Re: WKD: conveying intent of encrypt-by-default?

2022-10-13 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
SMTP is not end-to-end, but it turns out to be "good enough" for most daily usage, particularly within a domain or with a few business partners. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

WKD: conveying intent of encrypt-by-default?

2022-10-03 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
: email-encrypt-by-default: yes email-encrypt-by-default: no and then if not present, then the intent is unspecified. We would then add "email-encrypt-by-default: no" and then the WKD draft could clarify as an implementation consideration that "availability of the key does

Re: --auto-key-retrieve fails for some keys

2021-11-02 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
he only key I can find for 91C1262F01EB8D39 claims to have been made in 2020 and yet is using SHA1 for the self-signature. That is worrying. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: trust-model and federated lookups

2021-10-25 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
thub.com/canterberry/nodejs-keys `git describe --tags --always` for the field (haven't yet had to escape colons in tags) public-acco...@pennock-tech.com=${_MM_DD}:${SERVICE}:${ACCOUNT} -- eg, github:foo -> <https://githu

trust-model and federated lookups

2021-10-22 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
back if there's nothing better. I might even just want `trust-model pgp+federated` if I'm feeling more cautious. But in reality tofu helps a little. Does this make sense to people? Is there a security problem with this? Does this seem like a reasonable feature request? Thanks, -Phil

Re: WKD docs on the wiki, restructuring. Feedback on forUsers page

2021-09-30 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
af3anhb75xpzx9m6hgw6589ozf1b9?l=spam' | gpg --import works. So you return the data just fine to curl, but when dirmngr asks for it, it's getting a "403 Forbidden" response. That smells to me of a web-server which is trying to block user-agents it dislikes.

Re: Why is --auto-key-locate only for encrypting?

2021-09-01 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
mbiguous). If you're looking up purely by key id, then you need a working global key-lookup facility. It doesn't federate. If you look up by email address, then federation becomes available and efforts such as WKD pay off. -Phil

Re: RSS/Atom for the GnuPG blog?

2021-01-22 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
hings that _can_ be done without it, but life is just easier when the support is baked in for the common interchange format. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: RSS/Atom for the GnuPG blog?

2021-01-22 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
pdates make it across to the doc repo in a timely manner, but it's still a useful feed: the docs site is almost entirely updated only for new releases so this is high signal/noise. I have this in my #feed-releases channel. -Phil ___ Gnupg-u

Re: Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-11-18 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
and don't know if the current version will also fix preference lists. (I look forward to this sort of functionality being part of GnuPG natively, as part of key lifecycle maintenance for long-lived keys.) -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-11-18 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
gital Signature Algorithm) Public-key size: 1024 bits Creation time: 2001-08-03 17:34:53 UTC UserID: Phil Pennock [censored email address in this list post] Invalid: Policy rejected non-revocation signature (PositiveCertification) because: SHA1 is not cons

Re: Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-11-17 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
configuration files reveals a lot of problems and in day-to-day use you will have to periodically comment it back out again. I know, because I've been doing this since January. It has helped me with pushing people I need to exchange private mail with to update their keys. -Phi

Re: Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-11-02 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-11-02 at 13:49 +0100, Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:10, Phil Pennock said: > > recipient. That's fine. I'd rather create pressure for people to fix > > their systems to use modern cryptography than cater to their brokenness &g

Avoid recipient-compatibility SHA1

2020-10-29 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
ix their systems to use modern cryptography than cater to their brokenness with sensitive messages. Thanks, -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

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 re

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-18 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
ot;. Within a few years we _might_ be able to get SRV-like distribution for HTTPS with the proposed new `HTTPS` RR-type for DNS: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-svcb-https but that's not something you can rely on today. -Phil ___ G

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-18 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
s nothing which fits all needs, but various solutions for some scenarios. See my first reply in this thread with suggestions of particular servers. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-18 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
On 2020-09-18 at 10:08 +0200, Franck Routier (perso) wrote: > Le jeudi 17 septembre 2020 à 18:13 -0400, Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users > a écrit : > > If publishing keys, I do recommend setting up WKD for your > > domain, which helps a little. > > What is the status

Re: Which keyserver

2020-09-17 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
us with Ubuntu's and Dan Gillmor's (DKG's) mayfirst.org server. You can still look over https://sks-keyservers.net/status/ to see if there are any working there, if the pool hostnames are broken for you at the time you check. The stat

