Re: USB key form-factor smart-card readers with pinpads?

2014-01-06 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
. But for such a tradeoff other things should be considerd first (is your PIN really your biggest concern if you don't trust your computer/keyboard, is your reader really more trustworthy than your computer, ...). -- Michel Messerschmidt li...@michel-messerschmidt.de

Re: no valid subkey

2014-01-06 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
) erik.hjalmar.josefs...@gmail.com -- Michel Messerschmidt li...@michel-messerschmidt.de ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: More secure than smartcard or cryptostick against remote attacks?

2013-02-07 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:03:30AM -, refresh...@tormail.org wrote: I have no reason to believe my system is compromised. Taking security very serious. Otherwise I wouldn't bother posting here. :) That sounds like a oxymoron. How can I be REALLY sure my system isn't compromised? Mail

Re: RSA // OAEP // SHA-1

2013-01-30 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:36:25PM -0600, John Clizbe wrote: ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: if so, would this fall under the open-pgp RFC, or would it have to go through an RSA standard first? RFC 4880 makes no mention of OAEP. RFC 4880 references RFC 3447 for details of RSA

Re: making (future) OpenPGP cards without PIN pad safer

2012-11-21 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 06:46:36PM +0100, Hauke Laging wrote: The card already has additional storage for private use (if I have understood the documentation correctly). The idea: Wouldn't it be rather easily possible to allow the use of the card by a) either the real password (like today)

Re: RFE: --update-before-use

2012-06-17 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 05:32:36PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: Yes, I understand that spreading out keyserver requests can help avoid this sort of tracking, but remember that the keyserver URL feature allows the keyholder to bypass the keyserver chosen by the user, and send the requests

Re: changing the default for --keyid-format

2012-05-30 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:03:57PM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: There may be a use case for contextualization in certificates, but if so I haven't found it yet. :) You may wnat to lookup up all certificates that signed a certificate. Or just get all your certificates displayed. Or all

Re: Card only available to root user

2011-11-29 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:06:45PM +0100, Olav Seyfarth wrote: It seems the above files don't solve my problem since they all trigger on USB events. However, my PCMCIA based reader Omnikey CardMan 4040 (linked as supported device on http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/ch02s02.html) seems

Re: Key revocation UI confusion

2011-10-15 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:58:27AM +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 16/10/11 2:15 AM, MFPA wrote: The key revocation message saying this key was revoked suggests it to be referring to the key that was just listed rather than the one that is about to be listed. Maybe something like the

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-13 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:03:56AM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: It seems to me that to do much damage to my machine, you need to get a shell with root access. Depends on what you regard as damage. Do you need root privileges to use your private gpg keys ??? I never run a web browser as

Re: secring and dropbox

2011-07-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:17:27PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 05:15:25PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: So, it appears I'm missing some configuration in Mutt then, as it remains as the PGP message without any attempt to get to the plain text. Also, how do you get the

Re: Is the OpenPGP model still useful?

2011-04-29 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
Sounds very much like Off-the-Record messaging for every kind of communication. Or is there a difference I have missed? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Having trouble getting GPG to accept input from a pinpad

2011-01-03 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 01:26:05AM -0800, Paul Richard Ramer wrote: I'll gladly answer any questions about my setup or tools or run different stuff to debug this situation. I just want to start using my pinpad. :-) Have you tried it with gnupg 2.0.x ? IIRC you need at least 2.0.12 for the

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:26:19PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net said: While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. I see no reason for

Re: 1.4.11 release candidate

2010-09-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:26:19PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:20, war_is_pe...@privatdemail.net said: While you're at it, you might want to update zlib to version 1.2.5 - looking at the source, it seems that the currently used version is 1.1.4. I see no reason for

Re: verifying hashes with GnuPG

2010-07-20 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:14:16PM -0400, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: Is there a gnupg command to verifiy a hash, not a signature, (e.g. MD5, SHA1, SHA256), by entering the hash string and the file or text it corresponds to? Why would you want to use gnupg for this if md5sum, sha1sum,

Re: Restarting gpg-agent

2010-03-14 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 12:24:14PM -0700, James Moe wrote: Hello, opensuse v11.2, linux 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop x86_64, gpg v2.0.12. The docs at http://www.gnupg.org/ cover starting gpg-agent pretty well. What is missing is how to re-start it. If gpg-agent is terminated for some reason,

Re: gpg.conf

2009-11-02 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:51:46AM -, David Gray wrote: Could anyone point me in the right direction for a manual/examples on how to edit the gpg.conf file for GnuPG 2.0.12 (GPG 4 Win)? http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/Invoking-GPG.html#Invoking-GPG Within this manual

Re: how to validate keys on smartcard (only) on an other PC or on a news OS installation

2009-08-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 03:39:34PM +0200, tux.tsn...@free.fr wrote: So how can I do that (import key, when I've only keys on smartcard, no public key on keyserver or on file and no file private and secret keys backup. AFAIK the smartcard contains only your secret keys not the public keys.

