Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread n...@enigmail.net
>> b. The validation server does not need to manage a "stack" of keys >>awaiting feedback from the validation emails. >> > indeed, that's an argument > Hmm, but IMO we anyway need a state in validation servers to deal with different spam schemes (i.e. avoiding that any request to a v-server

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread n...@enigmail.net
Am 29.07.2015 um 03:30 schrieb MFPA: > > Hi > > > On Monday 27 July 2015 at 1:15:57 PM, in > , Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > >> Regarding the design: personally, I wouldn't have the >> user follow a link that includes a swiss number, but >> have the user reply to the mail, include the swiss >>

Re: One Key, multiple Smartcards not working anymore

2015-07-28 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Hello, I forgot to address some way to recover. On 07/28/2015 04:09 AM, Josef Schneider wrote: > I insert the other card and do a card-status: [...] > General key info..: pub 2048R/988E7DDD 2015-07-07 Josef Schneider > > sec> 4096R/9BE45ED0 erzeugt: 2012-12-10 verfällt: 2017-04-13 >

Is there a way to comment a key locally?

2015-07-28 Thread fmv1992
Is there a way to comment a key locally? Examples: Let's say I met a guy and we exchanged keys. After 10 years I decide to send him an encrypted email. How would I remember the guy - key link? I'm thinking of adding an alias like 'red haired funny tall guy from XYZ meeting' Other scenario: I dow

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 8:17:28 PM, in , n...@enigmail.net wrote: > AFAIK, there are not THAT many faked keys, but the > problem exists especially for key parties of our > internet world (a famous German magazine, at least one > GPG tool, .

Re: One Key, multiple Smartcards not working anymore

2015-07-28 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Hello, Thank you for the report describing complicated issue. Your detailed description helps me understand the situation. On 07/28/2015 04:09 AM, Josef Schneider wrote: > I have a problem with my Key. I have a 4096bit RSA key since 2012 and it > is stored on a OpenPGP smartcard. > Recently I ad

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 9:06:03 PM, in , Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > Let's concentrate on this one, I think this is the real > tough task: establishing a trust chain from the > validating servers to the client. > There's one root certifi

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 11:46:10 PM, in , Neal H. Walfield wrote: > At Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:22:29 +0100, MFPA wrote: >> It also eliminates any attempt to to establish a link >> between the key and the email address in the UID. > I'm not so

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
At Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:22:29 +0100, MFPA wrote: > On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 8:22:23 AM, in > , Neal H. Walfield wrote: > > > Did you consider user a proof-of-work scheme? For > > instance, the user does a 1 week PoW, signs the result > > and attackes it to the key. These would be refreshed > >

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 28.07.15 16:46, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Monday 27 July 2015 21:05:26 Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: >> Hi Ingo, >> >> On 27.07.15 16:31, Ingo Klöcker wrote: (...) >> Why should there not be a similar community approach for setting >> up a (smaller

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread n...@enigmail.net
Hi, thanks again for the great feedback. Am 28.07.2015 um 19:26 schrieb MFPA: > > Hi > > On Monday 27 July 2015 at 6:55:24 PM, in > , n...@enigmail.net wrote: > >> If the >> goal is to keep validations in sync, key owners might >> have to confirm emails added over the year earlier, >> which

Re: gpg 2.1.6 toggle doesn't

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 27 July 2015 at 3:06:53 PM, in , Marko Božikovic wrote: > On 27/07/2015 14:31, MFPA wrote: >> When I run gpg -K, or gpg --list-secret-keys, the >> listing for each key starts with the location of >> pubring.kbx and not the location

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 3:46:54 PM, in , Ingo Klöcker wrote: > I'm confident that the smaller mail providers who focus > on security would be willing to add such an interface. > Frankly, I do not care that much for the big mail > providers.

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Tuesday 28 July 2015 at 8:22:23 AM, in , Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Did you consider user a proof-of-work scheme? For > instance, the user does a 1 week PoW, signs the result > and attackes it to the key. These would be refreshed > about

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 27 July 2015 at 7:00:08 PM, in , Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > It makes the information more compact and will make hkp > vindex lists look cleaner. I thought Base64 encodes 3 bytes into 4, so has a 33% overhead. > