Re: was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I've often wondered why the sks software didn't require > cross-certification. It seems like that would solve the key poisoning > issue. Not enough OCaml programmers, mostly. Strange but true: SKS has no crypto code in it anywhere. So the moment you say "I wonder why SKS doesn't do this

Re: was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-14 Thread Brian Minton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I've often wondered why the sks software didn't require cross-certification. It seems like that would solve the key poisoning issue. It would mean that when signing someone's key, you'd have to have a way to exchange the signatures first, before

Re: was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-13 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 8/13/2019 at 7:59 AM, "Kristian Fiskerstrand" wrote: >As you correctly point out its really not that relevant for >encryption >subkeys. It does have security implementations for signing >subkeys; see >[cross-certification section] for some details on that. > >References:

Re: was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-13 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 13/08/2019 13:56, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > As you correctly point out its really not that relevant for encryption > subkeys. It does have security implementations for signing subkeys; see > [cross-certification section] for some details on that. But this issue has been fixed for so long

Re: was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-13 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
On 12.08.2019 19:09, vedaal via Gnupg-users wrote: > Can this really be done? > > (Does not matter so much to me personally, as I grew up with v3 > keys, and even when using a V4 key, I don't generate a subkey, but > allow all the functions (sign, encrypt. certify) to be done with the > master

was Re: PGP Key Poisoner // now "Binding one person's subkey to another person's primary key"

2019-08-12 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
On 8/12/2019 at 7:28 AM, "Juergen Bruckner via Gnupg-users" wrote: >Am 11.08.19 um 23:47 schrieb Anonymous Remailer (austria): >> >> https://github.com/skeeto/pgp-poisoner = Here is a quote from the above site: =[ begin quoted material ]= As far as keyserver weaknesses go,