Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/17/2017 09:46 PM, si...@web.de wrote: > Am 17.02.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: >> On 02/17/2017 07:17 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> >> That change would also be consistent with >>

Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread sivmu
Am 17.02.2017 um 20:43 schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: > On 02/17/2017 07:17 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> On 02/17/2017 07:00 PM, si...@web.de wrote: >>> keyserver hkps://jirk5u4osbsr34t5.onion >>> keyserver hkps://keys.gnupg.net >>> >>> would solve this I guess. >> >> No, that'd result in

Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/17/2017 07:17 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 02/17/2017 07:00 PM, si...@web.de wrote: >> keyserver hkps://jirk5u4osbsr34t5.onion >> keyserver hkps://keys.gnupg.net >> >> would solve this I guess. > > No, that'd result in certificate errors and non-responsive servers > That said,

Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/17/2017 07:00 PM, si...@web.de wrote: > keyserver hkps://jirk5u4osbsr34t5.onion > keyserver hkps://keys.gnupg.net > > would solve this I guess. No, that'd result in certificate errors and non-responsive servers -- Kristian Fiskerstrand Blog:

Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread sivmu
Am 17.02.2017 um 17:31 schrieb Kristian Fiskerstrand: > On 02/17/2017 01:37 PM, si...@web.de wrote: >> Is there something I missed or is this unintended? > > gnupg does not ship an installed dirmngr.conf, when no keyserver is > specified it defaults to hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net, the >

Re: Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 02/17/2017 01:37 PM, si...@web.de wrote: > Is there something I missed or is this unintended? gnupg does not ship an installed dirmngr.conf, when no keyserver is specified it defaults to hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net, the existence of a (I presume) arch installed dirmngr.conf changes

Download of public keys

2017-02-17 Thread sivmu
Some time ago I asked about the unencrypted download of public keys. The answer was that the current gnupg does use https by default to fetch the keys. I found the time to retest this on a new setup and found that gnupg 2.1.18 still uses http connections to fetch the keys. I uses a newly

Re: Unecrypted download of public keys

2017-02-04 Thread sivmu
Am 04.02.2017 um 23:27 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > On Sat 2017-02-04 15:14:50 -0500, sivmu wrote: >> I suppose this config did not change after upgrading from 2.1.17. >> Just tested it on 2.1.18 using arch and it still uses http on my setup. > > it's not a config change -- it's a defaults

Re: Unecrypted download of public keys

2017-02-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2017-02-04 15:14:50 -0500, sivmu wrote: > I suppose this config did not change after upgrading from 2.1.17. > Just tested it on 2.1.18 using arch and it still uses http on my setup. it's not a config change -- it's a defaults change. in the old arrangement, if you didn't specify a

Re: Unecrypted download of public keys

2017-02-04 Thread sivmu
Am 04.02.2017 um 08:18 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > On Sat 2017-02-04 01:33:56 -0500, sivmu wrote: >> When using --revc-key or the gpa frontend, I noticed that the >> target public keys are still downloded using unencrypted http. While the >> trnasmitted information is generally public, it

Re: Unecrypted download of public keys

2017-02-03 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sat 2017-02-04 01:33:56 -0500, sivmu wrote: > When using --revc-key or the gpa frontend, I noticed that the > target public keys are still downloded using unencrypted http. While the > trnasmitted information is generally public, it doesmake things pretty > easy for an adversary to collect

Unecrypted download of public keys

2017-02-03 Thread sivmu
When using --revc-key or the gpa frontend, I noticed that the target public keys are still downloded using unencrypted http. While the trnasmitted information is generally public, it doesmake things pretty easy for an adversary to collect metadata such as your contacts. This is expecially