Best practices for OpenPGP keys?

2010-03-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, Is there any good documentation about best practices for OpenPGP key management? I plan to use gnupg (gpg), as it's conventional and seems like the best of breed these days. Most documentation I've found seems significantly out of date (including long discussions of incompatibilities with

Keysigning, Cincinnati, OH area, or Sask (as far as Alberta border)

2006-05-19 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hi, I'm off on two trips. One across Saskatchewan (Trans Canada, and parts south), from one side of the province to the other. The other to Cincinnati, OH via Minneapolis, MN Airport. Email me for details (I'm not subscribed to debian-devel). I may not be able to use my existing key (forgot

Re: Snort: Mass Bug Closing

2003-08-25 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
In response to several issues raised... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191105 Not having updated signatures is not an issue that should keep snort out of stable as administrators may write their own signatures for snort. Perhaps however a wishlist bug asking for a comment

Status of Unofficial Sarge Release Issues (Updated for July)

2003-07-02 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
The last time I posted my unofficial release issues status I received several requests to change the formatting, and so I have. I plan to find a site to host this html document (preferably alioth), but I haven't ironed out the details yet. It should also be strongly noted that this is an

Re: Application files in $HOME

2003-06-26 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Is connecting files to packages like this part of cruft? A potential wishlist item for cruft? Drew Daniels

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I've been meaning to write this for a while. I wrote up a procecure and I may have even posted it. I include files indicated by cruft in my backups. I'm also looking at checking md5sums and atimes to help decide if backups of files like conf files is neccisary or if they're just the defaults from

Status of Sarge Release Issues (Updated for June)

2003-06-02 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I didn't have much of a chance to update this report to be accurate to more than from a few days ago, but here it is as I'll likely be busy for the next few days. I'll try to post another message updating this stuff again next month. Note I haven't included the latest apt translation announcement

Comments and proposals for security bugs

2003-05-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
There are many questions and comments about how the security team, RM and others handle security bugs. Some change is desired by at least several people. I've already started trying to help clean up security bugs. I won't even bother volunteering for the security team until I've had my identity

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'm glad to see this service. The Developer's Reference lists http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ as being a place to co-ordinate the sponsoring of packages. Currently it's unavailable to me (down?). Other problems I have with it include: no place to upload packages and it's for

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
First off, great work! Now I can remove the retirement item off my old todo list. [1] On Tue, 13 May 2003, James Troup wrote: On the 12th March I sent out a maintainer ping to 191 possibly inactive Debian developers. The list of developers was generated by looking first at all maintainers

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Le Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:39:46PM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels écrivait: page). What happened to the qa MIA database? The code's at http://cvs.debian.org/mia/?cvsroot=qa but I can't find anything online. The code is setup on qa.debian.org, just

Re: [debian-devel] Status of mICQ code audit

2003-04-22 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:57:25 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:07, Rdiger Kuhlmann wrote: d) the libel published in the Debian Weekly News of 2003-02-18; cf http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200302/msg01391.html .. none of those can be fixed by you.

Status of Sarge release issues

2003-04-14 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I'd like to see a place where the status of all the various places where potential Sarge release issues are tracked. I feel that http://www.debian.org/devel/testing was missing things, and I didn't see anything else like this. Following the debian-devel convention, I created something myself. I

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
I don't quite understand all the concepts being discussed but the following web pages may be worth reading. http://master.debian.org/~brinkmd/arch-handling.txt http://lists.debian.org/debian-win32/2003/debian-win32-200302/msg00018.html

Re: web browser bookmark defaults

2002-11-22 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: Richard Braakman wrote: We're not _removing_ anything, we're providing an integrated system. in this cotext, it seems that upstream galeon _includes_ those bookmarks (redhat, slackware, et al). to _remove_ those bookmarks is a _removal_ for

Re: How to get rid of non-free packers?

2002-08-23 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote: When I run command vrms in my Debian GNU/Linux, most of those non-free packages it finds are packers and/or unpackers. How about you? I like to There may be patent issues. I'd check with the authors of the archivers. Additionally reading the