Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2015 12:51 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Are any GnuPG dev people at the Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia, that is now until Saturaday? I'm arriving today. It could be useful to have a little GnuPG chat in person. Daniel Kahn

Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Peter, as your message hasn't reached the list inspite of being addressed to it, I resend it. Thanks Stephan Weitergeleitete Nachricht Betreff: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption Datum: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 18:53:57 +0100 Von: Peter Lebbing

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Feb 27, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:26, patr...@enigmail.net said: that anyone can upload _every_ key to a keyserver is an issue. If keyservers would do some sort of verification (e.g. confirmation of the email addresses) then this would lead to much more

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/27/2015 12:43 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: Am Fr 27.02.2015, 12:27:40 schrieb gnupgpacker: Maybe implementation with an opt-in could preserve publishing of faked keys on public

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
It is in the constitution; if you are a FOSS developer the least I can do is provide $beverage. I'm glad I contribute code to a couple of small FOSS digital forensics projects, then. Because I've never contributed a single line of code to GnuPG or Enigmail. :) signature.asc Description:

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 14:00 +0100, Hans of Guardian wrote: The PGP keyservers need email validation no it's pretty useless from a security POV and they don't need it. not as a way to provide any kind of trusted status of that key, but rather so enable people to delete keys that should no

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Feb 27, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 27/02/15 12:02, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: For example, I think that `gpg --json` is great idea. I ended up using a Java wrapper of GPGME, which is in turn a wrapper of GnuPG. I think it makes a lot more sense to have `gpg --json`

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2015 02:00 PM, Hans of Guardian wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Werner Koch wrote: ... Services like keybase.io with poor security practices are going to rapidly take over from the PGP keyserver pool because they address

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:51, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: Admittedly, the GnuPG dev people is really a one-element list containing Werner. But there are certainly people active in the GnuPG The web page lists more and several more have write access to git.gnupg.org. I considered to affend but

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 03/03/15 14:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: It is actually more difficult to wrap GPGME in Java than to have just rewritten GPGME in Java. In my opinion, if this is the case, then that is indeed the proper solution: write a general-purpose library à la GPGME, but don't call gpg directly from

Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread MichaelQuigley
Gnupg-users gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org wrote on 03/03/2015 09:41:25 AM: - Message from Stephan Beck st...@mailbox.org on Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:40:45 +0100 - To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption Am 03.03.2015 um

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:19 PM, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: Hi Hans-Christoph! Hans-Christoph Steiner h...@guardianproject.info wrote: With all the recent attention to GnuPG and Werner's work, I have begun to think about things differently. GnuPG has an amazing security track record. It

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2015 01:50 PM, Hans of Guardian wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 02/27/2015 12:43 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: Am Fr 27.02.2015, 12:27:40 schrieb gnupgpacker: Maybe implementation with an opt-in could

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2015 04:20 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 03/03/2015 01:50 PM, Hans of Guardian wrote: On Feb 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: ... The standard PGP keyserver pool is a mess with racist spam, lost keys

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
Yeah, mailpile has a very unusual architecture, so its no surprise it'll need some unusual tricks. Unusual tricks in software that aims to be secure generally make me nervous since it is important to keep code readable and understandable for both the core devs, but also contributors,

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Services like keybase.io with poor security practices... I fail to see how this is a failure on the side of the keyservers... I fully agree with Kristian. I further don't see how keybase.io amounts to poor security practice. The Web of Trust is, itself, a poor practice because it's

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 03/03/15 14:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: It is actually more difficult to wrap GPGME in Java than to have just rewritten GPGME in Java. In my opinion, if this is the case, then that is indeed the proper solution: write a general-purpose

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Different programming languages and operating systems can have very different ways of launching and handling external processes. Eh. Different operating systems, sure: that's the nature of kernels. They provide different syscalls, and that's at root how you launch an external process -- by

Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/03/2015 01:54 PM, Stephan Beck wrote: Hi Peter, as your message hasn't reached the list inspite of being addressed to it, I resend it. Fwiw, it reached the list just fine:

Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Ville Määttä
On 03.03.15 14:54, Stephan Beck wrote: as your message hasn't reached the list inspite of being addressed to it It did :). -- Ville signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 03/03/15 18:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: Android has an installed base of hundreds of millions. Desktop UNIX is the exotic system here as compared to Windows, Android, etc. I have no idea about how difficult it is to launch the gpg binary with a few pipes attached to a few file descriptors

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Android has an installed base of hundreds of millions. So? GnuPG and GPGME are products of their birth, just like anything else. It was built for desktop operating systems. If you want to make it live in the mobile space, go with God and I wish you all the luck in the world -- but if GPGME

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
This is definitely public information from the Snowden leaks. There is also quite a bit of information about other governments doing similar things. Here's one example article: If all encrypted traffic is deemed suspicious, then 99.999% of the suspicious set -- Amazon transactions,

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:29, h...@guardianproject.info said: It is actually more difficult to wrap GPGME in Java than to have just rewritten GPGME in Java. GPGME is a fine API for C/C++, it is a bad Sorry, but that is not your problem. The problem on Android seems to be that it is not easy to

