Re: Updated Debian Developers Keyring

2008-04-18 Thread Jonathan McDowell
The keyring part isn't as easy. The problem is that the keyring isn't maintained collaboratively. jetring has been developed for exactly this use case, but I've heard (discussion on #debian-devel) that some people considered jetring a mess (I don't have details about specific problems

Re: Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2010-11-19 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 01:09:29PM +0100, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: Hi! For the New Debian Contributors section of the Debian Project News I usually look at the keyring change mails you send. However in the last report I noticed the following: abou.almonta...@sfr.fr Full

Re: Moving to stronger keys than 1024D

2013-10-05 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 10:37:40AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: What worries me is that by revoking my old key I'll make the situation for the WoT worse. Given the current state and evolution trends of WoT, is it actually the case, as Gunnar hints at above, or not? OTOH by not retiring

Re: Moving to stronger keys than 1024D

2013-10-05 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 05:32:18PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 08:17:48AM -0700, Jonathan McDowell wrote: Now. If you have a 2048 bit or larger key that has been signed by at least 2 other DDs but still have a 1024D key in our keyring you should be filing

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-23 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 02:10:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: So, what do you suggest? Set a deadline (say 1 year?) for removal of all 1024 bit keys from the keyring. Notify all users of 1024 bit keys via all addresses listed in the MIA db

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-23 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:49:37PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, Jonathan McDowell wrote: * Requests need to include the full fingerprint of both the old and the new key. Not just the key IDs. Not just the new key. We want to be absolutely certain

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-24 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 05:53:58PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: Jonathan McDowell writes (Re: State of the debian keyring): On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 02:10:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: * The new key must be signed by the old key that is being replaced. * The new key must be signed by 2

Re: State of the debian keyring

2014-02-25 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:51:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Gunnar Wolf gw...@gwolf.org writes: Ian Jackson dijo [Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 05:57:57PM +]: I think this is a bug. It can increase security because it can make operations more convenient at the same level of security,

Re: keybase.io

2014-04-04 Thread Jonathan McDowell
not be trusting any third party with the private half of my key on their servers, even if it's passphrase protected and the crypto carried out at the client side. J. -- Revd Jonathan McDowell, ULC | You non-conformists are all alike. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: keybase.io

2014-04-04 Thread Jonathan McDowell
[I trimmed the To down to -project because I think everyone on the CC is reading that; I certainly am so no need to explicitly CC me.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:18:13PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Jonathan McDowell dijo [Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:35:41PM +0100]: To be clear, if I spot any key

Re: keybase.io

2014-04-04 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:15:10PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:57:50AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: 2 separate points to make here (as well as the general point Russ and Paul have followed up with about what do we trust in general running on the same machine

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DebConf14: Last call for keys for keysigning in Portland, Oregon, USA

2014-08-19 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 01:27:28AM +0200, AnĂ­bal Monsalve Salazar wrote: As part of the 15th Debian Conference in Portland, Oregon, USA there will be OpenPGP (pgp/gpg) keysignings. If you intend to participate in the DebConf14 keysignings, please send your ascii armored public key as

Re: Reminder: Removing 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-09 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 08:25:58PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Nov 08, Jonathan McDowell nood...@earth.li wrote: Back in August I sent notification[0] about the fact that we will be removing all keys less than 2048 from our keyrings at the end of the year (31st December 2014). Sadly

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-23 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or npm; how long does it take to get a python or nodejs Debianized and installable? (eg: learning that npm2deb exists, how to use it, what else you have to do to have a

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-04-16 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:12:14PM +0200, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: Stats for the DPL votes: |--+--++---++-++---| | | Num || Valid

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-04-16 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:12:14PM +0200, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: Stats for the DPL votes: |--+--++---++-++---| | | Num || Valid | Unique | Rejects | % | Multiple | | Year | DDs | Quorum | Votes |

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-04-16 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:12:22PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:26:27AM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:12:14PM +0200, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: Stats for the DPL votes

Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2015 Results

2015-04-17 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:09:01AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:28:34PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Kurt Roeckx dijo [Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:45:37AM +0200]: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:41:52PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: Sadly this list is trivially proved

Re: concerning debian.nl domain

2016-03-31 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:50:03PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > My former employer registered the debian.nl domain when the previous > holder wasn't interested any more, mostly to prevent it falling into the > wrong hands. > > That was some time ago; since some time that former employer is busy

Re: Proposed GR: Acknowledge that the debian-private list will remain private

2016-07-07 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 03:37:08PM +0200, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: > In 2005, the body of Debian Developers passed a General Resolution[1] > requiring the creation of a declassification team for the > debian-private mailing list. For the past ten years, the > implementation of this GR has never

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-11 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:08:16AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Thank you for the explanation. > > On Fri, Aug 11 2017, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > > * If you don't want to buy hardware, use an offline master > > key. Create > >a certification only maste

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-11 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 10:16:29PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > It would be nice if someone knowledgeable could educate the rest of us > about physical key dongles -- a number of DDs/DMs/contributors still > keep their secret keys on a regular disk, and could use a primer. Me > included. I do

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-11 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 04:52:36PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 11 Aug 2017, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > I see no reason why the master key should ever be used for > > signatures in such a scenario, so it seems sensible to indicate that > > it is pur

Re: Security advisory for YubiKey 4: RSA generation broken

2017-10-16 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:13:19PM +0200, 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

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-30 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:34:35PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 01:41:39PM +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > > * GnuK: My favourite choice. It's slow with RSA4096, but does > > support it. The hardware is open. The software is open (you can &g

Re: wanted: educate us please on key dongles

2017-08-30 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:50:53PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 12:42:13PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > * with Yubikey 4 (suspected): they send the secret handshake, get a > > copy of the key, and you don't even know anything happened > > That's a point, but I cannot

Re: Keysigning in times of COVID-19

2020-08-12 Thread Jonathan McDowell
Enrico Zini wrote: > we have people approaching Debian with a lack of GPG signatures, and we > generally cannot ask them to travel and meet other developers in person > to get their key signed. It's worthwhile stating the actual problem that is trying to be solved here. I believe that is: