Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-23 Thread Misha Shnurapet
Am I signing my messages correctly? -- Misha Shnurapet °v° I ♥ Linux /(_)\ Download the free operating system here: ^ ^ http://fedoraproject.org signature.asc Description: Эта часть сообщения подписана цифровой подписью -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Misha Shnurapet wrote: Am I signing my messages correctly? Yes. It shows as a untrusted good signature. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-23 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: [please excuse delay in replying. i was waiting for noise level to drop] Needham and Schroeder famously said that anyone who thinks his problem will be solved by cryptography hasn't understood his problem, and hasn't understood cryptography. i am not familiar

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 14:04:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But what G did was much worse. He insisted on putting a little bomb in his mail that causes a number of us to just plain hang for periods that are measured in minutes, not just once, but for every message that

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/14/2009 8:24 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 14:04:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But what G did was much worse. He insisted on putting a little bomb in his mail that causes a number of us to just

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/14/09 11:17, quoth David: On 7/14/2009 8:24 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 14:04:11 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: But what G did was much worse. He insisted on putting a little bomb in his mail that

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:17:05 -0400, David dgbo...@comcast.net wrote: My request, it was never a demand in spite of what others have said, was to publish the key or not sign to the list. And I used the word 'please' twice. Several users have agreed with me. And several users have agree

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 18:14:57 -0400, Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The Enigmail package gets added to Thunderbird and provides the human interface to GnuPG. Enigmail does provide a setting on a per addressbook entry for whether messages sent

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 09:49, quoth Aaron Konstam: I guess it is a matter of philosophy. I think signing mail to a list is a waste of time and space. On the fedora list what difference does it make if the poster is really who he says he is, I could

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 19:05, quoth Rick Sewill: My thought is to pgp sign my mail. Those who know me, who have spoken to me over the phone and have received mail from me, can save my signature from my mail and know the mail, and any future mail with that

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 12:47, quoth Les: Hi, Steven, The point about the envelope is a good one. It is a point I never considered. But g's attitude doesn't make me fond of signing, in fact it does more to discourage users of messaging services to

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Rick Sewill
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:22 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 19:05, quoth Rick Sewill: My thought is to pgp sign my mail. Those who know me, who have spoken to me over the phone and have received mail from me, can save my

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Fennix
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Rick Sewill rsew...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:22 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/09 19:05, quoth Rick Sewill: My thought is to pgp sign my mail. Those who know me, who have

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 13:03, quoth Rick Sewill: Steve, when I click on your signature, I can extract your public DSA public key, F0BE3724, see that it is verified, because you registered it with the pgp servers (Thank you for registering!), but untrusted by

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Fennix wrote: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution to a problem at hand. For some to try and to tar him with the association/way of doing things such as Karl definitely is in

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aaron Konstam wrote: I guess it is a matter of philosophy. I think signing mail to a list is a waste of time and space. On the fedora list what difference does it make if the poster is really who he says he is, I could understand if the poster was selling me something but any ideas he or

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 13:43, quoth Fennix: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution to a problem at hand. For some to try and to tar him with the

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Steven W. Orr wrote: Sometimes people do things on the net that are considered to be minor violations of social protocols. This is all a part of being civilized. Posting html, top posting, not reducing quoted text, these are all examples of how people can get legitimately irritated. Other

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/13/2009 1:43 PM, Fennix wrote: big snip Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution to a problem at hand. For some to try and to tar

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/13/09 14:21, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: You know, there is a simple fix to this - someone that has G's public key could upload it to a keyserver. evilNow, if someone wanted to be nasty, they could upload a fake public key with his email

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread g
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: The whole point of PGP-style signatures is the web of trust. If you true. tho, if you email someone and they send you their pgp sig, then you can feel reasonably certain that pgp sig is from them. The point of key servers is not to verify anything, it's to make keys

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread g
Fennix wrote: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution i thank you for your support. even if it was 'text/html'. :) i am not aware of 'karl', from what you say about him, i appreciate

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/13/09 14:21, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: You know, there is a simple fix to this - someone that has G's public key could upload it to a keyserver. evilNow, if someone wanted to be nasty, they could upload a fake public key with his email address. Then if there is

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 18:53 +, g wrote: if you are still in question as to advantage of pgp sigs, i would be happy to look for it and post it so that all can see that there are times when having a pgp sig does work. Whether it works or not is not the issue. The issue is what does it work

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 19:17:48 +, g gel...@bellsouth.net wrote: Fennix wrote: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this. G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution i thank you for your support. even if it was

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: It was a multipart message. You should be able to override the sender's preference and display text/plain in preference to text/html (or just not display text/html parts inline). That way even though the extra bandwidth is wasted, you at least get to see the part

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertsonmik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/13/09 14:21, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: You know, there is a simple fix to this - someone that has G's public key could upload it to a keyserver. evilNow, if someone wanted to be

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Aldo Foot
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:17 PM, ggel...@bellsouth.net wrote: Fennix wrote: Somehow I am disappointed to see all of this.  G does not write often but does so when he does think that it is worth offering a usefull contribution i thank you for your support. even if it was 'text/html'. :) i

