Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-12 Thread David Niklas
Sorry to disappear and thanks for your answers! As for why you can't find my key. I thought that if you upload to one server it will spread it to them all. My key is at biglumber.com , I'll copy it, but I'm out of time now. Thanks again, David ___

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-12 Thread Antony Prince
On 10/12/2015 5:32 PM, David Niklas wrote: ... > As for why you can't find my key. I thought that if you upload to one > server it will spread it to them all. ... This is true in the case of servers in the sks pool[1], but not true of all keyservers. Some keyservers are privately operated and do

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 3 October 2015 at 1:04:55 PM, in

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 3 October 2015 at 11:53:26 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote: > If I commit a crime and it gets traced back to the > certificate we shared, then the authorities would have > to figure out which of

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread joe . asmodeus
"Robert J. Hansen" wrote: > The idea that OpenPGP signatures are non-repudiable is a fashionable bit > of nonsense: I am aware of no court, anywhere in the world, which has > recognized OpenPGP signatures as being non-repudiable. > Are you aware of a court, anywhere in the

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread Antony Prince
On 10/02/2015 06:55 PM, Faramir wrote: > ... > Well, you don't really need your key signed for that... at least, > not the key with your name on it. You can make a key using the name > "mysoftwarename distribution key", and use it to sign the files. Once > people start using the software, they

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Are you aware of a court, anywhere in the world, which has considered the > issue? Yes, many! Digital signatures are enforceable in U.S. courts. Non-repudiability, though, as far as I know has never been successfully argued. More to the point, I don't think it could be.

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-04 Thread joe . asmodeus
"Robert J. Hansen" wrote: > Yes, many! Digital signatures are enforceable in U.S. courts. > > Non-repudiability, though, as far as I know has never been successfully > argued. More to the point, I don't think it could be. I assume that enforcebility is determined using

Re: Unsubscription Request (was: Re: How to get your first key signed)

2015-10-04 Thread Richard Höchenberger
Hello Peter, On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > I personally > find this statement disrespectful to the people who tried to help miss > Lynn, > when she is not very approachable and offers no more explanation as to > why she can't just unsubscribe

Unsubscription Request (was: Re: How to get your first key signed)

2015-10-04 Thread Richard Höchenberger
Hello everyone, On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Crissy Lynn wrote: > Please! For the 600th time! REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST! so for whatever reason, this user is obviously unable to successfully unsubscribe from this mailing list. Will not any of the list

Re: Unsubscription Request (was: Re: How to get your first key signed)

2015-10-04 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 04/10/15 20:05, Richard Höchenberger wrote: > I find the repeated explanations of how to unsubscribe extremely unhelpful, > bordering to disrespect, since it does not provide the kind of help this > users needs. Even though I might share your sentiment on the rest of your mail, I personally

Re: Unsubscription Request (was: Re: How to get your first key signed)

2015-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 21:55:49 +0200 Peter Lebbing wrote: Hello Peter, >equally disrespectful if I hadn't been one of the people at least >trying. Whilst it's laudable that people try and help her, I doubt she's even _reading_ stuff from the list any more. *Seeing* it,

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Friday 2 October 2015 at 5:51:52 AM, in , Guan Xin wrote: > So you three will share the same reputation on the > mailing list. No, their reputations and posting

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Guan Xin
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM, MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> So you three will share the same reputation on the >> mailing list. > > No, their reputations and posting histories did not become merged. The word "will" does not infer history. You know by reputation I

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> IF YOU THINK DIGITAL SIGNATURES ARE NOTHING > THEN PLEASE KEEP AWAY FROM THIS MAILING LIST. A digital signature means surprisingly little. These are the conditions that must be met for a signature to be meaningful: it must be correct, issued from a validated[*] certificate, and belong to a

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Guan Xin
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 03/10/15 14:04, Guan Xin wrote: >> What happened to being guilty once proven guilty until >> proven innocent? >> Your key is the proof. > > Please stop trolling. > > Peter. YOU who insist that digital signatures

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Guan Xin
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 03/10/15 14:04, Guan Xin wrote: >> What happened to being guilty once proven guilty until >> proven innocent? >> Your key is the proof. > > Please stop trolling. > > Peter. "Please don't feed the troll" is an

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Crissy Lynn
Please! For the 600th time! REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST! > On Oct 3, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Guan Xin wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Peter Lebbing >> wrote: >>> On 03/10/15 14:04, Guan Xin wrote: >>> What happened to being guilty

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Guan Xin
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> IF YOU THINK DIGITAL SIGNATURES ARE NOTHING >> THEN PLEASE KEEP AWAY FROM THIS MAILING LIST. > > A digital signature means surprisingly little. It's a kind of weak proof in China, and is much more than nothing. I

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 03/10/15 14:04, Guan Xin wrote: > What happened to being guilty once proven guilty until > proven innocent? > Your key is the proof. Please stop trolling. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez
On 2015-10-03 at 20:23, Crissy Lynn wrote: > Please! For the 600th time! REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST! > If you knew how to subscribe, you should know how to unsubscribe, because: 1) If you told on this mailing list to be unsubscribed for the 600th time, then someone told you how to