Re: how to suppress new "insecure passphrase" warning

2020-09-17 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
-passphrase-pattern to point to a dictionary -- a common security pattern for 8-12 "random" character passwords but unlikely to be helpful with a diceware approach. There are other relevant options in the gpg-agent man-page in the area around those options, worth reviewing. -Phil _

Re: gpg-agent is older than us

2020-08-21 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
7;s one of the bullet points for the `optgnupg-gnupg` package. It talks about how to change the gpg-agent which systemd will launch for you. Those are the steps I use on an Ubuntu system to swap out /usr/bin/gpg-agent in favour of /opt/gnupg/bin/gpg-agent. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: WKD - .onion redirects mapping

2020-08-04 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
g` as a set of TXT records could provide one domain each which are equivalent. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

WKD - .onion redirects mapping

2020-07-27 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
;m thinking that with dirmngr already having some Tor support, it's a better place to automatically do so. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Multiple UIDs or multiple master keys?

2020-07-14 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
raphy of one key or two keys. All of this is around the social and legal constructs within which any keys get used. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: WKS server problems

2020-03-21 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
which are still safe but which don't use calls which cause Linux to get its knickers in a twist about too many calls for entropy. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Re: Help me on this

2020-03-02 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
something is not configured right to invoke the pop-up correctly. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Help me on this

2020-03-01 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
don't have that sub-key, you'll need to find it and import it too. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: How to create an authinfo.gpg encrypted file with a GitHub token

2020-02-26 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
s://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/emacs>. (It's been 25 years since I last seriously used Emacs so I can't comment on that, and I don't actually use pass myself, as I independently created the same general thing in Python at about the same time as Pass was create, but th

Re: swdb.lst problem

2020-02-10 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
Friday, November 8, 2019 at 7:39:18 PM Expires On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 7:39:18 PM Regards, -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re-sign subkey binding with changed digest?

2020-01-08 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
bkeys, I'm looking really at signing subkeys: it seems useful to make sure that existing signatures can continue to be verified. How do I re-sign the subkey binding for a [S] signing subkey, to keep the same key but make the association from the main key be with SHA256 please? Thanks, -Ph

Re: Reason string revocation

2019-12-27 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
bit to show that I don't think it's any of my tuning causing this. GnuPG 2.2.17 -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Testing WKD setup?

2019-07-08 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
x27;t per the spec, so gives false negatives. It only supports the 'direct' method, where the key has to be hosted on `example.org` instead of `openpgpkey.example.org`. Just a limitation to be aware of. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-

Re: New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

2019-07-03 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
y except via NAT state for established connections. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

2019-07-02 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
/ layout, so I gave up and went with HKP, at least pointing folks towards what at the time was the more reliable option, the HA pool. Using http:/https: didn't help, HKP was still used. I got around it later by specifying a `finger:` URL. :) It's been 30-40 yea

Re: Infinite loop?

2019-06-25 Thread Phil Pennock via Gnupg-users
rs or the local signatures for "yeah, I grabbed these fingerprints from a web-page, I'll trust them locally but won't attest to them publicly". -Phil signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Hostname of key server pool disappeared? hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

2019-03-18 Thread Phil Pennock
ks-devel/2019-03/msg00060.html It appears that CRL expiration led to all HKPS hosts failing verification so they all dropped out of the pool. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Several GnuPG instances, with their corresponding agents

2019-03-11 Thread Phil Pennock
the responsibility of that account to manage the directory. If one account is trying to use both system and current GnuPG, that's a logic error elsewhere which should be cleaned up. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Choice of ECC curve on usb token

2018-06-29 Thread Phil Pennock
s not a concern, you're probably looking at Curve25519 and, if eager, keeping half an eye on the news about post-quantum cryptography for the next step after that. If you need more specific guidance than that, pay a professional cryptographer

dirmngr Windows DNS resolution of pools (Re: Problem refreshing keys)

2018-06-15 Thread Phil Pennock
h just the hostname shown in that table. Configure a keyserver which works for you until such time as GnuPG's DNS resolution on Windows manages to handle pools correctly. Werner? -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Problem refreshing keys

2018-06-13 Thread Phil Pennock
ool.sks-keyservers.net S # . hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net S # . --> 1* S # 1 4 216.66.15.2 (hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net) OK I suspect that you have an old dirmngr and the problems are fixed with a newer release of gpg4win. -Phil _