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: I wasn't commenting on the list guidelines. I was trying to help someone that appeared to be seeing html when he would have preferred to have seen the included plain text part. That might be useful for him in general, not just on the Fedora lists. LOL - somehow I

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-13 Thread g
Bruno Wolff III wrote: It was a multipart message. You should be able to override the sender's preference and display text/plain in preference to text/html (or just not display text/html parts inline). i do have thunderbird set to 'view as text'. i was just making light comment of fennix

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Aaron Konstam
I guess it is a matter of philosophy. I think signing mail to a list is a waste of time and space. On the fedora list what difference does it make if the poster is really who he says he is, I could understand if the poster was selling me something but any ideas he or she sells are either valid

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Friday 10 July 2009 05:47:52 pm Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: g wrote: one of reasons that i use a pgp sig is that it maintains my idenity and prevents someone from trying to send an email as me, which has happened on this very list. How does it maintain your identity when we can not

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Les
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 18:38 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: \ If I may, I'd like to amplify on G's lack of Netiquette. I am also using Thunderbird with the Enigmail plugin. I too have my system set up for

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Les wrote: Hi, Steven, The point about the envelope is a good one. It is a point I never considered. But g's attitude doesn't make me fond of signing, in fact it does more to discourage users of messaging services to not use PGP or SMIME to sign messages. His actions slow access,

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Rick Sewill
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 09:47 -0700, Les wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 18:38 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: \ If I may, I'd like to amplify on G's lack of Netiquette. I am also using Thunderbird with the

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-12 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 09:47 -0700, Les wrote: One might make it more robust and not pass on unregistered emails, nor those that do not pass verification (whatever that may end up being). But that would be the end of spammers as they would have to register, and be verified.

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 00:49 +, g wrote: another reason, at least as i was told, key servers do not verify who submits a key is actual owner of address. The whole point of PGP-style signatures is the web of trust. If you don't get someone's public key directly from them (e.g. at a

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/09 23:34, quoth Steven W. Orr: On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file From:gel...@bellsouth.net

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/10/2009 11:34 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file From:gel...@bellsouth.net REJECT 553 PGP signing with no

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 12:05 -0400, David wrote: On 7/10/2009 11:34 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/11/2009 4:45 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 12:05 -0400, David wrote: On 7/10/2009 11:34 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David wrote: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for *each* post. Two in one thread? Does it twice. Three? Does it three

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for *each*

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/11/2009 6:38 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/11/09 18:05, quoth David: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for *each*

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/11/2009 6:15 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David wrote: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds *each* Kerserver for *each* post. Two in

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 21:14, quoth David: I already have your public key sir! :-) And if we ever meet then we could sign each others keys. I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail lists. Nor do I add long 'signatures' to anything. Consistency has

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/11/09 21:14, quoth David: I already have your public key sir! :-) And if we ever meet then we could sign each others keys. I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail lists. Nor do I add long 'signatures' to anything. Consistency has

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 July 2009, David wrote: On 7/11/2009 6:15 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David wrote: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends on the various Keyservers, 20 +- seconds

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/11/2009 9:31 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote: On 07/11/09 21:14, quoth David: I already have your public key sir! :-) And if we ever meet then we could sign each others keys. You and I, properly identified, sure. It would be my pleasure. I do not, as a practice, sign emails to mail

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-11 Thread David
On 7/11/2009 10:10 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 11 July 2009, David wrote: On 7/11/2009 6:15 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: David wrote: My email client, Thunderbird, goes out and searches for his 'not made public as it should be' public Key each and every post. Which takes, depends

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: one of reasons that i use a pgp sig is that it maintains my idenity and prevents someone from trying to send an email as me, which has happened on this very list. How does it maintain your identity when we can not verify that you signed the message. Without having your public key,

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:47:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: How does it maintain your identity when we can not verify that you signed the message. Without having your public key, all we know is that someone signed the message. So, your signing your messages sent

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread g
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: How does it maintain your identity when we can not verify that you signed the message. as i told david, ask. David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. i wish he would. seems david is having menstrual

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 17:47:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson mik...@infinity-ltd.com wrote: How does it maintain your identity when we can not verify that you signed the message. Without having your public key, all we know is that someone signed the message. So, your

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread g
Bruno Wolff III wrote: Because the messages are signed with the same key. So whoever is creating the signed messages has access to the private key. Key servers don't add a lot of assurance on top of this. And they add a risk that it tells other parties who you are communicating with. thank

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Todd Zullinger
g wrote: [big snip] This sub-thread needs to stop now. If all there is to say in a reply is name-calling, it does not belong on fedora-list. Please respect the many thousands of other list members. -- ToddOpenPGP - KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread g
Todd Zullinger wrote: This sub-thread needs to stop now. If all there is to say in a reply is name-calling, it does not belong on fedora-list. Please respect the many thousands of other list members. i agree about name-calling, but to say that one is 'bitching' is not same as saying one is

Re: mailing list pgp signatures...

2009-07-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/09 18:47, quoth Mikkel L. Ellertson: David, one way to solve the problem is to write a filter rule that sends g's messages directly to trash. New entry in my access file From:gel...@bellsouth.net REJECT 553 PGP signing with no public