I'm not familiar with the internals of smart-card implementations but the OpenPGP sub-key signatures are of a different type than the data signatures. The smart-card can probably recognize if it's

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/10/2011 12:32 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: Is that an implementation problem? i.e. is it possible to write an implementation that does distinguish, or is it technically impossible w/out processing the entire data on-card? As i understand the process, i think it would be necessary to pass all

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Grant Olson
On 5/10/2011 12:41 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 05/10/2011 12:32 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: Is that an implementation problem? i.e. is it possible to write an implementation that does distinguish, or is it technically impossible w/out processing the entire data on-card? As i understand the

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Jerome Baum
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:01, Grant Olson k...@grant-olson.net wrote: On 5/10/2011 12:41 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Maybe one of the folks with experience implementing these devices can give more concrete details? I can confirm. The cards only get the hash and sign that. The trouble

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Grant Olson
On 5/10/2011 1:10 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:01, Grant Olson k...@grant-olson.net mailto:k...@grant-olson.net wrote: On 5/10/2011 12:41 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Maybe one of the folks with experience implementing these devices can give more

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Jerome Baum
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:30, Grant Olson k...@grant-olson.net wrote: But there's no way to prove that the keys were originally generated on-card, and weren't imported from a software private key where there was never a separate master certification key. AFAIK, the CAs over here will just

Re: Best practice for periodic key change?

2011-05-09 Thread Grant Olson
On 5/10/2011 1:35 AM, Jerome Baum wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:30, Grant Olson k...@grant-olson.net mailto:k...@grant-olson.net wrote: But there's no way to prove that the keys were originally generated on-card, and weren't imported from a software private key where there