Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Andrew, On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 21:38:22 +0200, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > Hagrid “solves” the vandalism problem by abandoning > decentralisation. This is not strictly true. When we think about updating keys, there are two types of information that can be updated: - Identity Information (User I

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > > On 19 Sep 2020, at 21:06, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > *With all due respect*, the problems you mention with the SKS protocol is > > IMHO absolutely solvable with hockeypuck if the > > author implements the same Mailvelope or Hagrid confirmation process for > > i

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Steffen Nurpmeso
Stefan Claas wrote in <20200919201736.2...@300baud.de>: |Robert J. Hansen wrote: |>> It is true the attacks were what brought it down, but the amount \ |>> of effort was not a "sustained |>> attack" by any measure. The invested resources are somewhere around \ |>> "couple hours and $0.00"

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 19 Sep 2020, at 21:06, Stefan Claas wrote: > > *With all due respect*, the problems you mention with the SKS protocol is > IMHO absolutely solvable with hockeypuck if the author > implements the same Mailvelope or Hagrid confirmation process for its users If you have not yet read the mega

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > > On 19 Sep 2020, at 20:05, Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > Well, there is IMHO a good replacement for SKS available, called > > hockeypuck and it is written in modern Golang. > > This is beside the point. SKS is both a protocol and an implementation. > Hockeypuck is

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-09-19 at 11:44 +0100, MFPA via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2020 at 4:32:55 PM, in > , Phil > Pennock via Gnupg-users wrote:- > > > > keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME for > > hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net -- which is > > now returning zero results. > > > The GnuPG manual's descri

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Andrew Gallagher
> On 19 Sep 2020, at 20:05, Stefan Claas wrote: > > Well, there is IMHO a good replacement for SKS available, called > hockeypuck and it is written in modern Golang. This is beside the point. SKS is both a protocol and an implementation. Hockeypuck is a reimplementation of the same protocol an

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Stefan Claas wrote in > <20200919201736.2...@300baud.de>: > |Robert J. Hansen wrote: > |>> It is true the attacks were what brought it down, but the amount \ > |>> of effort was not a "sustained > |>> attack" by any measure. The invested resources are somewhere

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > It is true the attacks were what brought it down, but the amount of effort > > was not a "sustained > > attack" by any measure. The invested resources are somewhere around "couple > > hours and $0.00". > > I'm not sure that's true. [...] I think it does not matter

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> It is true the attacks were what brought it down, but the amount of effort > was not a "sustained > attack" by any measure. The invested resources are somewhere around "couple > hours and $0.00". I'm not sure that's true. The keyserver poisoning attack was demonstrated first by EFF's Micah Le

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-19 Thread MFPA via Gnupg-users
Hi On Friday 18 September 2020 at 4:32:55 PM, in , Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users wrote:- > keys.gnupg.net is a CNAME for > hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net -- which is > now returning zero results. The GnuPG manual's description [0] of the Dirmngr option "--keyserver name" still ends with "If no

Re: In case you use OpenPGP on a smartphone ...

2020-09-19 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: > Stefan Claas wrote: > > [...] > > > > (btw, > > > There is, [afaik], no protection available in GnuPG > > > against a Clairvoyancy attack vector on an encrypted file even in an > > > air-gapped computer, > > > and there is a rumour that any Witch or Wizard can instantl