Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora handles

2011-01-04 Thread gazz


On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 00:54 +, Philip Stubbs wrote:

> stu...@joindiaspora.com
> 
> -- 
> Philip Stubbs
> 

With apologies to those upset about this thread - yes, maybe separate
list but in the meantime: bastu...@joindiaspora.com

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:35 +, Colin Law wrote:
> If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about
> and hope for the best?  :)

You multiply part of it with the lock, and then modulo it with the
doorknob.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:45 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.

Added to my signature quotes source file. :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-04 Thread Barry Drake
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:08 +, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Ubuntu One store has enough music to buy things. I have found that the
> latest Album by Blunt is cheaper than iTunes and amazon. 
> I thought amarok and banshee had support to put music inside the ipod?

Like I said, the we-page I quoted is well out of date.  I think all the
latest iPods are well supported by Amarok, Banshee and Rhythmbox.  I'm
pleased to hear that the Ubuntu One store is really good.  I can see the
time when Apple regrets the decision not to build iTunes for us!

The other examples you quote are fairly typical of the experiences most
of us have with Windows users.  I'm surprised you had difficulty
sourcing an IDE drive - there are seven pages of them currently on
e-bay.  Also, you can buy very cheaply an ide to sata adaptor.  If your
father in law has a desktop, I'd get him a sata drive and one of those
little sata/ide adaptors.  I got mine on e-bay.

Thanks for sharing your news.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
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That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first
OggCamp called "Programming explained to non-techies"



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[ubuntu-uk] Research required ...

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Ubuntu One store has enough music to buy things. I have found that the
latest Album by Blunt is cheaper than iTunes and amazon.

I thought amarok and banshee had support to put music inside the ipod?

Recently I installed ubuntu on a girl's laptop that I haddn't even met face
to face. She had XP and was going slow because of antivirus it seems. She
only uses it for facebook and email so she seems to be happy with what she
had: only problem I had was that I fogot to tell her the keyring password.

Also had a problem with father in law: HDD broke windows wasn't loggin it.
It was an IDE HDD so not something you can easyliy find it seems. He was
content with waiting a while longer and booting from an Xubuntu live CD.
It's only used for browsing.

Sister in law had a netbook with xp it crashed. Her other brother in law was
unable to install a dodgy copy of windows but I was able to install no
problem ubuntu netbook10.10. Even hung over from newyears party she knew
that firefox icon was internet and that she could do her documents with
openoffice. I told her I could provide with remote support (I can right?)
and she was well happy that I could recover her 16Gb of pictures. I tried
explaining gwibber but was not convinced. Chat with facebook (empathy)
failed but that happens to me as well..


quote:
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 +
From: Barry Drake 
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...
To: UK Ubuntu Talk 
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Those of you on the advertising list will know that Dant? Ashton and I
have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of
the average Windows user.  Please consider helping with this research.
The aim is to pick a particular 'need' and to follow through whether
this need can be met under Ubuntu, how easily and how successfully.
This use should ideally be one that your Windows friend would have, and
preferably a need that you know little about.

First take a look at:
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/switching/C/applications-equivalents.html

This page may need revision, and certainly needs extending.

Rules for research: any necessary packages to be easily and quickly
installed without using the commandline.  The preference would be to use
the Ubuntu Software Centre.  If you have a way of meeting the need, but
this requires commandline or other methods, please submit this anyway -
Ubuntu could incorporate a simple workaround.  Any scripts or code you
write to make things work could be posted.  Stuff like that could easily
be part of a package and run on installation without the user being in
any way aware of the complexity.

When you have done the research, please report on how easy it was to
access the information and provide links if a good method is suggested
online somewhere.

So far, I have researched iPod and iTunes.  I have also explored
Logos/Libronix as a colleague has over ?1000 worth of books in that
format.  I have to report that Ubuntu is not for him.  I have e-mailed
Logos and received a reply stating that at present they do not have
plans to support our platform.  The same was true of Mac until many many
Mac users complained to Logos!  A niche area, but maybe you'd like to
aid that cause?

I also did a webcam exercise with my sister.  The task was dead easy for
me - but incredibly daunting for my sister and it need not have been!
That one hardly wants any tweaking but it does need tweaking and
properly documenting.

Researching iTunes, I found an official Ubuntu document that said iTunes
would install under PlayOnLinux.  I tested this.  Only iTunes 10.6 can
be made to work, and it installs crippled.  The CD rip and burn
facilities don't work.  It is official policy that we do not include
methods based on Wine or any of its derivatives as these, however good,
are not for the Ubuntu newbie.