Re: Problem refreshing keys

2018-06-12 Thread Phil Pennock
dark" approach would be to use: KEYSERVER --dead IP.ADD.RE.SS to mark the one with a "*" as "bad" and see what happens. If that fixes it, then you know that the IP address which was "responding" and so selected was actually failing. You can drop a note to sks-

Re: Forward gpg-agent to container

2018-06-11 Thread Phil Pennock
ion is warranted when using the `z` mount option, you'll need to test carefully to make sure that GnuPG _outside_ of Docker still works afterwards. (If not ... `gpgconf --kill gpg-agent` and continue on). -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Forward gpg-agent to container

2018-06-05 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2018-06-05 at 17:17 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: > Shell 2: > $ docker run -it --rm -v /var/run/pdp.gnupg:/root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh > alpine > / # chmod 0700 /root/.gnupg && chown root:root /root/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent > / # apk update && apk add --no-cache gnupg I

Re: Forward gpg-agent to container

2018-06-05 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2018-06-05 at 20:18 +0200, Peter Lebbing wrote: > Have you tried by hand whether the concept of communicating over a > socket to a container works at all? You could use socat to create a > socket and communicate, one socat on your host system and one inside the > container. > > I have no experi

Re: A Solution for Sending Messages Safely from EFAIL-safe Senders to EFAIL-unsafe Receivers

2018-05-23 Thread Phil Pennock
crypted message. Advocating for MUAs to default to "efail-proofed memoryhole format" for encrypted mail _might_ gain traction? -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: A postmortem on Efail

2018-05-20 Thread Phil Pennock
t if there's anything sane the MTA side can do to help, I can work to get Exim doing it. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. -Phil signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Is signing a file with multiple keys possible

2018-03-23 Thread Phil Pennock
hould be able to grab the famous poem from the URL above and verify my signatures upon the text. -Phil -BEGIN PGP ARMORED FILE- Comment: Use "gpg --dearmor" for unpacking iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEq4gt1kA1okdY9paI0jG9pqefzuAFAlq1nX4ACgkQ0jG9pqef zuAKlgf+P+trdLPknA/sNy

Re: Stupid Symantec

2018-03-16 Thread Phil Susi
On 3/16/2018 9:16 AM, Steven Maddox wrote: > I get the impression they want the decryption happening on the end users > machines. > > Presumably so that if any users got the idea to just 'upload' a file > online - it'd be the encrypted version of that file.  Course someone can > just get around th

Re: Stupid Symantec

2018-03-16 Thread Phil Susi
On 3/16/2018 9:15 AM, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > How does that work when the decryption key is on the client? I don't think it is on the client. The private key is stored on the server and is decrypted when you log in. At least I think that's how it works. I've never actually tried using EFS on

Re: Stupid Symantec

2018-03-16 Thread Phil Susi
On 3/16/2018 4:11 AM, Steven Maddox wrote: > Yeah I just use LUKS on my PC to protect local files, but this is (as > above) for files on SMB/Windows shares... sorry for not mentioning that > sooner. I believe you can enable EFS on the windows server and it will handle decrypting the file before se

Re: Stupid Symantec

2018-03-15 Thread Phil Susi
On 3/15/2018 11:26 AM, Steven Maddox wrote: > The desktop portion of that software has an OS/kernel level driver that > watches if you're trying to open a PGP encrypted file... then decrypts > it on the fly and finally passes it to the application that'd normally > open it. > Anyway I can ei

Re: GnuPG 2.2.4 on Windows - problems accessing some HKPS keyservers

2018-01-23 Thread Phil Pennock
address the issue seem to focus on SRV records, so repaired one way in which the problem manifested, but either didn't fix the underlying issue, or there's been a regression. I've opened a new ticket for the maintainers to track this. https://dev.gnupg.org/T3755 -Phil

Re: failed to convert unprotected openpgp key: Checksum error

2018-01-22 Thread Phil Pennock
to me like it really is an incorrect checksum, exposing unfortunate edge-case handling in GnuPG. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: DOS attack?

2018-01-17 Thread Phil Susi
On 1/15/2018 3:00 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > It's from 2003. It doesn't need modernization. > > Keyservers are designed the way they are for a reason. If keyservers > *never ever discard or modify existing data*, then you can easily > identify any code which theoretically might be able to dis

Re: "right to be forgotten" nonsense

2018-01-16 Thread Phil Susi
On 1/15/2018 10:24 PM, listo factor via Gnupg-users wrote: > If there is merit to the principle that an Internet server operator > can not keep publicly serving private data over the objections of > the owner (the same as today, after many battles, he can no longer There isn't merit. It became pu

Re: is there a preferred order to building dependencies for gnupg2

2018-01-10 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2018-01-10 at 11:39 +, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > On 01/10/2018 09:25 AM, Henry wrote: > > There are five libraries required to build gnupg2: libgpg-error, > > libgcrypt, libassuan, libksba and npth. > > > > Is there a preferred order in which they should be built? > > Libgpg-error shou

Re: Performance regression, 2.2.3/recent?

