Re: pinentry-curses unusable with gpg-agent --no-detach

2015-02-05 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Steps to demonstrate issue: (1) Start gpg-agent with --no-detach option (2) Make sure $DISPLAY is not set to force pinentry to fallback to curses (3) Attempt to decode a gpg-encrypted file to trigger pinentry [...]

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-05 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 04/02/15 23:12, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: You could protect against this scenario by signing the firmware. Yes, you /could/. However, we were talking about Rainer smartcard readers, which /don't/. I think we're really not having the same discussion here... I didn't make this argument.

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-05 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
On 2015-02-05 10:38, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 04/02/15 23:12, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: You could protect against this scenario by signing the firmware. Yes, you /could/. However, we were talking about Rainer smartcard readers, which /don't/. Do you have evidence for this? If they

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-05 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 05-02-2015 a las 16:00, MFPA escibiĆ³: Hi On Thursday 5 February 2015 at 9:38:29 AM, in mid:54d33a15.5050...@digitalbrains.com, Peter Lebbing wrote: Oh, by the way: But will a smartcard solve the problem that the host computer

pinentry-curses unusable with gpg-agent --no-detach

2015-02-05 Thread Matt Garman
This might be a bug, but could also be user-error, so I thought I'd check the mailing list. I'm using gpg-agent v2.0.14 (this ships with CentOS/RHEL 6.5). This distribution ships pinentry-0.7.6, but I also see this behavior with the latest pinentry-0.9.0 from gnupg.org source. Steps to

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-05 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 5 February 2015 at 9:38:29 AM, in mid:54d33a15.5050...@digitalbrains.com, Peter Lebbing wrote: Oh, by the way: But will a smartcard solve the problem that the host computer might be infected with malware? I'm absolutely sure