Re: New packet format for OpenPGP

2021-02-27 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:14, jsmith9810--- said: > I noticed that GnuPG (I'm using v2.2.19) still uses the old format > OpenPGP packets, when I export my keys, for example. That is perfectly fine - no need to chnage this. > Also, is it possible to use a private keyring (secring.gpg) for >

Re: gpg: error retrieving 'er...@eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

2021-02-24 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 20:59, Erich Eckner said: > Thank you for your time! For everyone to benefit from my problem, I'd like > to suggest to clarify in the documentation, that and how tor will be I'll change the option description to: --use-tor --no-use-tor The option --use-tor switches

Re: gpg --card-status fails with Yubikey 5 under MSYS2

2021-02-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:47, Doug Richardson said: > Under MSYS2, gpg --card-status fails with the following when trying to GnuPG is not intended to be build under MSYS. You need to cross-build from a real POSIX system using mingw. All other ways to build it are not supported and are strongly

Re: export-filter question or bug

2021-02-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 13:37, Erich Eckner said: > What am I doing wrong? Or is there something special about this key? Nothing. It is an interesting case. Let's have a look at key exported without any options (listing slightly edited): $ gpg --show-keys --with-sig-check c.pub pub rsa4096

Re: pinentry will not ask me for passphrase

2021-02-17 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
nentry is 1.1.1, released a few weeks ago. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- g10 Code GmbH https://g10code.com AmtsGer. Wuppertal HRB 14459 Hüttenstr. 61 Geschäftsführung Werner Koch D-40699 Erkrath -=- The GnuPG Experts -=- USt-Id DE215605608 signature.asc Descr

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.9.2 relased

2021-02-17 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expired: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A 33BD 3F06 NIIBE Yutaka (GnuPG Release Key) rsa3072 2017-03-17 [expires: 2027-03-15] Key fingerprint = 5B80 C575 4298

Re: export-filter question or bug

2021-02-12 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:44, Erich Eckner said: > $GPG --export --export-filter keep-uid="mbox = $mbox" $fpr gpg-wks-client does something similar but using "uid =" with a pre-checked UID in an import filter. It also uses import-options=import-export to process the keyblock without actually

Re: Keyservers

2021-02-04 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 09:34, n...@copblock.app said: > I would like to bring up my own keyserver for my company, which would > contain only those keys which have been signed by one or more authorized > people. I would suggest to use LDAP - best OpenLDAP or Active Directory. See

Re: How to report issues and suggest changes to the Web Key Directory specification [was: Re: Please tackle the Right Thing]

2021-01-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:35, Daniel Kahn Gillmor said: > Maybe Werner can clarify what place he'd prefer and we can consolidate > the issue tracking there. Please send patches to gnupg-devel or if you need a bug tracker, use dev.gnupg.org with the wkd tag/project. Shalom-Salam, Werner --

Re: gpg cards

2021-01-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
> ahead and copied the very same keys from the backup to the second. But > trying to actually use does not work, I get an error like: 'please > insert card: […]' So. > > What can I do to make gpg use the card as well (if possible) ? You see the prompt because gpg knows that you aready used the

[Announce] [Security fix] Libgcrypt 1.9.1 relased

2021-01-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] Key fingerprint = 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerpr

[Announce] [urgent] Stop using Libgcrypt 1.9.0 !

2021-01-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! A severe bug was reported yesterday evening against Libgcrypt 1.9.0 which we released last week. A new version to fix this as weel as a couple of build problems will be released today. In the meantime please stop using 1.9.0. It seems that Fedora 34 and Gentoo are already using 1.9.0 .

Re: libgcrypt selftest failed

2021-01-28 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:51, Christopher Mansfield said: > libgcrypt selftest: kdf (34): Selftest failed Please see the comments at https://dev.gnupg.org/T4294 which lists known bugs and fixes. In your case it is T5254 . We have fixed a couple of bugs this week and even if tehre are still some

Re: RSS/Atom for the GnuPG blog?