2017-12-05 Thread Phil Pennock
safely lose this, right? Thanks, -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Performance regression, 2.2.3/recent?

2017-12-03 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2017-12-03 at 12:19 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 02:20, gnupg-us...@spodhuis.org said: > > Anyone else seeing major slowdowns with keyring dumping in recent GnuPG > > on Linux? > > By recent do you mean 2.2.3 or a Git version (2.2 branch or master)? 2.2.3. The dump on Linux

Performance regression, 2.2.3/recent?

2017-12-02 Thread Phil Pennock
3.5.16-pt2 ii optgnupg-libassuan 2.4.5-pt1 ii optgnupg-libgcrypt 1.8.1-pt1 ii optgnupg-libgpg-error 1.27-pt1 ii optgnupg-libksba1.3.5-pt1 ii optgnupg-nettle 3.4-pt1 ii optgnupg-npth

Re: Complete Ubuntu compile of GnuPG

2017-11-22 Thread Phil Pennock
he https://public-packages.pennock.tech/ packages (Xenial, Trusty, Jessie, Stretch; amd64; all installing into /opt/gnupg) using Vagrant on macOS, VirtualBox driver. The repos are maintained with aptly.) -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-use

Re: Why does import refuse to merge a new subkey?

2017-11-02 Thread Phil Susi
On 11/2/2017 3:04 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 02/11/17 16:58, Phil Susi wrote: >> Why is this? > > What version of GnuPG is this? It's a well-known limitation of GnuPG 1.4 > and 2.0, but my 2.1.18 allows me to add secret subkeys through --import. Looks like I've sti

Why does import refuse to merge a new subkey?

2017-11-02 Thread Phil Susi
Whenever my subkeys expire and I have to generate a new one, I try to import the keys on my less secure machines and gpg stupidly refuses to update the already existing key with the new subkey. I have to delete the key, then import to get the new subkey into the keyring. Why is this? __

Re: Generating a new keypair through GnuPG 2.x in Ubuntu 16.0.4

2017-10-12 Thread Phil Dobbin
nths... I'm using the stock version that's installed with 16.04.3 LTS & have encountered no problems at all FWIW. Cheers, Phil. -- "For 50 years it was like being chained to an idiot" Kingsley Amis on his loss of libido when he turned fifty https://www.linuxc

Re: Questions about particular use cases (integrity verification w/o private key, add E flag to primary key, import secp256k1 key)

2017-08-28 Thread Phil Pennock
firm that Bob _can_ decrypt it, since that goes into a lot of assumptions about competence, not lost keys, possession of devices, whatever. But in normal use, it'll tell you if Bob should be able to decrypt it. Privacy-sensitive environments concerned about metadata analysis will set the `throw-

Re: Obtaining sig2 and sig3 signatures

2017-05-30 Thread Phil Pennock
describe. It's unfortunate really that the default is to make public attestations, telling the world "trust me, this key belongs to this person" instead of locally useful data and then, only once someone knows what they're doing, offering them the option to act as a No

Re: Don't send encrypted messages to random users

2017-05-30 Thread Phil Pennock
rop everything and help me out Right Now. Not unless lives are on the line and to date, I've been fortunate that they never have been. It's called good manners. -Phil signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Stripping expired subkey during export?

2017-03-03 Thread Phil Pennock
- might this be your problem? > I have not done any these, though. Ugh, yes. Thanks, I explored everything I could see and kept running into roadblocks. Thanks for clearing a new path through. -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Stripping expired subkey during export?

