Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-19 Thread Travis H.
On 12/18/05, Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It would happen at least as much as it happens with > > https, and it happens enough with https that false > > negatives enormously outweigh true negatives. > > True, but I don't see false negatives very often with https at all. And > I visit f

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-19 Thread James A. Donald
-- James A. Donald: > > My two most recent logins were with "First National > > Bank of Omaha" and "Your IBM Savings plan" > > > > Is "firstnational.com" the same entity as "First > > National Bank of Omaha"? Is > > "https://lb22.resources.hewitt.com"; the same entity > > as "Your IBM Savin

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-18 Thread Ben Laurie
James A. Donald wrote: > -- > "James A. Donald" >>> Let us imagine that SSH had certified keys. Well, >>> certifying a key is bound to be complicated, and >>> things are bound to go wrong, and the name that you >>> bind it to is bound to be somewhat shifty. > > Ben Laurie >> I don't see wh

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-18 Thread James A. Donald
-- "James A. Donald" > > Let us imagine that SSH had certified keys. Well, > > certifying a key is bound to be complicated, and > > things are bound to go wrong, and the name that you > > bind it to is bound to be somewhat shifty. Ben Laurie > I don't see why that would happen all that muc

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-17 Thread Ben Laurie
James A. Donald wrote: > -- > From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>if the key changes in OpenSSH you can't connect until >>you take positive action by deleting the old key from >>the known_hosts file. This is totally different to >>accepting a new key. >> >>I will agree

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-17 Thread Damien Miller
David Mercer wrote: > And my appologies to Ben Laurie and friends, but why after all these > years is the UI interaction in ssh almost exactly the same when > accepting a key for the first time as overriding using a different one > when it changed on the other end, whether from mitm or just a > ke

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-16 Thread James A. Donald
-- From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > if the key changes in OpenSSH you can't connect until > you take positive action by deleting the old key from > the known_hosts file. This is totally different to > accepting a new key. > > I will agree that something better than ju

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-16 Thread Ben Laurie
David Mercer wrote: >>>Horrible, horrible UI, and I'm not sure what's worse, that or trying >>>to USE pgp (gpg, whatever) from a command line, or getting it >>>integrated into a gui mail client. >> >>Two words: Thunderbird, enigmail. > > > Sorry, I've become totally addicted to gmail and just can

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-16 Thread David Mercer
On 12/15/05, Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Mercer wrote: > Thanks for the apology, but ... ssh is not my fault. Sorry, crosswired openssl and openssh in my brain! > I will agree that something better than just showing you the key would > be cool. Like maybe it could be signed by s

Re: Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-16 Thread Ben Laurie
David Mercer wrote: > And my appologies to Ben Laurie and friends, but why after all these > years is the UI interaction in ssh almost exactly the same when > accepting a key for the first time as overriding using a different one > when it changed on the other end, whether from mitm or just a > key

Crypto and UI issues

2005-12-13 Thread David Mercer
(Hopefully this is sent as ascii, as I had previously set my gmail to send in utf-8 encoding, as I often send email in french as well as english. -djm) On 12/11/05, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is not my position that inability to sign means that > the chairman of the board is s