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:00, Phil Pennock said: > That feed is subscribed to: > > https://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg-doc.git;a=rss;f=web/index.org Interesting. And I thought this repos is something nobody watches - so sorry for possibly not too polite log comments. BTW, if you

[admin] user set to moderation (was: Fundraising)

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 07:08, Stefan Claas said: > #deplatforming does not work in a free world! I told you to behave civilized and not like that guy most US people are glad not to be anymore represented by him. I will set you to moderation for two weeks. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- * Free

Re: gpg: error retrieving 'er...@eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:24, Erich Eckner said: > Box 1: tor (but no DNS endpoint exposed), named listening on 127.0.0.1:53 > (used by /etc/resolv.conf) In Tor mode we use 8.8.8.8 as DNS Server unless you use --nameserver ipaddr In ``Tor mode'' Dirmngr uses a public resolver via Tor to

Re: RSS/Atom for the GnuPG blog?

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:25, Vladimir Nikishkin said: > But there seems to be no way to subscribe to it via standard Atom/RSS > feed. > Is this intentional? Or maybe I just haven't found the links? I have simply not yet come around to implement it. I got some code but iirc, I was not sure whether

Re: gpg: error retrieving 'er...@eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:05, Erich Eckner said: > 2021-01-21 14:41:32 dirmngr[3623955.6] DBG: dns: libdns initialized (tor mode) > 2021-01-21 14:41:32 dirmngr[3623955.6] DBG: dns: Your are using Tor for DNS queries, that is the actual DNS server is 8.8.8.8. Tor mode is used if you are running the

Re: ctf-like WKD challenge

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 10:48, Andrew Gallagher said: > It is important to remember what PGP is for, and what it is not > for. It is most definitely NOT for hiding metadata. No system based on > email can ever do that, so it is safer not to pretend otherwise. Full Ack. There are ways to hide meat

Re: Fundraising

2021-01-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 05:26, Stefan Claas said: > I really like how you try to paint a picture of me. But everybody knows > what kind of character you are. Stefan: Stop such personal insults. I am pretty sure that there are quite some folks here who would like to get personal too but don't do

Re: gpg: error retrieving 'er...@eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

2021-01-20 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:46, Erich Eckner said: > is queried. This resolves to some old address (my DNS configuration > error), which serves the wrong content. Is it right, that this SRV record > should be queried? Should I update it or remove it? Yes, the SRV record is used if there is no

Re: Please tackle the Right Thing

2021-01-20 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:31, Stefan Claas said: > there exists also a direct-method in you current draft, which people like > to use, when low on budged or which like to avoid, for whatever privacy If you do some research on the infrastructure of large providers (which includes talking to them)

Re: gpg: error retrieving 'er...@eckner.net' via WKD: Connection closed in DNS

2021-01-20 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:24, Erich Eckner said: > error in the subject when doing `gpg - --locate-external-keys Many -v don't really help here because the actual task is done by the dirmngr process. Thus to debug this put log-file /somewhere/dirmngr.log verbose debug ipc,network,dns

Re: libgcrypt-1.9.0: 32 bit cross build fails on asm code

2021-01-20 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! thanks for the report. I opened a ticket for this: https://dev.gnupg.org/T5257 Please check over there for status updates. (I accidently mentioned gnupg-users in the annoucement mail and not gcryypt-devel which would been the right one). Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.9.0 relased

2021-01-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
our keys: ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] Key fingerprint = 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A 33BD 3F06 NIIBE Yutaka (GnuPG Rele

Re: WKD proper behavior on fetch error

2021-01-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 09:28, Neal H. Walfield said: > When you look up the openpgpkey.example.org domain, you are revealing > to anyone snooping DNS traffic that you are using OpenPGP and are > looking for a key related to example.org. That's a privacy issue. No, it isn't. The next thing you do

Re: Fundraising

2021-01-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:29, Lars Noodén said: > Yes, but that did not stop the bank's payment web interface from > requiring the name and address for payments to other countries. For Okay, I added our address to the SEPA page. Thanks. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei.