The result of the above is that iTunes can be perfectly replaced and
iPods work just fine under Ubuntu with several apps BUT the Apple
download store cannot be accessed.  Most of you knew that already - I
was working in the dark and discovered how hard it was to get
information  that a newbie could follow.

So - lay aside your geekiness for a time, imagine you're a newbie and
volunteer to research a particular need.  Please state the one you are
thinking of pursuing so we don't duplicate the effort.  If there's a
good response, maybe someone who has admin access to the Canonical or
Ubuntu website can set up a Wiki for us to report back on?

Hope I'm not treading on any Canonical toes here   apologies in
advance if I am.

Regards,Barry Drake.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Jon Spriggs
That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first
OggCamp called "Programming explained to non-techies"
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On 4 January 2011 14:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella  wrote:
> Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard
> Stallman use it).
>
> If you are a good cook and you make your soup for free at home to your
> friends and/or give the recipie so others can improve on it will it mean
> that it will be worst than at a michellin star soup. There is a good chance
> that it will be better since you can adjust it as you like and it has
> quicker feedback. You can then charge on support to make sure your reciepie
> works properly on your kitchen so you don't need a new induction kitchen to
> get the same result.
>
> Was planning on writting something on the recipie of a spanish omlette,
> similar to the lines above.
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[ubuntu-uk] [job] Engineers wanted - Weybridge

2011-01-04 Thread Laura Czajkowski
Aloha I thought I’d post here as well, I work here and it’s great!

Sirius (http://siriusit.co.uk/)  is currently looking for bright university
graduates looking into joining a young open source company. Sirius is an
Open Source consultancy focused on helping our customers to make the most
out of open source and create great innovative products with it.

The working environment is really flexible and we have a great team of
developers and engineers. Our projects cover the whole desktop, mobile and
embedded Linux stack. We are particularly looking for people with some
involvement in open source ( and an interest in getting involved in low
level kernel and graphics development, but if you are focused on other areas
that you think might be interesting don’t hesitate

The job would be on site in our offices in Weybridge so people living within
the EU or people with a work permit in the UK are possibly well suited.

Sirius is looking for a qualified individual to work as a Technical Support
Engineer. The Support Engineer provides comprehensive
telephone/web/e-mail/chat technical and application support to Sirius
customers. The candidate must be able to work directly with customers in
high-pressure situations; have strong analytic, organizational, time 
management, and communication skills; thrive in a team environment; and
possess the willingness to do whatever it takes to achieve the highest 
customer satisfaction. The candidate will interact with development and
project teams to investigate and resolve issues.

The job  responsibilities include, but are not limited to, analyze, track
and resolve customer issues in a professional, timely manner; identify any
security upgrades that are necessary and communicate them to customers;
maintain and update web based support documentation, using monitoring
software to identify potential support issues.

The role is shift based and will include some night shifts.

Requirements

* Experience working with Open Source technologies
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Outstanding interpersonal and telephone skills
* Strong problem solving skills
* Ability to function and thrive in a team environment
* Energetic, with a strong desire to succeed
* Experience within a similar role would be beneficial

If you’re interested or want to know more about the place or the job you can
contact me on freenode as czajkowski or mail Kelly - kelly DOT flitter @
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard
Stallman use it).

If you are a good cook and you make your soup for free at home to your
friends and/or give the recipie so others can improve on it will it mean
that it will be worst than at a michellin star soup. There is a good chance
that it will be better since you can adjust it as you like and it has
quicker feedback. You can then charge on support to make sure your reciepie
works properly on your kitchen so you don't need a new induction kitchen to
get the same result.

Was planning on writting something on the recipie of a spanish omlette,
similar to the lines above.
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[ubuntu-uk] weekly and monthly digest?

2011-01-04 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Hello,

Is there a way to get a weekly or monthly digest? It seems to be limited to
10 messages now.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-04 Thread Matthew Wild
On 4 January 2011 09:45, James Tait  wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 03/01/11 17:26, Paul Tansom wrote:
>> I added myself to the waiting list a while back though, so I'll
>> probably get one eventually.
>
> If you haven't already had an invitation, I can send you one. Best reply
> off-list though. ;)
>
>> I looked at the requirements for running a server, but decided I
>> didn't really want to start messing with Ruby as there's nothing else
>> on my server that uses it. If it had been Perl (or PHP?!) I might
>> have taken a closer look.
>
> My sentiments exactly. This is kind of what drew me to OneSocialWeb,
> actually - since it's based on XMPP and I already run ejabberd, I
> thought the barrier to running my own server would be much lower.
> Unfortunately, OSW only has an implementation based on the Java-powered
> OpenFire XMPP server, and I don't currently use Java for anything else
> on my server either (pretty shocking, considering I've been primarily
> employed as a Java developer for most of the last 10 years!).
>

Likewise. As much as I begged the OSW developers they wouldn't fix
this, which is why I was never able to run it on my server. Having an
open protocol needlessly tied to a single implementation is not the
way to conquer the world. Unfortunately the way it was designed would
require significant code in every XMPP server.

> I've seen some comments about Diaspora-X, which seems to be Diaspora
> hacked to use XMPP as a transport. Does anyone here know any more about it?
>

Yeah, it looks promising - I'm currently working to make a
cross-XMPP-server backend for it. Not quite ready yet though :)

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 January 2011 12:35, Colin Law  wrote:
> If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about
> and hope for the best?  :)
>

"A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver."

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 January 2011 12:31, Tyler J. Wagner  wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +, Paul Sladen wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> > it should be possible to see the keyhole at least.
>>
>> You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly
>> the same as any other keyhole.
>>
>> What you can't see is any of the tumblers *in* the keyhole, or through
>> the keyhole to what is behind it, as that would be a security failure.
>
> It's a cute metaphor, but inappropriate. Encryption doesn't lock a room,
> it changes the entire contents of the room into other, random atoms.
> There's no keyhole, no tumblers, nothing to see at all except
> nearly-random noise.

If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about
and hope for the best?  :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > it should be possible to see the keyhole at least.
> 
> You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly
> the same as any other keyhole.
> 
> What you can't see is any of the tumblers *in* the keyhole, or through
> the keyhole to what is behind it, as that would be a security failure.

It's a cute metaphor, but inappropriate. Encryption doesn't lock a room,
it changes the entire contents of the room into other, random atoms.
There's no keyhole, no tumblers, nothing to see at all except
nearly-random noise.

We are very unlikely to see a genuine weakness in AES-256 in the
immediate future.

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Simon Greenwood  wrote:
> On 4 January 2011 10:15, Rowan Berkeley  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:02:03 +,Sean Miller 
> > wrote:
> > > On 4 January 2011 07:45, Rowan Berkeley 
> > > wrote:
> > > > I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04,
> > > > but OpenSSL is a command line application and I wonder if anyone
> > > > could tell me what to type into the terminal in order to at least
> > > > inspect the file and gain some information about it.
> > > Well, it's encrypted so you'd need to know the encryption key (aka
> > > "password") to inspect the file... if you don't, you can't. Or am I
> > > misunderstanding something? Sean
> > I don't know much about cryptography, but if I could compare the
> > situation to a box with a lock on it, it should be possible to see the
> > keyhole at least. Thus, I would expect it to be possible to look at the
> > file and say, yes, this is a text file encrypted with AES256, and it
> > requires a password of x characters to open it. R
> The encryption key will show how the file has been encrypted but certainly
> not the length of the password, which would be an open attack vector.
There
> are tools in the OpenSSL toolkit that validate encrypted files without
> providing any identifying information.
I've looked at the toolkit documents at http://www.openssl.org/docs/
and they're all way over my head. What I originally had in mind was
something I could put into the terminal for a given location, e.g.
/home/rowan/Documents/Insurance.aes256 which would do just that: validate
it. R
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> it should be possible to see the keyhole at least.

You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly
the same as any other keyhole.

What you can't see is any of the tumblers *in* the keyhole, or through
the keyhole to what is behind it, as that would be a security failure.

If you could get even a glimpse of either the make-up of the keyhole
or the contents that it is protecting, then you now have sufficient
plaintext or key leakage to start reducing the brute-force case into
something more practical.  Which is bad(tm).

