Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
Joel Rees via Gnupg-users wrote: Can I ask what new reason to make Stallman a scapegoat has emerged? The recent round of attacks on Stallman seem to have begun after RMS returned to the FSF Board. There is some controversy over the factual basis for these attacks. (In other words, there are accusations that the current accusations against RMS have no basis in fact and are basically made up.) There was similar controversy over the events that led to RMS leaving the FSF Board previously. Based on what I have seen, some of the accusations are fabricated, some are RMS's words twisted and taken out of context, and some are legitimate complaints about Stallman as a person and his past behavior. That said, this list is supposed to be for discussion of issues related to the use of GPG, and RMS is not related to that, so this thread really should be dropped and I am only writing this so that future readers of the list archive will not be left hanging and thinking that that question was dodged. As to your other question, I cannot speak for the motivations of other people. -- Jacob ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
On 4/9/21 19:59, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > Hi! > > can we please stop this thread? PLEASE! Thank you. > > This is a technical and privacy oriented mailing list and not a medium > to discuss the pros and cons of a certain person. There are a enough > other places for such chitchat.> Indeed. as ever, Rembrandt --- 松下問童子 言師採藥去 只在此山中 雲深不知處 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
Hi Werner, Am Fr den 9. Apr 2021 um 18:59 schrieb Werner Koch via Gnupg-users: > can we please stop this thread? > > This is a technical and privacy oriented mailing list and not a medium > to discuss the pros and cons of a certain person. There are a enough > other places for such chitchat. So please tell this to Robert J. Hansen who did twice bring some political cancel culture discussions to this list. I endorse Joel Rees question. There is no reason to try to cancel out RMS. I am not a big fan of him and his personality might be questionnaire to some, but there is no reason why he should be banned from anything. In fact, RMS did very great thinks for us as community. So please give at least something that justifies all that hate writings against RMS. Gruß Klaus -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: [GnuPG 1.4.x] max. amount of UIDs
Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 16:47, Stefan Vasilev said: for a privacy project I am working on I need the ability to use GnuPG 1.4.x No you don't need 1.4 - it is obsolete and maionatined only to decrypt existing data. I am aware of that, but my thought was that the .exe and .dll from 1.4 can be used, for portability reasons, in a Desktop folder and then one only needs to use the --homedir parameter. I must admit I have not tried yet, but if this is possible with the latest version of gpg4win, that all its required components can be installed and used with --homedir then there is no need for 1.4. for Windows and would like to know how many UIDs Alice and Bob can There is some limit on the size of the keyblock (iirc 5 MiB) , but there is no explicit limit on the number of user ids. Thank you, I will then have to work out how much UIDs may fit in a keyblock. Regards Stefan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
Hi! can we please stop this thread? This is a technical and privacy oriented mailing list and not a medium to discuss the pros and cons of a certain person. There are a enough other places for such chitchat. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Kleopatra v3.1.5 isn't happy
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 05:44, Luc Dore said: > anymore. I have this popup at startup about Kleopatra running as an admin: You should never ever run programs as Admin on Windows (or as root under Unix) if there is no need for it. For an application GUI tool there is a never such a need - install it as admin but use it with a regualr user account. If you run gnupg on the command line as Admin, gnupg may create files which it can later, running as the regular user, not read or write again. Gpg4win mereley added a warning to avoid such pitfalls. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
Can I ask what new reason to make Stallman a scapegoat has emerged? And why so many apparent core members of the gnupg community seem to be joining the cancel culture? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Kleopatra v3.1.5 isn't happy
HI Werner, You should never ever run programs as Admin on Windows -> I'm not running the program as admin, I'm running it as my regular user, but it is part of the administrators group. Gpg4win merely added a warning to avoid such pitfalls -> That's the problem Werner, once you "OK" this window Kleopatra does /not/ launch. I had to revert back to 3.0.14 to be able to use Kleopatra again. On 4/9/2021 10:01 AM, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 05:44, Luc Dore said: anymore. I have this popup at startup about Kleopatra running as an admin: You should never ever run programs as Admin on Windows (or as root under Unix) if there is no need for it. For an application GUI tool there is a never such a need - install it as admin but use it with a regualr user account. If you run gnupg on the command line as Admin, gnupg may create files which it can later, running as the regular user, not read or write again. Gpg4win mereley added a warning to avoid such pitfalls. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Luc D. -- ld...@mailc.net GPG key id: 0xB8E5417BA3D88402 Proud supporter of the EFF, www.eff.org ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: [GnuPG 1.4.x] max. amount of UIDs
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021 16:47, Stefan Vasilev said: > for a privacy project I am working on I need the ability to use GnuPG 1.4.x No you don't need 1.4 - it is obsolete and maionatined only to decrypt existing data. > for Windows and would like to know how many UIDs Alice and Bob can There is some limit on the size of the keyblock (iirc 5 MiB) , but there is no explicit limit on the number of user ids. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: GnuPG 2.3.0 database
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 07:37, murphy said:
> It is with great anticipation that I fire up a raspberry pi 4 to compile
> the newest version of GnuPG 2.3.0 using speedo. However I ran into:
>
> GnuPG version in swdb.lst is less than this version!