Please tackle the Right Thing (was: WKD Checker)

2021-01-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Stefan, It has been mentioned several time here that the use of the openpgpkey sub-domain is required to allow implementation of the Web Key Directory in browsers. This is a real world use case and pretty important for web mailers like protonmail. I would suggest that you put your energy on a

Re: WKD proper behavior on fetch error

2021-01-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 10:11, raf said: > And it's discovery that begins with an email address. I > still can't work out what functionality WKD provides in > a situation that isn't email-related. The Web Key Directory maps mail addresses to a key. Mail addresses are universal identifiers and thus

Re: Fundraising

2021-01-18 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:16, Lars Noodén said: > Euro Payments Area credit transfers [1] ought to have the address [2] > as the address is required when making payments to other countries > within the Union. The idea of SEPA is that the account number is sufficient; even the BIC is not anymore

Re: Why is there a conflict?

2021-01-18 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 15:43, Ayoub Misherghi said: > a@b:c$ gpg -s -e -b -r Mike data.file > > gpg: conflicting commands You can use the combined method of signing (-s) and encryption (-e) with a detached signatures (-b). Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt

Re: WKD proper behavior on fetch error

2021-01-14 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 01:47, Ángel said: > I understand this to mean it as "only use the direct method if the > required sub-domain does not exist", with the SHOULD meaning that the > direct method is not required (not sure why, I would have probably used Right. The subdomain is actually a

Re: Reiner-SCT CyberJack secoder 2 (v2.2.0 USB 0c4b:0400)

2021-01-11 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:36, Daniel Pocock said: > Reiner SCT cyberJack secoder 2 Recycle the hardware for other purposes - it is too hard to make this crap work. Reiner is notorious for not releasing specs and basing their stuff on proprietary extensions. Think Nvidea for card readers.

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.27 released

2021-01-11 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
24 [expires: 2030-06-30] Key fingerprint = 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A 33BD 3F06 NIIBE Yutaka (GnuPG Release Key) rsa3072 2017-03-

Re: Export private key

2021-01-06 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 14:14, Dino Edwards said: > Something changed in the code and it now prompts me for the key > password before it proceeds. I see the value in this, however this is Yes, since version 2.1. The reasons is that the internal store for the private key uses a more modern way of

Re: On future of GnuPG

2021-01-06 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:07, Robert J. Hansen said: > I'm doing is sharing true things with my buddy?" Whereas in Europe, > right-to-be-forgotten laws, enforced by the government, are seen as > wins for privacy, in America they would be (a) blatantly unlawful and I don't think that the right not

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-06 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 16:46, Stefan Claas said: > Not sure I understand you correctly, but why are then SKS key servers > still in operation, which allows third parties to look up who signed > who's key and with what trust level and GnuPG's WoT support, compared Because that is the base of the WoT

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 09:46, Robert J. Hansen said: > Strangely, the Linux kernel folks still use it a decent amount. There are indeed use cases for the WoT; in particular if you don't known your co-worker. However, in commerical or private settings the communication patterns are different from

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-05 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 07:27, Jean-David Beyer said: > Building a web of trust is so hopeless, from my point of view, that I > have abandonned gnupg. I have made keys for myself, obtained enigmail Virtually nobody uses the WoT. What people use are direct key signatures. That is you verify a key's

Re: Precompiled Windows-Binaries with Large-Secmem-Support

2021-01-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
> I merely asked why the official Windows binaries (at least those > inGPG4Win) are not compiled with the already existing option > "enable-large-secmem", which would allow keys up to 8192bit in batch That option has only been introduced to satisfy the needs of a few nerds and for helping with

Re: Unlock smartcard PIN without decrypting a file

2020-12-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:13, Journeyman said: > that SCD commands do not require the PIN. The PIN is passed to the card and processed by the card. Thus the card decides on whether an operation needs a PIN. Usually the PIN is required only once and valid until the card is powered down (e.g.

Re: How Do I Overwrite Files in GnuPG?

2020-12-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
> This is one of gpg’s little UI idiosyncrasies. '—batch', '—yes' > etc. must come before actions such as '—encrypt' on the command line. That is actually classic Unix behaviour (in contrast to GNU's way of processing options): First the options and then the arguments. Shalom-Salam, Werner

Re: Does GPG Ever Store RSA Secret Keys On The Disk In Plain?

