RE: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-23 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
Daniel, Checking my e-mail service. Did my response clip OK? Thanks, Bob Cavanaugh > There are a lot of proposals in this thread, and you didn't trim the quoted > text to isolate just one of them; can you be specific about which one you're > talking about? > ___

Re: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-21 Thread Jose Castillo
On Mar 20, 2015, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > If the followup is just "click this link" then i agree it's probably > encouraging bad habits. What if the suggested followup was an e-mail > reply? What if we require the verifier to sign its outbound messages, > and tell users "don't do

RE: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2015-03-20 13:43:27 -0400, Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh wrote: > One thought to add to the mix: Phishng attacks by having > unknowledgable users "click on this link" are pretty > successful. Doesn't this proposal open a new threat vector? There are a lot of proposals in this thread, and you didn'

RE: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-20 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
rs- > bounces+robertc=broadcom@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of MFPA > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 5:58 PM > To: Jose Castillo on GnuPG-Users > Subject: Re: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart > cards for the average user) > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key

Re: Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-19 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Wednesday 18 March 2015 at 6:18:57 PM, in , Jose Castillo wrote: > On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:55 PM, MFPA > <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: MFPA>> No angle brackets around the email address means no key found. JC> Good point, I’l

Email-only UIDs and verification (was: Making the case for smart cards for the average user)

2015-03-18 Thread Jose Castillo
On Mar 16, 2015, at 8:55 PM, MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: > I would urge you to > reconsider your decision to drop the angle brackets. At > least one MUA (the MUA I am using to write this message) > sends the email address enclosed in angle brackets as the > search string