Re: Signature verification failed

2009-06-21 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 02:42:45AM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Joel C. Salomon wrote: gpg command line and output: C:\\Program Files\\GNU\\GnuPG\\gpg.exe --charset utf8 --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 --keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --verify gpg:

Re: Active Directory, My documents and Temporary Files

2009-06-21 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:15:48PM +0400, gpg2.20.mani...@dfgh.net wrote: 4. Sorry if this is OT or if this is a long post I felt that this experience sharing is essential on this list , because there may be other users who may be blisfully un aware of this problem of temp files and my

Re: Signature verification failed

2009-06-21 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 06:33:11PM +0200, Thomas Bohn wrote: On Jun 21, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: Interesting, now it comes up as good. Did you change some setting? I didn't change anything. At least the version in the signature header changed from 2.0.11 to 2.0.12.

Re: Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-14 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 05:33:07PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 14:41, li...@michel-messerschmidt.de said: I don't think gpg has problem identifying and finding the secret key, but it refuses to decrypt a message with a key that had no encryption capability set during

Re: Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-05 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
... [...] :encrypted data packet: length: unknown gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit RSA key, ID 96C5988D, created 2006-12-03 Michel Messerschmidt m...@michel-messerschmidt.de gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID gpg: decryption failed: No secret key I don't think gpg has problem

Is it possible to force decryption with the wrong key type

2009-06-04 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
: encrypted with 1024-bit RSA key, ID 96C5988D, created 2006-12-03 Michel Messerschmidt m...@michel-messerschmidt.de gpg: public key decryption failed: Wrong secret key used gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID gpg: decryption failed: No secret key $ gpg2 --edit-key 96C5988D Secret key

Re: How secure asymmetric encryption to yourself?

2009-02-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:42:32PM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Open up my wallet, fish out the list, and there it is. Although I think this one of the most secure but usable places, what if a real life phisher gets your wallet? No problem to cancel credit cards. But are you able to reset all

Re: gpg: failed to create temporary file

2009-02-10 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
One last test: Rather than having BPEL run gpg directly, perhaps you could have it run a shell script that in turn runs gpg. You should then be able to set whatever variables you need prior to the call of gpg from within the shell script. You can also enable tracing (set -o xtrace) to help

Re: OT: virus on the wild?

2009-01-22 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:51:23AM -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Faramir wrote: And the second question is: Does somebody know about this virus? Is is as fast spreading as it looks like? Yes. No. Moo. Ten pounds of flax. Getting accurate intelligence about the spread of malware is a

Re: Signature semantics

2008-11-05 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:04:19PM -0500, David Shaw wrote: Indeed. The alteration also may or may not be malicious. The most common alteration I've ever seen are mail programs that break the signature via word-wrap or the like. (Hence the frequent Does my signature verify now? message

Re: Securely delete files...

2008-08-20 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:21:04PM -0400, John W. Moore III wrote: I believe that We are all agreed that physical destruction of the HD is the only truly effective means of ensuring Data cannot be recovered. There is also the possibility to use encryption for *all* data on a harddisk. If the

Re: export key: access denied

2008-07-23 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:54:35PM -0700, kurt c wrote: no, i typed in my windows vista command prompt: gpg -a --export 0x8e758d5f mykey.asc and i only get access is denied. i guess no one knows why. Are you sure that your user has write permissions in the current directory? signature.asc

Re: changing the default keyring location in windows

2008-04-21 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I want to move my keyring files from %appdata%/gnupg to R:/ You can either set GNUPGHOME=R:/ or add/change the entry HomeDir in the registry under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\GnuPG Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Using CCID and PCSC

2008-04-02 Thread Michel Messerschmidt
Hello, is there a possibility to force gnupg 2 to use the internal CCID smartcard driver even if pcscd is running (something like the --disable-ccid option but for pcsc) ? I have a SCM SPR532 reader and like to use the pinpad. But it's deactivated if pcscd is running. Thanks, Michel