2020-12-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:47, Novak Boškov said: > So, the two subsequent exports are supposed to give me my private key > encrypted with two different AES keys (same passphrase + a different salt)? Right: First packet of the first export: # off=0 ctb=95 tag=5 hlen=3 plen=1414 :secret key packet:

Re: Does GPG Ever Store RSA Secret Keys On The Disk In Plain?

2020-12-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:12, Novak Boškov said: > First, it looks like multiple exports _do_ result in the exactly same > export data: What version of GnuPG are you using? A legacy 1.4 version or, worse, the unmaintained 2.0 version? Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei.

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.26 released

2020-12-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
signed by one or more of these four keys: ed25519 2020-08-24 [expires: 2030-06-30] Key fingerprint = 6DAA 6E64 A76D 2840 571B 4902 5288 97B8 2640 3ADA Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A 33BD

Re: Does GPG Ever Store RSA Secret Keys On The Disk In Plain?

2020-12-19 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:54, Annie Yousar said: > The key is not encrypted with the passphrase, but with a secret key > derived (by S2K) from the passphrase with the help of a > salt. Therefore each export gives different export data, despite using > the same passphrase. That is because GnuPG

Re: Decrypting fails unless card status

2020-12-15 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:13, Felix E. Klee said: > *Any idea how to get `gpg` back to normal?* Update to GnuPG 2.2.25 (See the comments at https://dev.gnupg.org/T5052) Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Protecting your private key - passphrase

2020-12-14 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! Let me also add that the private key protection mechanism of OpenPGP does not work like we would do it these days. Thus my suggestion has always been: If you need to convey a private key over a public channel do not rely on the passphrase protection [1] but wrap the backuped key in a proper

Re: [Keyserver] Hockeypuck 2.1.0 released

2020-12-11 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:07, Casey Marshall said: >- Authenticated key management. This adds a couple of extra endpoints >which allow a key owner to replace and delete their key, authenticated by >signing the armored key in the request. This allows a key owner to still >update their

Re: “Hardware problem” with OpenPGP smart card

2020-12-08 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 23:37, Nicolas Boullis said: > Hence, I think my card is really dead. yeah :-( > I see that the card includes a signature counter (which reads 89), hence > I understand the card has to write the EEPROM (to update the counter) Yes, this one reason to write to the EEPROM.

Re: Security-Token: "No secret key" unless "gpg --card-status" first

2020-12-08 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 10:03, Patrick Ben Koetter said: > $ gpg: Entschlüsselung fehlgeschlagen: Kein geheimer Schlüssel (gpg: decryption failed: No secret key) > $ gpg --version > gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.24 Please update to 2.2.25 because of * scd: Fix regression in 2.2.24 requiring gpg --card-status

Re: “Hardware problem” with OpenPGP smart card

2020-12-07 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 13:43, John Scott said: >> PIN retry counter : 2 0 3 > It looks like you're trying to decrypt a file and your encryption PIN counter > is zero. I wonder why it was giving you the strange error message. No, it is not at zero. Since OpenPGP card specification version 2 we

Re: “Hardware problem” with OpenPGP smart card

2020-12-06 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 15:20, Nicolas Boullis said: > gpg: public key decryption failed: Hardware problem > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key To make sure that this is really the card (or reader), I'd like to ask you to put --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: Question about key verification with GnuPG 2.2.25

2020-12-06 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 12:12, gnupgpacker said: > How to identify / correct affected keys? As usual add --verose to the gpg invocation. This might give some more information. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description:

Re: Verifying and checksumming new release is somewhat cumbersom

2020-12-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 07:50, john doe said: > Is the release workflow documented somewhere so a non-dev could look to > implement this ? https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding feel free to extend this page if you have remarks. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen

Re: Odd error

2020-12-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:20, Werner Koch said: > I'll build with the Fedora patches in the next days. If the missing > curves are really the reason, we can fix that. Yes, the disabled Brainpool curves lead to the import problem. I'll see what we can do. See https://dev.gnupg.org/T5162

Re: Odd error

2020-11-30 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! I looked at the Fedora Libgcrypt source and noticed that they ship libgcrypt with the nistp192 and all brainpool curves removed. I have not yet build this version but given that one of your keys has brainpool curves this might be the culprit. I can understand that they remove nistp192 for

