Re: FAQ October 2019 update

2019-10-15 Thread Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users
Hi, On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 03:17:58PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: ... Those were the high-priority changes that needed to be made. If anyone has other suggestions, speak up: I'm listening. :) A while ago (I can’t find the e-mail anymore) I suggested a few changes that somehow didn’t

Re: FAQ October 2019 update

2019-10-15 Thread Chris Narkiewicz via Gnupg-users
On 15/10/2019 21:59, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Should they update? Yes. Is the problem mitigated by an update? Yes. > But will they? Probably not before wedging their keyring. Given that > high-profile people in the community have had our certificates defaced, > it's possible someone will

Re: A place for discussing WKD spec clarifications?

2019-10-15 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:06, Bjarni Runar Einarsson said: > Would the GnuPG issue tracker be a good place to file "bug > reports" against the spec, to work towards clarifications? That is okay for bug reports, but often it is more important to get the opinions from more people than those who

Re: GPG Agent discarding cache before ttl/max ttl

2019-10-15 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:14, Chip Senkbeil said: > Is there some separate setting for GPG agent to discard its cache > earlier than the ttl/max ttl settings? I've checked the GPG agent You can follow the cache operations by adding log-file /some/log/file debug cache to gpg-agent.conf and

Re: FAQ October 2019 update

2019-10-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Let's start with the most important thing: > I am sorry for having to write these harsh comments I didn't find your comments harsh, but thank you for being considerate. :) >> * Every reference to the SKS keyserver network now points to >> keys.openpgp.org. Reason: the SKS attacks a few months

Re: FAQ October 2019 update

2019-10-15 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:17, Robert J. Hansen said: > * Every reference to the SKS keyserver network now points to > keys.openpgp.org. Reason: the SKS attacks a few months ago. I have to object against this change. The SKS server network is still useful and definitely more useful than an

FAQ October 2019 update

2019-10-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
The last time I gave the FAQ a thorough read-and-review was in October 2017, so it was time for a review. I fought off the urge to rewrite the thing entirely -- I really don't like how it flows, but I view my job as maintainer is more about making minor incremental changes than total rewrites

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I'm confused. I thought the whole efail thing was about crafting a > plain text message that says "Good signature verified" and fools the > user even though it was never run through pgp or had its signature > verified with s/mime. I'd suggest reading the Efail paper. The vast majority of the

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-15 Thread Phillip Susi
Werner Koch writes: > authenticated encryption is different from signed and encrypted mails. > There are relative easy attacks on the encryption layer if standard > encryption modes like CBC (as in S/MIME) are used. Whether this really > affects users is a different question but they can be

GPG Agent discarding cache before ttl/max ttl

2019-10-15 Thread Chip Senkbeil via Gnupg-users
Hey folks! Been using GPG for a couple of months to encrypt, sign, and authenticate and it's been great! I'm trying to understand the scenarios in which the GPG agent will remove an entry from its cache. I've got my default and max cache (both cache-ttl and cache-ttl-ssh) set to one day such

Re: Future OpenPGP Support in Thunderbird

2019-10-15 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 14.10.2019 22:45, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:43, Kristian Fiskerstrand said: > >> was suggested by Kristian and Andre: talking to SCDaemon (scd) with IPC. >> Details need to be discussed, but it would be an optional solution, that > > Given that TB already has smartcard