Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Jun/2023 13:02:09 +0200 Alexander Leidinger via Gnupg-users wrote: Quoting Alessandro Vesely (from Tue, 13 Jun 2023 11:19:02 +0200): On Tue 13/Jun/2023 08:46:06 +0200 Alexander Leidinger via Gnupg-users wrote: Quoting Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users (from Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:45

Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Jun/2023 11:40:39 +0200 Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: BTW, the whole DKIM thing does not protect the body of a mail because for example the Content-type is not commonly included in the hash and thus you can change the boundary in this header and then tweak the body. That hack

Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Jun/2023 08:46:06 +0200 Alexander Leidinger via Gnupg-users wrote: Quoting Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users (from Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:45:37 +0200): The From was re-written be the list and as such the header check fails. The body check fails as the list adds the following

Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Jun/2023 09:26:06 +0200 Alexander Leidinger via Gnupg-users wrote: Quoting Werner Koch via Gnupg-users (from Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:02:31 +0200): lists.gnupg.org does not do DKIM.  I know stripped the obvious wrong DKIM-Signature headers before they are processed by Mailman. Let's see

Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 12/Jun/2023 21:24:54 +0200 Konstantin Ryabitsev via Gnupg-users wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 06:45:37PM +0200, Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users wrote: What the list-software would need to do is to strip the original DKIM signature Why? Original signatures can often be recovered

Re: OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 12/Jun/2023 13:05:51 +0200 Alexander Leidinger via Gnupg-users wrote: Quoting Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users (from Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:57:32 +0200): Hi, would someone please explain DKIM settings of lists.gnupg.org? I'm not involved in gnupg.org administration, but it looks like

OT: DKIM signatures on email messages from lists.gnupg.org

2023-06-12 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
Hi, would someone please explain DKIM settings of lists.gnupg.org? Looking at recent posts, I counted 44 with a failed signature by d=gnupg.org, 22 with no DKIM signature at all and none with a good signature. I'm asking because there was a proposal to eliminate SPF from DMARC

Re: [Announce] [CVE-2022-3515] GnuPG / Libksba Security Advisory

2022-10-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 17/Oct/2022 09:43:56 +0200 Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: How to check whether GnuPG has been fixed ~ GnuPG is the most prominent user of Libksba and it is not immediately visible whether a fixed version of Libksba is used. To check this

Re: WKD docs on the wiki, restructuring. Feedback on forUsers page

2021-09-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 28/Sep/2021 17:39:29 +0200 Bernhard Reiter wrote: Feedback (and help) is always appreciated.:) I'm not sure if WKD/forHosts would be a better location than WKDHosting. Anyway, I'd publish the test suggested by Alissa on this list on 8 July 2019: gpg --homedir "$(mktemp -d)"

Re: Certified OpenPGP-encryption after release of Thunderbird 78

2020-05-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Fri 29/May/2020 12:29:48 +0200 Stefan Claas wrote: > Binarus wrote: >> On 28.05.2020 23:21, Stefan Claas wrote: >>> >>> while it is not my business, I do not understand why you have to >>> take care about the Thunderbird issue, as a users and not the >>> Aufsichtsbehörde ... If for example you

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Wed 13/May/2020 11:54:12 +0200 Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users > wrote: > >> I guess that Curve 25519 is mentioned in the IETF standard, isn't it? > > Not yet. Officially, only the NIST P-256, P-384, and

Re: How to improve our GUIs

2019-10-08 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 07/Oct/2019 12:04:33 +0200 Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 21:21, vedaal said: > >> and then a separate option of >> "Export Secret Keys" > > The OP explictly suggested to make the exporting of the secret key not > too easy so that users don't accidently send out

Re: Difficulty of fixing reconciliation

2019-08-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Aug/2019 13:07:07 +0200 Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 13/08/2019 09:54, Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users wrote: >> More than a reasonable number of signatures makes no sense in >> practice, so I agree lists should somehow be "fixed" so as not to >>

Re: PGP Key Poisoner

2019-08-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Tue 13/Aug/2019 12:08:31 +0200 Werner Koch Via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:54, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > >> The bug, however, is in the program that chokes on poisoned keys! > > Nope. This is a long standing DoS protection by limiting the total > length of a keyblock.

Re: PGP Key Poisoner

2019-08-13 Thread Alessandro Vesely via Gnupg-users
On Mon 12/Aug/2019 19:27:49 +0200 Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 12/08/2019 18:39, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: >> Why was is then not fixed a decade ago, like it was done with 2.2.17? > > There is no fix for the SKS keyserver network, which explains why it > wasn't fixed in 2.2.17 either. In

Re: The "advanced" URL of openpgp-webkey-service-07, and l=

2019-02-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 12/Feb/2019 19:36:12 +0100 Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:04, ves...@tana.it said: > >> WELLKNOWN := >> https://openpgpkey.example.org/.well-known/example.org/openpgpkey >> >> doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I tried it with posteo.de, and got: > > The two parts were

The "advanced" URL of openpgp-webkey-service-07, and l=

2019-02-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Werner, I just saw version -07 today. The advanced method: WELLKNOWN := https://openpgpkey.example.org/.well-known/example.org/openpgpkey doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I tried it with posteo.de, and got: ale@pcale:~/tmp$ dig +short openpgp.posteo.de 89.146.220.134 ale@pcale:~/tmp$

Re: Upload key to WKD from command line?