Re: Odd error

2020-11-30 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:25, Robert J. Hansen said: > I'll send the keyring onto you privately. Thanks. Unfortunately i was not able to replicate the bug on my Devuan box. I tried using the same Libgcrypt version but with some libraries different. Should not matter, though. > * Libgcrypt 1.8.7

Re: Odd error

2020-11-30 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:16, Robert J. Hansen said: > gpg: kbx: error computing keygrip > gpg: error writing keyring '/home/rjh/.gnupg/pubring.kbx': General error The first one is the real error. We can't compute the keygrip for the public key. If you can build gpg yourself please apply

Re: Verifying and checksumming new release is somewhat cumbersom

2020-11-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 07:57, john doe said: > If I look at Debian (1) for example, the checksum file is gpg signed. > Assuming that I understand correctly, the Debian approach is not a safe > way to make the checksums available?propagate? No, that is a safe way. Having a separate file with

Re: Changing compression configuration

2020-11-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 01:00, Karmanyaah Malhotra said: > instead of just regular bzip2 when compressing files. I'm not sure if bzip2 is part of the OpenPGP specs and it is very unlikely that we will ever add another compression algo. In fact adding bzip2 was already a bad idea. > compression

Re: caching of passphrase is not working in windows , gpg agent version 2.2.23

2020-11-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:18, surender singh pawar said: > 4. from powershell started agent > > "$gpgPath\bin\gpg-connect-agent.exe" reloadagent /bye Why do you do this? The import operation already started the agent. In any case to explicitly start the agent please use gpgconf --launch

Re: Thunderbird / Enigmail / Autocrypt

2020-11-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:03, gnupgpacker said: > After further investigation about html mailing with Claws Mail: > 'Dillo HTML viewer' project has been updated Jun-2015, not available for > Windows. Mature software does not always need updates. Nevertheless the plugin code was recently updated

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.25 released

2020-11-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2021-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig)

Re: Thunderbird / Enigmail / Autocrypt

2020-11-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 10:02, gnupgpacker said: > Claws Mail is an useful alternative, but please keep aware it does not > support html mail, text only! > https://www.claws-mail.org/manual/de/claws-mail-manual.html#AEN955 Just load one of the HTML viewer plugins. Note that most plugins are an

Re: Thunderbird / Enigmail / Autocrypt

2020-11-23 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:22, cqcallaw said: > At my job, I frequently send out summary charts and graphs surrounded by text. > Attachments simply do not work; my audience cannot spend the mental energy to Proper MUAs display inline images without problems. I recall that even exmh did this ~25

Re: Thunderbird / Enigmail / Autocrypt

2020-11-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:23, Daniel Bossert said: > How secure is it to use Thundebrird with Autocrypt? I use Sylpheed at > the moment, but it is not that comfortable to use as Thunderbird. Checkout Claws-mail which was forked from Sylpheed many years ago. The OpenPGP and S/MIME integration of

Re: Signing decentralized websites

2020-11-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:13, cqcallaw said: > change the behavior. Is there some implementation issue with running > multiple gpg signing operations in parallel? This is all serialized because the gpg-agent does the actual signing. There is one gpg-agent per GNUPGHOME. Thus the easiest solution

Re: GPG Encryption/Decryption Failing

2020-11-20 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 11:51, Sirisha Gopigiri said: > But after debugging a little we found that we are running into this > issue only if we use gpg 2.2.4 version. We tested the same code with You are really using a 3 year old version which was followed by 20 more releases. You also missed 2.2.8

Re: How to change the protect cipher algorithm and the digest algorithm of the secret key?

