Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken

2017-10-16 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/16/2017 09:13 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 21:06 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >> Unfortunately, as far as I understand it, there's no easy method for >> detecting these kinds of broken keys without actually attempting to >> factorize them - and

Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken

2017-10-16 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Recently a vulnerability in a firmware library used by multiple hardware vendors has been discovered. This vulnerability makes RSA keys generated on those hardware chips much easier to factorize. One of the devices affected is the YubiKey 4 family dongle (YubiKey 4, 4 Nano and 4C). Advisory

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-09-22 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/30/2017 01:52 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Am 2017-08-30 09:01, schrieb Marc Haber: >> And I hope that it's really hard to fuck up here and to send private >> keys to the keyserver. > > I don't think that's possible with GnuPG command line, as far as > I know G

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-30 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-08-30 14:45, schrieb Marc Haber: On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 01:52:54PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: Well, you could create a completely separate key pair (with a separate master key) for Debian purposes only. That would double the effort of obtaining signatures and also double

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-30 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-08-30 09:01, schrieb Marc Haber: On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 04:07:45PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: The **public** portion of *every* key (master and all subkeys) go into the public keyrings and also in the Debian keyring. gnupg will handle this automatically if you use

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-29 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/29/2017 07:34 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 01:41:39PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: >> * Yubikey. I'm not sure about this; it's entirely closed these days >> I believe. However they're easily available and I understand >> they're pretty robust in terms of

Re: Are online services also software for Debian's rules?

2017-08-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, I don't have anything useful to add to your other comments, but: On 08/12/2017 02:11 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Christian Seiler >>> [free CPU designs] >>> (although I'm sure there are...) >> >> There are, take a look at RISC-V, for example. [1]

Re: Are online services also software for Debian's rules?

2017-08-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 08/12/2017 11:12 AM, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 10:06:40AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: >> I don't think this is as black and white as you paint it: > > It's certainly not black and white, and as I wrote elsewhere, the line can > move. But the

Re: [pkg-go] Bug#856139: certspotter: long description advertises commercial service

2017-08-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Because it's so fun, let me play devil's advocate for a bit: On 08/12/2017 08:29 AM, Dr. Bas Wijnen wrote: > No. The question is not "is there non-free software that the program can work > with?" That would be much too broad, and it would make anything that touches > the network non-free.

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 08/11/2017 07:29 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11 2017, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> - on the computers I use daily the filesystem doesn't contain any >> private keys, but only stubs for the subkeys so that GnuPG >> automatically tells me

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2017-08-11 14:41, schrieb Jonathan McDowell: * Yubikey. I'm not sure about this; it's entirely closed these days I believe. However they're easily available and I understand they're pretty robust in terms of living on a keyring all the time. I bought a YubiKey 4 a

Re: Need Info : MIPS 64 ( big Endian) debian libraries

2017-08-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/02/2017 10:10 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> Unfortunately Debian only supports MIPS64 in the Little Endian >> variant. There isn't even an unofficial port to the Big Endian >> variant of MIPS64 that I'm aware of.

Re: Need Info : MIPS 64 ( big Endian) debian libraries

2017-08-02 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 08/02/2017 06:38 PM, Praveen Gandala wrote: > We are looking for MIPS 64 ( Big Endian) Debian libraries. > > I would be grateful if you could share the information on where I can > find them Unfortunately Debian only supports MIPS64 in the Little Endian variant. There isn't even an

Re: DEP 15: Reserved namespace for DD-approved non-maintainer changes

2017-06-08 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi Sean, Am 2017-06-07 22:56, schrieb Sean Whitton: I am hereby reserving DEP number 15 for my draft DEP, "Reserved namespaces for DD-approved non-maintainer changes". I'd like to suggest discussing this DEP on d-devel (which is the Reply-to for this e-mail). The canonical DEP text is at

Re: GitHub Open Source Survey 2017

2017-06-07 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-06-06 22:19, schrieb Adam Borowski: Or that you can sanely run x86 without at least {intel,amd64}-microcode. Well, on some systems you can install BIOS/UEFI updates that will load newer microcode very early in the boot process. In that case you really don't need the