> This version: 2.3.0
> SWDB version: 2.2.27
Sorry about this. There is an easy fix:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
--- a/build-aux/getswdb.sh
+++ b/build-aux/getswdb.sh
@@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ fi
# to help detect rollback attacks.
#
if [ $skip_selfcheck = no ]; then
- gnupg_ver=$(awk '$1=="gnupg22_ver" {print $2;exit}' swdb.lst)
+ gnupg_ver=$(awk '$1=="gnupg24_ver" {print $2;exit}' swdb.lst)
if [ -z "$gnupg_ver" ]; then
- echo "GnuPG 2.2 version missing in swdb.lst!" >&2
+ echo "GnuPG 2.4 version info missing in swdb.lst!" >&2
exit 1
fi
gnupg_ver_num=$(echo "$gnupg_ver" | cvtver)
Modified configure.ac
--8<---cut here---end--->8---
Not guarantee that things works, the release process uses speedo only
for the Windows build. So, if you run into more errors, please let us
know.
Shalom-Salam,
Werner
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Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
The only thing that I can say is that I would rather see a FAQ that reflect the current inplementation of GPG than a non-up to date FAQ per lack of user consensus (1). The problem there is without community buy-in, the FAQ lacks credibility. It's supposed to be the *community's* FAQ, which is why people consider it authoritative. "This is Rob's thinking" would be, to say the least, controversial: some people think I explain things accurately and clearly, and others think I've been sniffing glue since a tender age. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
[GnuPG 1.4.x] max. amount of UIDs
Hello, for a privacy project I am working on I need the ability to use GnuPG 1.4.x for Windows and would like to know how many UIDs Alice and Bob can assing to a shared single key pair. Regards Stefan ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Kleopatra v3.1.5 isn't happy
Hello Everyone, I just updated my win 10 install to gnupg 3.1.5 and kleopatra isn't happy anymore. I have this popup at startup about Kleopatra running as an admin: Does any one know the proper permissions that the error message is referring to? my windows user has full control over my appdata\roaming\gnupg folder. Thanks. -- Luc D. -- ld...@mailc.net GPG key id: 0xB8E5417BA3D88402 Proud supporter of the EFF, www.eff.org OpenPGP_0xB8E5417BA3D88402.asc Description: OpenPGP public key OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Follow-up on L'Affaire Stallman
On 4/8/2021 5:19 PM, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote: If anyone in the community has strong feelings about the FAQ -- what should go in, what should be left out, etc. -- now's the time. The only thing that I can say is that I would rather see a FAQ that reflect the current inplementation of GPG than a non-up to date FAQ per lack of user consensus (1). EG: Due to a lack of consensus, the FAQ was never updated to reflect that '3072' is now the default in GPG. That is to say, that in my view a FAQ that explains clearly how to use GPG is somewhat more importent than comunity feedback. A statement to that effect at the top of the page could be added describing why this way was chosen. 1) https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2021-March/064974.html -- John Doe ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