2020-11-17 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:28, Gao Xiaohui said: > conf.conf". At present, the "--s2k-count" option can be used in both > gpg.exe and gpg-agent.exe.Thank you. In gpg.conf this is used for deriving a passphrase for symmetric encryption. In gpg-agent.conf it is used to override the calibrated

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.24 released

2020-11-17 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
tampered by malicious entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2021-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869

Re: Major problems with gpg and scdaemon, help highly appriciated

2020-11-16 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:28, 22h39 said: > The problem lies in Pinentry which for some reason can't hande ccid > pin requests on the contactless interface, after this fix the Which reader and which ccid driver are you using? I assume that you are running pcscd, right? Salam-Shalom, Werner

Re: Major problems with gpg and scdaemon, help highly appriciated

2020-11-14 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:22, Juergen Bruckner said: > As far as I know the OpenPGP function of the OpenPGP-Card cannot be > used via NFC / RFID. You need to use the on card chip and a card In fact GnuPG does not support secure messaging and thus using the contactless interface iwould be a security

Re: How to change the protect cipher algorithm and the digest algorithm of the secret key?

2020-11-13 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:27, A NiceBoy said: > 1. The solution is also in this report. Just install gpg version 2.0.x, Don't! 2.0 reached end-of-life 3 years ago - there are no security fixes etc. You shall not use that version anymore. > Then you can see the algo changed to AES256 and digest

Re: Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-11-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
1b4049695 Author: Werner Koch Date: Mon Nov 2 13:39:58 2020 +0100 gpg: Do not use weak digest algos if selected by recipient prefs. * g10/misc.c (is_weak_digest): New. (print_digest_algo_note): Use it here. * g10/sig-check.c (check_signature_end_simple): Use it. * g

Re: Seeking help.

2020-10-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 18:59, Mike said: > I had to recover gnupg file from a corrupted os. The contents of the gnupg > file are encrypted and are not in openpgp data. So when I try to import my > keys from 'private-keys-v1.d' nothing happens. Output says no openpgp data > found and 0 items

Re: Dealing with duplicate keys

2020-10-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 23:52, Ludovic Courtès said: > For some reason (perhaps a bug in a previous version of GnuPG I used > long ago?), my public key ring had come to contain my own public key > twice, with the same fingerprint and all. Should not happen because we use on Unix a

Re: Why is Blowfish's key size limited to 128 bits in RFC 4880?

2020-10-11 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 03:00, Dieter Frye said: > I've been using Blowfish on older machines for years now without issue and > I always wondered if this is one of those things that could possibly > benefit from an update. Nope. I used Blowfish back then because it was the only free and modern

Re: No single-page manual on gnupg.org

2020-10-07 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 03:02, Dmitry Alexandrov said: > it would really help those, who do not use Emacs (itʼs odd, but there > are such people!), if there would be single-page version of the manual > (makeinfo --html --no-split ...) — just like all software on gnu.org Please use the PDF version

Re: gpg bug

2020-10-04 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 18:28, Werner Koch said: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:21, Brian L. Matthews said: > >> $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gnu >> $ make >> >> successfully. However, on make check I found that it doesn't work if I >> have a space in PATH. I do

Re: gpg bug

2020-10-04 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:21, Brian L. Matthews said: > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/gnu > $ make > > successfully. However, on make check I found that it doesn't work if I > have a space in PATH. I do because VMWare Fusion adds Sure. That can't work. You need to quote the envvar: ./configure

Re: agent refused operation when using GnuPG key for ssh

2020-09-29 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 23:54, Pankaj Jangid said: > debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: signing using rsa-sha2-512 > sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused operation Algorithm looks okay. You need to look at the gpg-agent log. Put log-file /somewhere/gpg-agent.log verbose into

Re: Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:58, Andrew Engelbrecht said: > private keys, and were merely left behind. If there is a way to check > the fingerprint of the keys they belong to, and to import them, that > would be super helpful. Is there a way to do that? Unfortunately this is not instantly possible

Re: how to suppress new "insecure passphrase" warning

2020-09-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:27, Alan Bram said: > configuration, there was an already-running agent that I had to kill first > in order to get it to reread the config. Just for the reecords: gpgconf --reload gpg-agent would have been sufficent but "gpgconf --kill gpg-agent: works of course also.