2017-03-02 Thread Phil Pennock
ducate me please? Is there a reason beyond "nobody asked for it yet" why there's no "expired" filter for drop-subkey/drop-sig? Thanks, -Phil signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Real-world current impact of disabling SHA1

2017-02-24 Thread Phil Pennock
hing about disabling SHA1 does nasty things to GnuPG's performance, as scanning two more depth levels takes 12 minutes instead of 222 minutes for just two depth levels Regards, -Phil signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Gnupg-user

Re: Proof of possession when exchanging keys

2013-11-15 Thread Phil Calvin
print and ID separately > then, in order to verify control of email address and private key, send the > signed ID encrypted to the provided email address. > > > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Phil Calvin wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA

Proof of possession when exchanging keys

2013-11-15 Thread Phil Calvin
decrypt an encrypted message using the key in question. This would ensure they have access to the secret half of the keypair in question. Is verifying proof of possession necessary or good practice, or is checking fingerprints (and, when you don't know the person, photo ID or similar) enough?

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net issues

2013-03-01 Thread Phil Pennock
try an HTTP/1.1 POST with an Expect: header and exclude from the main pools any server where this fails. (Similarly, need to figure out what to do about nginx/FreeBSD/KQUEUE for GnuPG curl-shim ... harder to deterministically detect. For myself, I might suck it up and rebuild without KQUEU

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net issues

2013-02-28 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2013-02-28 at 09:12 +0100, Niels Laukens wrote: > On 2013-02-28 00:50, Phil Pennock wrote: > > The best fix is to use gpg with a real cURL library. > > I'm currently using a downloaded binary from gpgtools.org. I don't see > libcurl in the list of shared objects

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net issues (was: Questions about OpenPGP best practices)

2013-02-28 Thread Phil Pennock
iably fixed going forward. (2) means people encountering it can work around it now. (1) sucks, because I for one like the signalling done and the model used in TCP and used by the GnuPG developers. It's very clear, "we're not going to send anything else". Unfortunat

Re: 1.4.12 beta installer for Windows

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Pennock
on: libgpg-error, libgcrypt, libksba, libassuan, pinentry, pth, gpg-agent, dirmngr, libusb-compat Not installed https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/commits/master/Library/Formula/gnupg2.rb "Not installed" because I didn't install with brew. Myself, I&

OT: "PGP Keyservers" Google+ Community

2012-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
08794654 or redirector: http://gplus.to/keyservers Regards, -Phil, occasional SKS coder and pesterer of GnuPG devs on HKP issues ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-12-07 Thread Phil Pennock
I...L 0x0040: e6e7 24a3 3b1e 017c 4361 6368 652d 436f ..$.;..|Cache-Co 0x0050: 6e74 726f 6c3a 206e 6f2d 6361 6368 650d ntrol:.no-cache. 0x0060: 0a50 7261 676d 613a 206e 6f2d 6361 6368 .Pragma:.no-cach 0x0070: 650d 0a0d 0a e

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Pennock
keytest.spodhuis.org Command:GET * HTTP proxy is "null" * HTTP URL is "http://keytest.spodhuis.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&options=mr&search=0x403043153903637F"; * HTTP auth is "null" * HTTP method is GET gpg: key 0x403043153903637F: "Phil Pen

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2012-12-02 at 10:23 -0500, David Shaw wrote: > On Oct 6, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > > GnuPG folks (since this is cross-posted, if my mail makes it through): > > > > there is a bug in GnuPG's SRV handling, I've identified where I think > > it

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-12-03 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2012-12-02 at 23:46 -0500, David Shaw wrote: > I tried talking to keytest.spodhuis.org to test, but all the ports > returned in the SRV were not listening. Or at least, not listening to > me ;) *blush* Fixed, sorry. -Phil ___ Gnupg-user

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-10-07 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2012-10-06 at 22:20 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: > So, there's a `port` and an `opt->port`; the SRV lookups set `opt->port` > but not `port`, while the URL given to curl uses `port`. > > It seems like changing 537 to: > port = opt->port = newport >

Re: [Sks-devel] SRV records and HKPS requests

2012-10-07 Thread Phil Pennock
uest,":"); 270 strcat(request,port); 271 strcat(request,opt->path); [...] 294 curl_easy_setopt(curl,CURLOPT_URL,request); So, there's a `port` and an `opt->port`; the SRV lookups set `opt->port` but not `port`, while the URL given to curl uses `port`. It seems like changing 537 to: port = opt->port = newport should fix it as a stop-gap. -Phil pgpuY3TNNNPWS.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Protecting IDs at a key signing party

2012-01-18 Thread Phil Benchoff
rest just uploaded them to a keyserver. I can't be critical of anyone who did that. It seems to be the most common practice. We are very lucky to have an open standard (OpenPGP) and a free/open-source implementation (GnuPG) to work with. The really hard problems are trying to get people to

