Re: Answer: Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-26 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 26/07/13 17:31, Jan wrote: > I'm thinking of someone how uses windows and wants to install gnupg for the > first time. How can he/she rely on OpenPGP? By running a Linux Live CD to do the verification. How does he know the CD is genuine? The thing is, somewhere the trust has to start. It's a bo

Answer: Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-26 Thread Jan
Thanks for the answers. If an attacker would modify the archive on the gnupg.org server, he would also need to change the independent archives like gmane etc. I pretty sure this will be spotted relatively soon. I did a google search for the subject of your email, in which you announced the n

Re: Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:33, takethe...@gmx.de said: > Which mailing lists are meant? Can't emails be tempered, too? If I've The GnuPG mailing list and all the mailing list archives. If an attacker would modify the archive on the gnupg.org server, he would also need to change the independent archi

Are SHA1 sums on gnupg.org checked regularly?

2013-07-25 Thread takethebus
Hi everybody, on http://www.gnupg.org/download/integrity_check.en.html SHA1 sums of gnupg software are published and it is said: "To be sure that this page has not been tampered, you may want to compare the list below with the one included in the announcement mail posted to several mailing lis