Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-27 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Tuesday 25 November 2014 at 10:39:27, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: This is supposed to be http://bugs.python.org/issue1670765, which is claimed to be resolved. Thanks for the link, I did not look into this for a few years. If it's not resolved, someone needs to let the python devs know about

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-26 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hello! I just couldn't resist the chance to play devil's advocate some more... ;-) (Werner: Sorry about the duplicate, I fat-fingered the reply-all) Werner Koch w...@gnupg.org wrote: It would be far, far more useful to have a signature for each part so instead of a binary pass/fail, you

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-26 Thread NdK
Il 26/11/2014 15:30, Bjarni Runar Einarsson ha scritto: And if we further factor in viruses and phishing and exploits and spam, then widely deployed PGP/MIME might make the real world less secure, not more. :-P Maybe including a mandatory proof-of-work that includes addressee identity might

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Lebbing
My proposal doesn't have this problem. I want the manifest to summarize the entire content of the message, including sha256 (or whatever is considered good) fingerprints of each part. 1) What does a checksum add beyond the OpenPGP Modification Detection Code (MDC)? 2) Why doesn't an attacker

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Bjarni, On Monday 24 November 2014 at 10:25:43, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: Bernhard Reiter bernh...@intevation.de wrote: And thank you for the friendly reply. :-) you are welcome! I know that some people sound a little but grumpy, but this mostly is the case, because they feel like they

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/25/2014 03:42 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote: On Monday 24 November 2014 at 10:25:43, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: It is tempting to blame the Python libraries, but the fact is that they do generate valid MIME - after swearing at Python for months, it dawned on me that it's probably the

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 09:42, bernh...@intevation.de said: Oh, what about the idea to just ship a MIME parser with GnuPG. ;) tools/gpgparsemail is such a thing. It translates a MIME structure in something easier to process with standard Unix utilities. Mainly a debugging tool but the code served

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Bjarni, On Sunday 23 November 2014 at 14:12:47, Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html thanks for working on Free Software and for discussing questions like this in the open! Note that we already support incoming PGP/MIME and have no

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Reiter bernh...@intevation.de wrote: thanks for working on Free Software and for discussing questions like this in the open! And thank you for the friendly reply. :-) The short answer (from someone that was in the project team of S/MIME implementations for mutt and

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:25, b...@pagekite.net said: installed, because if you download the raw encrypted payload for processing offline, then after decryption you end up with a fragment of MIME and tools for working with such fragments barely exist outside the world of development tools

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:12:48 +0100, Werner Koch stated: To be fair, that changed with Outlook 2010. We merely had not the resources to change GpgOL to make use of the new Outlook structure. Interesting; has there been any movement on that front? I use Outlook 2013 at my office and that would

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: Of course, today encryption is so rare that the only folks encountering this problem are nontechnical people, journalists and activists and the like, and they just give up and us something else to communicate

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Simon Ward
On 24 November 2014 12:44:31 GMT+00:00, Bjarni Runar Einarsson b...@pagekite.net wrote: Wrap in a message/rfc822 part. If PGP/MIME had proposed this from the start, then I wouldn't be able to make cheap shots about Subject lines and indeed, living with the other problems would be far more

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Simon Ward
On 24 November 2014 19:45:33 GMT+00:00, I wrote: On 24 November 2014 12:44:31 GMT+00:00, Bjarni Runar Einarsson b...@pagekite.net wrote: Wrap in a message/rfc822 part. If PGP/MIME had proposed this from the start, then I wouldn't be able to make cheap shots about Subject lines and indeed,

Re: Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-24 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hi Simon, thanks for the comments. Simon Ward si...@bleah.co.uk wrote: I currently use Thunderbird and Mutt, both of which can open emails within emails as MIME parts, but I'm fairly certain Outlook from Office 2002 coped with them too. Granted, it's still an extra step with those MUAs, but

Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
Hello gnupg-users! I am the lead dev on Mailpile, a free software e-mail client where we're doing our best to improve the usability of PGP-encrypted e-mail. I have been pondering for quite some time the relative merits of various ways of formatting otugoing encrypted mail, and this weekend I took

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Robert J. Hansen
As folks on this list have been using GPG in the real world longer than most, I would very much appreciate your feedback, experience and opinions. This subject tends to get a lot of very passionate opinions on both sides. The FAQ covers both:

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Samir Nassar
On Sunday, 2014-11-23 13:12:47 Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2014-11-21_To_PGP_MIME_Or_Not.html The tl;dr is that it might be worth dropping PGP/MIME for outgoing encrypted mail and instead use a more ad-hoc approach which interoperates with more mail clients.

Re: Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson
Hi Samir, Samir Nassar sa...@samirnassar.com wrote: I would care more about the arguments if you were able to re-state them while dropping references to legacy email clients. I don't think new mail clients have an obligation to be backwards compatible. If you, and others, think the

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Nan
Hi Bjarni, Our choice was based on compatibility and reliability. For an outgoing encrypted message, if there's an attachment GoodCrypto sends PGP/MIME, otherwise PGP in the body. We decrypt both formats. Glad to hear Mailpile is in Beta. Good luck! Nan GoodCrypto warning: Anyone could have

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 23 November 2014 13:12:47 Bjarni Runar Einarsson wrote: Hello gnupg-users! I am the lead dev on Mailpile, a free software e-mail client where we're doing our best to improve the usability of PGP-encrypted e-mail. I have been pondering for quite some time the relative merits of

Re: Pros and cons of PGP/MIME for outgoing e-mail?

2014-11-23 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Sunday 23 November 2014 18:05:03 Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson wrote: Hi Samir, Samir Nassar sa...@samirnassar.com wrote: I would care more about the arguments if you were able to re-state them while dropping references to legacy email clients. I don't think new mail clients have an