Re: MS Exchange server corrupting PGP-MIME emails

2011-10-31 Thread Phil Brooke
ils I sent earlier) appears to be attachments. Overall, it makes signed emails just so unreliable. But I guess we already knew that. Cheers, Phil. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: MS Exchange server corrupting PGP-MIME emails

2011-10-31 Thread Phil Brooke
Hi, On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Jerry wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:07:53 +0100 (BST) Phil Brooke articulated: Nothing relating to encrypted data, but I've seen an MS Exchange system rewrite signed emails (both PGP/MIME and S/MIME) with the obvious effect of causing failed verifications. Coul

Re: MS Exchange server corrupting PGP-MIME emails

2011-10-28 Thread Phil Brooke
27;ve seen an MS Exchange system rewrite signed emails (both PGP/MIME and S/MIME) with the obvious effect of causing failed verifications. Cheers, Phil. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Signature validation in a script

2011-09-05 Thread Phil Benchoff
t; What you want is gpgv or gpgv2: That seems to do what I want if I include --homedir /dev/null. No default keyring and the environment variable for GNUPGHOME is ignored. Thanks! Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gn

Signature validation in a script

2011-09-05 Thread Phil Benchoff
like this will work with both gpg and gpg2 even though all of the options aren't necessary. Are there any other options I should use? Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: per-user data signatures [was: Re: multiple keys vs multiple identities]

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Brooke
similar to, for example, the policy URL signature subpacket.) Thanks, Phil. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: scdaemon loses connection when I unplug/replug a crypto-stick

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Benchoff
with no reader serialno scdaemon[7573]: PC/SC RESET failed: invalid value (0x80100011) ERR 100663404 Card error # Crypto Stick inserted reset OK serialno ERR 100663404 Card error It appears that once scdaemon decides there is no reader, it needs to be restarted. Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Someone has harvested my address

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Reynolds
ing. > As well, anything sent to a public list like this may be archived on > web pages, inviting harvest for spam. Yes, that was another thing I knew could happen. It just strikes me as a little strange that this one was the first hit. -- Phil Reynolds o mail:

Someone has harvested my address

2008-09-07 Thread Phil Reynolds
just change this address? -- Phil Reynolds o mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 66, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http

Re: Wildcards in uids?

2008-06-04 Thread Phil Reynolds
Therefore, should it prove necessary, I will presumably have to add such uids as necessary to the key. On the whole, I think this will probably only rarely, if ever, be needed. But, if it is, at least I know now. -- Phil Reynolds o mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tin

Re: Wildcards in uids?

2008-06-04 Thread Phil Reynolds
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:08:40PM -0400, David Shaw wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 04:13:00PM +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote: > > > > I have recently started using suffixed e-mail addresses and am wondering > > if I might need to add suffixes I am using to my key - or if I c

Wildcards in uids?

2008-06-04 Thread Phil Reynolds
catch-all is possible, please advise me as to how I need to specify it. -- Phil Reynolds o mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |L_ \ / Web: http://www.tinsleyviaduct.com/phil/ (_)- \/ Waltham 66, Emley Moor 69, Droitwich 79, Windows 95 ___ Gnupg-users

Using notations on data signatures

2008-02-05 Thread Phil Brooke
e notation part of the signed data (whereas the comment headers aren't) so that tampering with the notation is evident? Thanks, Phil. __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http

Re: Can I see the checksum when I sign/verify a file?

2006-05-04 Thread Phil Helms
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not use MD5? - -- Phil Helms [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Shaw wrote: > >> And how can I choose the hash method (sha1 or md5) when signing? > > --personal-digest-prefs takes a list of hash algorithms. It will pick > the first

is clearsigned text also vulnerable to recent injection of unsigned data problem ?

2006-03-29 Thread phil
Hi, A quick question regarding the recently discovered vulnerability to the injection of unsigned data : >From the description, it wasn't completely clear to me whether this vulnerability also applied to verification of clearsigned text. Does it? Thanks

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2079:merge_selfsigs)

2006-03-02 Thread Phil Pennock
ys using normal sigs, it wouldn't have any effect; I'm rather surprised that a keyring problem could be caused by it. Thanks, -Phil ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug (getkey.c:2079:merge_selfsigs)

2006-03-01 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2006-02-28 at 13:07 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok, now it works, but can you send me any information that could be > interesting? For example how you create the 0xC9541FB2, It's a public key for someone else, imported with --recv-key, because it's in a trust path I need. I do have a ra

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