rpm with sequoia pgp

2022-09-02 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi all, rpm 4.18 is on the horizon and includes a new OpenPGP backend based on Sequoia PGP. https://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.18.0 https://sequoia-pgp.org/ Thanks to Fabio Valentini (decathorpe) for packaging not only rpm-sequoia, but all of the Sequoia packages for Fedora.

Re: RPM Sequoia - respect system's crypt policy

2022-10-17 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Thu, 13 Oct 2022 09:29:27 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> - Some old, insecure (MD5/SHA1 based) signatures are rejected (this is > >> in line with the stronger crypto settings proposed elsewhere for F38) > > > > Such a hardcoded restriction, without a way for the local administrator to > >

Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-10-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:28:01 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: > At this time, as far as I know, there is no OpenPGP work of any kind on > supporting PQC algorithms. The German BSI contracted MTG AG to design and implement PQC for OpenPGP. They presented their work at IETF 113, and at the OpenPGP email

Re: rpm with sequoia pgp

2022-09-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:12:23 +0200, Alexander Sosedkin wrote: > Mind the > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/CryptoPolicies > > Will we need to introduce a configuration mechanism to limit algorithm > selection in Sequoia PGP? Or just wait untl it switches to OpenSSL?

Re: rpm with sequoia pgp

2022-09-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Dan, On Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:18:05 +0200, Dan Čermák wrote: > "Neal H. Walfield" writes: > As Sequoia is written in Rust, what is your RISCV story? Fedora is (at > least that's my impression) a quite popular choice for RISCV boards, so > rpm working on RISCV would be

Re: rpm with sequoia pgp

2022-09-05 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Paul, Thanks for your comments. On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 20:21:21 +0200, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Fri, 2 Sep 2022, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > > Note: Sequoia currently uses Nettle on Fedora, but there is ongoing > > work to port it to Sequoia to OpenSSL: > > I think t

Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-12-21 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Simo, On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:28:01 +0200, Simo Sorce wrote: > At this time, as far as I know, there is no OpenPGP work of any kind on > supporting PQC algorithms. Furthermore the way we use signatures in RPM > really has no resemblance to the scenarios OpenPGP was built for. > > So we should

Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-11-04 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Simo, On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 22:36:09 +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 18:28:01 +0200, > Simo Sorce wrote: > > At this time, as far as I know, there is no OpenPGP work of any kind on > > supporting PQC algorithms. > > The German BSI contracted MTG AG

crypto-policies

2023-03-25 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Ben, Thanks for working on this. On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 19:25:46 +0100, Ben Cotton wrote: > Accepted blockers > - > > 1. crypto-policies ― Insecure installed RPMs (like Google Chrome) > prevent system updates in F38, can't be removed ― ASSIGNED > ACTION: Maintainers to propose

RPM Sequoia: A Sequoia-based backend for the RPM Package Manager

2023-04-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi all, A year and a half ago, I began working with Panu on using Sequoia as RPM's OpenPGP parser. I wrote up our journey from the initial analysis, to adding the code to RPM, and to getting it into Fedora 38 (yay!) in a blog post. I'm mentioning it here, as I believe it is of general interest

Re: RPM Sequoia: A Sequoia-based backend for the RPM Package Manager

2023-04-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Bob, On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:55:42 +0200, Robert Relyea wrote: > A good read indeed. Thanks, I'm happy you enjoyed it :). > I do wonder about the error message: > > because: SHA1 is not considered secure since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z > > I'm not sure where the date came from, but SHA1 wasn't

Re: crypto-policies

2023-03-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:16:45 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > I agree. The scope of the issue is fairly narrow, and the underlying > issue is an invalid signature made by the anydesk maintainers. > We also have a simple command that users can use to work around > the issue. If you are

Re: crypto-policies

2023-03-27 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Zbyszek, Thanks for the clarifications. Neal On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:32:58 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 01:29:38PM +0200, Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:16:45 +0200, > > Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > >

Re: LibreOffice packages

2023-06-07 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:07:04 +0200, Fabio Valentini wrote: > On the other hand, the libreoffice flatpak bundles ~80 projects: > - gpgme (huh?) This... > - openldap (huh?) and perhaps this are probably because it is possible to sign and encrypt ODF documents using OpenPGP. Some details are

Re: Fedora Copr builders updated to Fedora 38

2023-06-13 Thread Neal H. Walfield
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:37:09 +0200, Ondřej Budai wrote: > RPM Sequoia's crypto policies can be configured, so you should be able to > re-enable SHA-1. However, this would > be a global change, not only for EL6... See >

Re: Fedora Copr builders updated to Fedora 38

2023-06-14 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi Pavel, On Wed, 14 Jun 2023 11:27:35 +0200, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > On úterý 13. června 2023 16:57:42 CEST Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:37:09 +0200, > > Ondřej Budai wrote: > > > RPM Sequoia's crypto policies can be configured, so you should be able

Re: Sequoia PGP : What are the options for expired third party GPG signing keys?

2024-01-25 Thread Neal H . Walfield
Antoine Zellmeyer via devel writes: > Sorry for the late answer, It seems to be working :) I was able to import and > install packages signed with this certificate. Thanks for confirming that it works as expected. I've made a new release of rpm-sequoia, which includes this fix. I expect that

Re: Sequoia PGP : What are the options for expired third party GPG signing keys?

2024-01-22 Thread Neal H . Walfield
Hi Antoine Antoine Zellmeyer via devel writes: > Thanks ! I'll follow this issue. Great. I posted a fix. It would be helpful if you could test that it works for your case. Specifically, it would be helpful to hear back that it: - imports the certificate, and - you are able to install

Re: Sequoia PGP : What are the options for expired third party GPG signing keys?

2024-01-22 Thread Neal H . Walfield
Hi Antoine, Antoine Zellmeyer via devel writes: > Following Fedora’s migration to Sequoia PGP, it seems that it isn’t possible > to import an expired signing key anymore. > > rpm --import https://some.domain/public-keys/SOME_EXPIRED_RPM_KEY.public > error: Certificate : > The certificate is