Re: GnuPG public key vulnerability?

2017-10-31 Thread David Shaw
On Oct 31, 2017, at 8:10 PM, murphy wrote: > > I got a signed notification from facebook (good signature, enigmail) > that claims my GnuPG generated public key has a "recently disclosed > vulnerability". This is the full text: > > We have detected that the OpenPGP key on your Facebook profile m

devuan jessie gpg 2.2.x thunderbird/apparmor/enigmail rules

2017-10-31 Thread Fulano Diego Perez
any suggestions to complete apparmor rules to enable all functionality for a /usr/local gpg install with thunderbird/gpg/enigmail ? currently appended rules below to the default thunderbird profile allow mostly all functionality except i cannot enable the commented out rules otherwise enigmail do

Re: GnuPG public key vulnerability?

2017-10-31 Thread Jonathan Millican
Hi Murphy, This email refers to the ROCA vulnerability (https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/ public/papers/rsa_ccs17), which affects a number of hardware devices including some versions of the Yubikey 4-nano (https://www.yubico.com/ keycheck/). I believe Yubico are offering to replace affected Yubikeys. One

Re: permission denied searching keys WAS: [gpg 2.2.x devuan jessie no TOFU TLS]

2017-10-31 Thread Fulano Diego Perez
later: im not sure what to do now most functionality seems ok except for searching/importing keys from keyservers i can see my local pub/pri keyrings Fulano Diego Perez: > > > Werner Koch: >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:00, fulanope...@cryptolab.net said: >> >>> checking for LIBGNUTLS... no >> >>

Re: GnuPG public key vulnerability?

2017-10-31 Thread Fraser Tweedale
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 08:10:45PM -0400, murphy wrote: > I got a signed notification from facebook (good signature, enigmail) > that claims my GnuPG generated public key has a "recently disclosed > vulnerability".  This is the full text: > > We have detected that the OpenPGP key on your Facebook

GnuPG public key vulnerability?

2017-10-31 Thread murphy
I got a signed notification from facebook (good signature, enigmail) that claims my GnuPG generated public key has a "recently disclosed vulnerability".  This is the full text: We have detected that the OpenPGP key on your Facebook profile may be susceptible to attacks due to a recently disclosed

Hacking off-card backup to be on-disk key (was: Importing an off-card backup of the encryption key of a Nitrokey fails with "no user ID")

2017-10-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
Hi Ralf, On 25/10/17 23:29, Ralf wrote: > I was hoping for something simple and I think eventually this should be > simple; nevertheless I would make use of such a workaround / would be > thankful for such an example :) I fiddled around with a test card. Prepare for a wall of text. I created a t

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Lachlan Gunn
Le 2017-10-31 à 13:01, Peter Lebbing a écrit : > Revocations are done by the primary key. If the user has lost the secret > primary, they should fetch their revocation certificate, not fool around with > the subkeys ;-). (Incidentally, this is why you don't need revocation > certificates for indivi

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/10/17 11:56, Lachlan Gunn wrote: > The only difficulty is when the owner doesn't have the secret key > anymore, and so can't re-revoke it. Then you might want to keep it from > being disseminated further. Revocations are done by the primary key. If the user has lost the secret primary, they

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Lachlan Gunn
Le 2017-10-31 à 12:48, Peter Lebbing a écrit : > Having read my follow-up, do you now agree? If the subkey is revoked as > "compromised", all is well and good? I can't see any reason why this should be problematic. And for signatures that you know for sure are pre-ROCA, it makes sense to keep the

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/10/17 11:45, Lachlan Gunn wrote: > No, I don't think so I was already writing a follow-up but was momentarily blocked on the right way to phrase some of it :-). Our mails crossed. Having read my follow-up, do you now agree? If the subkey is revoked as "compromised", all is well and good? P

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/10/17 11:39, Peter Lebbing wrote: > And yes, the subkey should also be revoked with reason "compromised", for the > reason you state. And only now the penny drops. I suppose a system checking for ROCA might rightfully take offense at a subkey revoked as "superseded" or "lost"[1], because wi

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Lachlan Gunn
Le 2017-10-31 à 12:39, Peter Lebbing a écrit : > To clarify, do you agree if I reword the paragraph you contest as: > > But, I agree that the reverse is not true: a compromised subkey does not > compromise the primary key in any way I can think of. And systems > checking for ROCA should not reject

Re: Impact of ROCA (CVE-2017-15361) in subkey vs. private key?

2017-10-31 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 31/10/17 01:08, Lachlan Gunn wrote: > I'm not sure that this is 100% correct.  The first part is true, but > signatures > of a key that has been revoked because it was superseded or lost are valid up > to > the revocation date, whereas ROCA-affected keys are compromised to some degree > and so