2019-02-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sat 09/Feb/2019 11:20:39 +0100 Wolfgang Traylor wrote: > > Is there a way to upload my public key to the Web Key Directory (WKD) of my > email provider using command-line tools? It might be possible, but not straightforward. The protocol is designed to work over SMTP. It makes sense that a

Re: A question about WKD

2018-12-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 26/Dec/2018 22:59:19 +0100 Stefan Claas wrote: > >> You seem to have already solved that: > > May i ask you what version of GnuPG you are using and what OS? Sure: ale@pcale:~/tmp$ uname -a Linux pcale 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux ale@pcale:~/tmp$

Re: A question about WKD

2018-12-26 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 26/Dec/2018 10:39:39 +0100 Stefan Claas wrote: > > I have set up WKD on my VPS, in order to learn more about it and get now > the following error: > > gpg --encrypt -r s...@300baud.de OpenSSL.txt > gpg: error retrieving 's...@300baud.de' via WKD: Not trusted You seem to have already

Re: Smart cards

2018-12-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi Damien, On Tue 11/Dec/2018 19:11:03 +0100 Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > > I know of at least one NFC-enabled OpenPGP card, the "Fidesmo > Card" [1]. I contacted Leif Scheppelmann at Cotech.de. He says they don't have a shop for their cards because end user market is too small. However,

Re: Smart cards

2018-12-14 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 13/Dec/2018 10:48:52 +0100 Andreas Schwier wrote: > >> I agree that smartphones are not safe, but I am not particularly in favor of >> smartcards, dongles, and security tokens like yubikeys, either. >> >> Any kind of special-purpose cryptographic *hardware* is essentially >>

Re: Smart cards

2018-12-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
ard, somehow? Best Ale -- > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:14 AM Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users > mailto:gnupg-users@gnupg.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 12:35:57PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > > Is it possible to get OpenPGP functionality o

Smart cards

2018-12-11 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi all, I'm trying to spread use of OpenPGP among users of my tiny mail server. I'm recommending 4096-bit keys on smart card, which seems to be the safest bet for a long lasting setup. I print email addresses on the cards, and publish their keys on the web server's wkd. My problem is with

Re: Can't run GPG --recv-keys under Windows Vista.

2007-05-30 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: 1. Vista considers the %ProgramFiles% area as semi-protected. Since GnuPG is installing into this area, it is a reason for concern. Next question is Why is GnuPG installing into this area? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: easy way to confirm email validity

2007-05-25 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Joseph Oreste Bruni wrote: Trying to secure webmail is a lot more tedious since you'd need to prepare the email in a local text-editor, sign it using GnuPG, and paste the resulting text into your browser. There are webmail servers that can do that. The security is weaker, as one has to

Re: Secure text editor?

2007-05-18 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Ryan Malayter wrote: On 5/17/07, Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not quite. That may happen as an undocumented side effect on some (or all) OS versions, and is not what the function is meant to do. The documentation clearly states: These pages are guaranteed not to be written

Re: Secure text editor?

2007-05-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Ryan Malayter wrote: On 5/15/07, Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Windows there is just one way to share memory. Memory locking must be understood in that context. It is meant for synchronization purposes, not for security. LocalLock() and GlobalLock() do indeed seem

Re: Secure text editor?

2007-05-15 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Peter S. May wrote: Peter Lebbing wrote: an editor which will not leak the text in any way, so locking it's pages in memory so they won't be swapped out, and other angles of attack. ... (Developers familiar with swap-locked memory: I'd appreciate at least a short explanation of how it

Re: [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

2007-05-05 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Werner Koch wrote: [...] Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It is originally based on code used by GnuPG. It does not provide any implementaion of OpenPGP or other protocols. Thorough understanding of applied cryptography is required to use libgcrypt.

Re: GnuPG::Interface

2007-04-23 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Linda Jen wrote: I am new to this list and to GnuPG. so am I I get the following messages in my apache server log: [Fri Apr 20 14:10:45 2007] [error] [client 852.12.22.138] gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir //.gnupg, referer: This is actually a warning. Do ls

unable to verify mail messages as signed files

2007-04-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Hi, I've installed a tool to verify signed mail, enigmail, that signals lots of bad signatures, using gpg. When I verified those messages manually they were all ok. Disagreement happens after the tool combines text and signature into a unique file. I reproduced it as follows: D:\tmpgpg