Newspeek, (was: Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation)

2015-03-03 Thread Matthias Mansfeld
On 3 Mar 2015 at 21:24, Ingo Klöcker wrote: [..] After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels some German politicians are again arguing that we need Vorratsdatenspeicherung (data retention, i.e. storage of all communication meta data for 6 months) in Germany to prevent such

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 03/03/15 18:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: Android has an installed base of hundreds of millions. Desktop UNIX is the exotic system here as compared to Windows, Android, etc. I have no idea about how difficult it is to launch the gpg binary

Duplicate copies of list messages when you are also addressed personally [Was: Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption]

2015-03-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Tuesday 3 March 2015 at 3:02:43 PM, in mid:ofe8a483bf.fdf79f0e-on85257dfd.00525e79-85257dfd.0052a...@theway.org, michaelquig...@theway.org wrote: I believe if you are personally addressed, the list management software doesn't send you a

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 03 March 2015 19:31:14 Robert J. Hansen wrote: This is definitely public information from the Snowden leaks. There is also quite a bit of information about other governments doing similar things. Here's one example article: If all encrypted traffic is deemed suspicious, then

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Sandeep Murthy
On 4 Mar 2015, at 07:24, Ingo Klöcker kloec...@kde.org wrote: After the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels some German politicians are again arguing that we need Vorratsdatenspeicherung (data retention, i.e. storage of all communication meta data for 6 months) in Germany to

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:24:15 +0100 Ingo Klöcker kloec...@kde.org wrote: Hello Ingo, of terror. Still this completely pants-on-head absurd policy will become reality if those German politicians get what they want. It's not just in Germany: Politicians across the world utilise similar

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Matthias Mansfeld
On 4 Mar 2015 at 7:47, Sandeep Murthy wrote: [...] Once such a data retention law is in place it is dangerous because inevitably there is a mission creep that sets in - it is not hard to imagine one day that encryption software users, maybe GPG users, will be required to disclose information

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
If you are interested, you should read the details. Did. Have. Because you are missing some key details here. In other words, you're wrong, but I'm not going to present any evidence or reasoning, I'm just going to make vague statements about how you're missing details which I am privy to.

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:09 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 03/03/15 18:29, Hans of Guardian wrote: Android has an installed base of hundreds of millions. Desktop UNIX is the exotic system here as compared to Windows, Android, etc. I have no idea about how difficult it is to launch the gpg binary

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
And that is why this thread is going on, so hopefully we can come to an agreement that there are many areas where GnuPG can be used but GPGME is a bad solution to do it. Maybe I'm a little irritable here, but -- pretty much everyone who's ever hacked on GnuPG has found situations where GPGME

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 8:52 PM, Werner Koch wrote: On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:29, h...@guardianproject.info said: It is actually more difficult to wrap GPGME in Java than to have just rewritten GPGME in Java. GPGME is a fine API for C/C++, it is a bad Sorry, but that is not your problem. The

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: This is definitely public information from the Snowden leaks. There is also quite a bit of information about other governments doing similar things. Here's one example article: If all encrypted traffic is deemed suspicious, then

RE: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
Native to what? Processor, OS? I think Peter and the group already adequately answered this: If GPGME is not providing an interface that meets Android requirements, then look into how GPGME interfaces to GPG and emulate that interface. For you to request that the interface be changed can be

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Hans, please trim your quoted material. They would need to use a specialized system, and that specialized system might then be a marker of suspicion (for example, lots of governments, including the NSA, already mark all PGP messages as

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
On Mar 3, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Different programming languages and operating systems can have very different ways of launching and handling external processes. Eh. Different operating systems, sure: that's the nature of kernels. They provide different syscalls, and

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Are any GnuPG dev people at the Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia, that is now until Saturaday? I'm arriving today. It could be useful to have a little GnuPG chat in person. Daniel Kahn Gillmor and I are both here. (And in fact, we met briefly, and much to the surprise of many people

Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Hans of Guardian
Are any GnuPG dev people at the Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia, that is now until Saturaday? I'm arriving today. It could be useful to have a little GnuPG chat in person. .hc ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Minton
Mailpile may be useful. https://mailpile.is It lets you scan in a bunch of messages, and decrypt them, and indexes them, keeping the index and message store encrypted. It has command line as well as a gui. On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 9:32 AM, René Puls rp...@kcore.de wrote: Hi, is there a

Re: Fwd: Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-03 Thread Stephan Beck
Am 03.03.2015 um 14:00 schrieb Ville Määttä: On 03.03.15 14:54, Stephan Beck wrote: as your message hasn't reached the list inspite of being addressed to it It did :). Strange, I did only receive the PM, not the listmail, so I thought it might be useful to resend it. In that case, sorry for

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Samir Nassar
On Tuesday, March 03, 2015 01:34:01 PM Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: On 03/03/2015 12:51 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor and I are both here. (And in fact, we met briefly, and much to the surprise of many people here but not to either dkg or myself, there was mutual respect,

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Non developers are also here and happy to verify OpenPGP certificates as well. And happy to buy people beer. Thanks again, Samir. :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org