Re: Multiple email addresses - any alternative to ask everyone to sign all my keys?

2013-07-25 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 7/25/2013 2:05 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote: The listserver should deliver the listmail with a reply-to header which points back to the list. I do that manually to avoid that simply hitting the reply-button sends mail directly to the sender, and not to the list. In procmail, something like that will

[Announce] [security fix] Libgcrypt 1.5.3 released

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! I am pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt version 1.5.3. This is a *security fix* release for the stable branch. Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It is originally based on code used by GnuPG. It does not provide any implementation of

[Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 1.4.14 released

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-1 release: Version 1.4.14. This is a *security fix* release and all users of GnuPG 2.0 are advised to updated to this version. See below for the impact of the problem. For users of GnuPG = 2.0 a new version of

Re: Multiple email addresses - any alternative to ask everyone to sign all my keys?

2013-07-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 24 July 2013 at 5:09:13 PM, in mid:20130724160913.gc27...@pvv.ntnu.no, Einar Ryeng wrote: it is primarily the _person_ I trust, not e.g. his employer Assuming you mean the everyday usage rather than the OpenPGP-specific

Re: Multiple email addresses - any alternative to ask everyone to sign all my keys?

2013-07-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 24 July 2013 at 10:33:18 AM, in mid:51ef9f5e.7030...@spth.de, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: I just want multiple security levels: Decrypt mail addressed to the university address, but not mail addressed to my private address on

Re: gpg-agent, authentication key, and ssh

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 06:34, m...@0x01b.net said: As I understand it, I can create an authentication subkey and use some utility to convert that to an ssh key. If this conversion is possible, then why can't the gpg-agent consider private auth (sub)keys along with ssh keys loaded via the

Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-25 Thread takethebus
Hi everybody, on http://www.gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.en.html SHA1 sums of gnupg software are published and it is said: To be sure that this page has not been tampered, you may want to compare the list below with the one included in the announcement mail posted to several mailing

Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread takethebus
Hi everybody, why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, why should I trust gunpg? I'm a windows user. Thanks for any answers,

GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Manu García
Hi. I'm not a member of this list, but have read an article that I'd like to share, and put into your knowledge (if you don't know it already) because I think is rather important. In said article, about security in the Cloud you can read this: «Michael Bailey, a computer security researcher at

Re: [Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 1.4.14 released

2013-07-25 Thread Charly Avital
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Werner Koch wrote on 7/25/13 6:26 AM: Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-1 release: Version 1.4.14. This is a *security fix* release and all users of GnuPG 2.0 are advised to updated to this version. See

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 07/25/2013 08:59 AM, Manu García wrote: Are devs taking some measures to make GPG really secure? I am not an encryption expert, but if I were going to store a lot of stuff in the cloud, I would not use GPG or any other public (assymetric) key encryption system. I would use a simpler symmetric

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread atair
On 7/25/13, takethe...@gmx.de takethe...@gmx.de wrote: Hi everybody, why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, why should I

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread mirimir
On 07/25/2013 12:59 PM, Manu García wrote: Hi. I'm not a member of this list, but have read an article that I'd like to share, and put into your knowledge (if you don't know it already) because I think is rather important. In said article, about security in the Cloud you can read this:

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Thomas Harning Jr.
I believe the issue here is that if you are running inside a virtual machine, information can leak between VMs and the VM host about certain CPU flags/etc. This can lead to the ability to steal data. In general GnuPG is pretty secure and does a good job at keeping data protected even if an

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: atair atai...@googlemail.com Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:17:43 + atair wrote: ... Therefore, changes that look like back doors are VERY unlikely to find their way in a release, because hundreds of people are looking how the software evolves and will

Re: GPG weakness

2013-07-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 7/25/2013 8:59 AM, Manu García wrote: I'm not a member of this list, but have read an article that I'd like to share, and put into your knowledge (if you don't know it already) because I think is rather important. It is not very important, to be honest, but we still thank you for bringing

--batch --gen-key error with Key-Type: default

2013-07-25 Thread Mikael MMN-o Nordfeldth
Hi list, when I try to generate a key in batch mode, I get an error whenever Key-Type and Subkey-Type is default. I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if this is a bug. There is no problem when I replace the value default with a proper algorithm name (such as RSA). This is the command

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 7/25/2013 3:34 PM, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: why should I trust gpg4win? It's been years -- 25 years or more -- since I've read Victor Milan's The Cybernetic Samurai. I only remember one scene from the novel, but it's a scene of such vividness that it's been permanently burned into my brain.

Re: PEBKAC (was GPG weakness)

2013-07-25 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/25/2013 12:59 PM, Manu García wrote: Hi. I'm not a member of this list, but have read an article that I'd like to share, and put into your knowledge (if you don't know it already) because I think is rather important. In said article, about security in the Cloud you can read this:

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Do 25.07.2013, 18:31:17 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: Why should you trust GPG4WIN? Beats me. That's on you. No. That is a question that can easily be answered by the public (in both directions) and already has been answered here. Not the why is up to him but the final whether is. :-)

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:34, takethe...@gmx.de said: why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, If you are interested in my take on

Re: Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:33, takethe...@gmx.de said: Which mailing lists are meant? Can't emails be tempered, too? If I've The GnuPG mailing list and all the mailing list archives. If an attacker would modify the archive on the gnupg.org server, he would also need to change the independent

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Atom Smasher
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt f?r Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, why should I trust gunpg? I'm a windows

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 07/25/2013 07:34 PM, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: Hi everybody, why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, why should I trust

Re: GPG keys for multiple email accounts

2013-07-25 Thread atair
This topic is not yet solved for me, sorry for the long inactivity... I tried the following approach which is inspired by the debian hints [1][2]. [1] http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html [2] http://wiki.debian.org/subkeys # preparing clean environment for testing $ mkdir

Clearsign text document with multiple keys?

2013-07-25 Thread adrelanos
Hi, can a plain text document be clear signed by multiple keys at the same time? (Hold by different people.) One can create a plain text file a, clear sign it and get a.asc. Another one can clear sign a.asc and get a.asc.asc. One who wants to verify it, can first verify the signature of the

Re: Why trust gpg4win?

2013-07-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 7/25/2013 3:34 PM, takethe...@gmx.de wrote: why should I trust gpg4win? I have doubts since it was ordered by the Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), which has close connections to secret services. Is gunPT any better? Finally, why should I trust gunpg? I'm a windows