RE: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Jerry
> Please! For the 600th time! REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST! Please for the 601st time, follow the directions you have been give before: List-Unsubscribe: , And while you are at

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Please! For the 600th time! REMOVE ME FROM THIS MAILING LIST! You have been told how to unsubscribe. Perhaps try following those instructions? To recap: visit this URL. http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users At the bottom you'll see text of, "To unsubscribe from Gnupg-users,

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> So you three will share the same reputation on the mailing list. Probably not. But if so, I'm fine with that: John and John are good people. And the point we were making -- which was that people invest way too much trust into unvalidated keys and/or possibly untrustworthy people -- was

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Guan Xin
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > > Sorry to just jump in here but I've been following the conversation > and this caught my eye. While checking the email address associated > with a key might not /always/ be useful (like in the case of IM, fax, >

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 5:33, Bob Henson escribió: ... > Authority key, say. But a signature of any person's key that you > have not met and positively verified is worse than useless as it > degrades the whole trust process. Someone who I had never >

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-02 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 01-10-2015 a las 8:08, Bob Henson escribió: ... >> It /is/ totally meaningless. And we should educate users that it >> is meaningless. > > Agreed. But a new user who has yet to be educated would baulk at > trusting a key signed by Genghis Khan

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Bob Henson
On 30/09/2015 8:58 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed > > More important than whether your certificate gets signed is who signs > the certificate, who they are connected to, and so on. > > Some people will sign almost anything. People who get

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 01/10/15 10:33, Bob Henson wrote: > There might be a possible exception where there is no individual > person to meet - the verification signature with software, say. When > you have downloaded the software from the same, known website for > some time it might be reasonable to sign the

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 01/10/15 11:35, Peter Lebbing wrote: > > Well, it doesn't help me at all to know that the developer of said > software indeed has "David Niklas" on his passport. That gives me no > more confidence in the integrity of the software than if he had a > different name. All I need to know is that

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Bob Henson
On 01/10/2015 11:35 am, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 01/10/15 10:33, Bob Henson wrote: >> There might be a possible exception where there is no individual >> person to meet - the verification signature with software, say. When >> you have downloaded the software from the same, known website for >>

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:33:59AM +0100, Bob Henson wrote: > On 30/09/2015 8:58 pm, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed > > > > More important than whether your certificate gets signed is who signs > > the certificate, who they are connected to,

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 01/10/15 15:18, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > To put my point more plainly: signatures on products and signatures > on keys mean different things, and to gain trust for them works in > different ways. Another case where common PGP terminology is confusing. You don't really "sign a key", you

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Whilst that is partially useful, surely it only vouches for the fact > that the postings came from the same person and not who that person is - > and as such is of very limited use. Yes. No. Somewhere in between. Some years ago a user on PGP-Basics was irate over how I refused to sign my

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Names are tremendously fluid instruments. Charles Martel, the hero of > France, didn't actually have a last name... Oh, man -- I completely forgot the great one from modernity. You can be elected President under a pseudonym. Not only that: *it's already happened*. President Ulysses Simpson

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread jonas hedman
On 15-10-01 13:05:28, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > Whilst that is partially useful, surely it only vouches for the fact > > that the postings came from the same person and not who that person is - > > and as such is of very limited use. > > Yes. No. Somewhere in between. > > Some years ago a

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
(This came just to me, not to the mailing list. I'm assuming Bob intended to reply-all and just hit the wrong button. If I'm in error, Bob, please forgive me.) > What would be no use, and possibly harmful, would be to sign that > certificate just because you had seen it a couple of times -

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Doesn't all decent e-mail clients automagically check if a signature is > legit and matches the known public key? Probably not "all", but a lot, yes. The problem comes from you can't force a user to pay attention to a warning. Some years ago a friend of mine, Peter Likarish, invented a

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Christopher Beck
On 09/30/15 19:17, David Niklas wrote: > Hello, > I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed, however I've > sent out half a dozen requests and so far I've gotten only negative > responses to the effect that I must know so-and-so and we must met in > person (considering that the

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-10-01 Thread Guan Xin
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > Some years ago a user on PGP-Basics was irate over how I refused to sign > my messages. My argument was basically the one you were using: that > nobody on the list had verified my identity and that made my

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-09-30 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed More important than whether your certificate gets signed is who signs the certificate, who they are connected to, and so on. Some people will sign almost anything. People who get a reputation for signing anything develop a reputation for

Re: How to get your first key signed

2015-09-30 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Wednesday 30 September 2015 15:58:51 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed > > More important than whether your certificate gets signed is who signs > the certificate, who they are connected to, and so on. > > Some people will sign almost

How to get your first key signed

2015-09-30 Thread David Niklas
Hello, I create for myself a gpg key and want to get it signed, however I've sent out half a dozen requests and so far I've gotten only negative responses to the effect that I must know so-and-so and we must met in person (considering that the person responds at all). Now, I'm a student (think