-Paul


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 4 January 2011 10:15, Rowan Berkeley  wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:02:03 +,Sean Miller 
> wrote:
>
> > On 4 January 2011 07:45, Rowan Berkeley 
> > wrote:
> > > I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04,
> > > but OpenSSL is a command line application and I wonder if anyone
> > > could tell me what to type into the terminal in order to at least
> > > inspect the file and gain some information about it.
> >
> > Well, it's encrypted so you'd need to know the encryption key (aka
> > "password") to inspect the file... if you don't, you can't. Or am I
> > misunderstanding something? Sean
>
> I don't know much about cryptography, but if I could compare the
> situation to a box with a lock on it, it should be possible to see the
> keyhole at least. Thus, I would expect it to be possible to look at the
> file and say, yes, this is a text file encrypted with AES256, and it
> requires a password of x characters to open it. R
>
>
>
The encryption key will show how the file has been encrypted but certainly
not the length of the password, which would be an open attack vector. There
are tools in the OpenSSL toolkit that validate encrypted files without
providing any identifying information.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Sean Miller
On 4 January 2011 10:15, Rowan Berkeley  wrote:

> I don't know much about cryptography, but if I could compare the
> situation to a box with a lock on it, it should be possible to see the
> keyhole at least. Thus, I would expect it to be possible to look at the
> file and say, yes, this is a text file encrypted with AES256, and it
> requires a password of x characters to open it. R
>

I think you may be oversimplifying this...  I do not see how you'd be able
to ascertain the number of characters at all, as the password would clearly
be encrypted itself...

Take md5, for instance...

mysql> select md5('hello') from dual;
+--+
| md5('hello') |
+--+
| 5d41402abc4b2a76b9719d911017c592 |
+--+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select md5('this is a very long password') from dual;
+-+
| md5('this is a very long password') |
+-+
| d25dcb07b6b0d7d5ca6ee555d73a50ce|
+-+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

mysql>

>From those two strings you would not know that one was 5 characters and the
other significantly more, as the encrypted version is almost the same length
in both cases...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:02:03 +,Sean Miller 
wrote:

> On 4 January 2011 07:45, Rowan Berkeley 
> wrote:
> > I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04,
> > but OpenSSL is a command line application and I wonder if anyone 
> > could tell me what to type into the terminal in order to at least 
> > inspect the file and gain some information about it.
> 
> Well, it's encrypted so you'd need to know the encryption key (aka
> "password") to inspect the file... if you don't, you can't. Or am I
> misunderstanding something? Sean 

I don't know much about cryptography, but if I could compare the
situation to a box with a lock on it, it should be possible to see the
keyhole at least. Thus, I would expect it to be possible to look at the
file and say, yes, this is a text file encrypted with AES256, and it
requires a password of x characters to open it. R


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-04 Thread James Tait
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On 03/01/11 17:26, Paul Tansom wrote:
> I added myself to the waiting list a while back though, so I'll 
> probably get one eventually.

If you haven't already had an invitation, I can send you one. Best reply
off-list though. ;)

> I looked at the requirements for running a server, but decided I
> didn't really want to start messing with Ruby as there's nothing else
> on my server that uses it. If it had been Perl (or PHP?!) I might
> have taken a closer look.

My sentiments exactly. This is kind of what drew me to OneSocialWeb,
actually - since it's based on XMPP and I already run ejabberd, I
thought the barrier to running my own server would be much lower.
Unfortunately, OSW only has an implementation based on the Java-powered
OpenFire XMPP server, and I don't currently use Java for anything else
on my server either (pretty shocking, considering I've been primarily
employed as a Java developer for most of the last 10 years!).

I've seen some comments about Diaspora-X, which seems to be Diaspora
hacked to use XMPP as a transport. Does anyone here know any more about it?

JT
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Alan Bell

On 04/01/11 07:45, Rowan Berkeley wrote:

Hi. AEScrypt say they have looked at WikiLeaks' mysterious 1.4GB
'Insurance.aes256' file, and it appears to have been encrypted using
OpenSSL:
http://forums.packetizer.com/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=108
I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04, but
OpenSSL is a command line application and I wonder if anyone could tell
me what to type into the terminal in order to at least inspect the file
and gain some information about it.



openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in Insurance.aes256 -out lotsofsecrets.txt

of course it won't do anything at all without the password which you 
won't get unless Julian Assange meets a sticky end.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Sean Miller
On 4 January 2011 07:45, Rowan Berkeley  wrote:

> I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04, but
> OpenSSL is a command line application and I wonder if anyone could tell
> me what to type into the terminal in order to at least inspect the file
> and gain some information about it.
>

Well, it's encrypted so you'd need to know the encryption key (aka
"password") to inspect the file... if you don't, you can't

Or am I misunderstanding something?

Sean
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