Re: how to suppress new "insecure passphrase" warning

2020-09-17 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 15:03, Alan Bram said: > I have been using gnupg for a few years now, with no change in the way I > invoke it. Recently (I guess my package manager updated to a new version: > 2.2.23) it started injecting a warning about "insecure passphrase" and > suggesting that I ought to

Re: private-keys-v1.d and preserve-permissions

2020-09-10 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:34, Martin Pätzold said: > the keys, therefore we had to extend the permissions for the > "private-keys-v1.d" directory to group access. I see. Just a hint: You may use the remote socket feature to run gpg-agent under a different account. It might take a bit of effort to

Re: private-keys-v1.d and preserve-permissions

2020-09-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 19:37, Werner Koch said: > I looked at the history and the reason for the described behaviour is > documented at https://dev.gnupg.org/T2312. I re-opened that bug. Fixed in master and 2.2 see the ticket above for the patch. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanke

Re: private-keys-v1.d and preserve-permissions

2020-09-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi, I looked at the history and the reason for the described behaviour is documented at https://dev.gnupg.org/T2312. I re-opened that bug. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: private-keys-v1.d and preserve-permissions

2020-09-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 9 Sep 2020 15:22, Martin Pätzold said: > And if the setting is not what I need, how can I prevent the > permissions for "private-keys-v1.d" from changing? The --preserve-permissions is a gpg option and not one of gpg-agent. In fact gpg does not known anything about private-keys-v1.d.

Re: How to migrate my key from card to file?

2020-09-07 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 01:24, Olav Seyfarth said: > private_stub.gpg, pubkey.gpg and sk_xxx.gpg. The pubkey and the sk_KEYID.gpg is all you need but unfortunately there is no tool support to create a file from it. It would require a little bit of hacking to do this with the current code base. The

[Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 2.2.23 released

2020-09-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
ys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2021-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint =

Re: gnupg --fetch-key problems

2020-09-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 1 Sep 2020 14:27, Björn Jacke said: > I talked with Wiktor about the http 1.0 issue in gpg and he also > mentioned that a number of weird problems that people have reported with > WKD in the past might be related to gpg talking http 1.0 only. And what are with those servers which don't

Re: gnupg --fetch-key problems

2020-09-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 02:48, Ángel said: > HTTP/1.1 would require support for things that currently may not be > present, such as chunked transfer encodings, whereas HTTP/1.0 is That is for the server site but not for the client. IIRC, the only mandatory request header for a client has is

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.2.22 released

2020-08-31 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! As a workaround please run --gpg --card-status after plugging in a Gnuk token. We are working on a fix; see https://dev.gnupg.org/T5039 Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Brace yourself: User-friendly but broken OpenPGP is here

2020-08-30 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 00:50, Johan Wevers said: > Sorry, I see from Vincent's mail that GnuPG already does this but it > might be the keycard that is causing this. Right, smartcards are pretty strict in what they accept as input. Thus you can't use certain keys on a smartcard for different

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.2.22 released

2020-08-30 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:39, mlnl said: > For Claws i had compiled and installed gpgme-1.12.1. I'm using a Yubikey > for key storage & usage. Works flawless with GnuPG 2.2.21. Please run this command: gpg-connect-agent 'scd getinfo version' /bye and check that the returned version is 2.2.22.

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.22 released

2020-08-27 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
ent releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2021-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2020-10-30] Key fingerprint = 031E C253 6E58 0D8E A286 A9F2 2071 B08A

Re: Unknown key in gpg-agent

2020-08-26 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! it works for me: $ ~/b/gnupg-2.2/g10/gpg -k \ gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION! gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys! pub rsa4096 2011-05-16 [C] [expires: 2050-12-31]

Re: Why does gpg -k write to tofu.db?

2020-08-25 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:56, Brian Minton said: > Why does gpg -k need to write to the tofu db? I should mention that gpg > is running at 100% cpu in the R state. Before starting the gpg -k I was not able to replicate it but I must say that I don't have a large useful tofu.db. AFAICS, gpg

Re: Unknown key in gpg-agent

2020-08-25 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
s and should NOT be gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys! pub ed25519 2020-08-24 [SC] [expires: 2030-06-30] 6DAA6E64A76D2840571B4902528897B826403ADA uid [ultimate] Werner Koch (dist signing 2020) using my development version of 2.2 but I

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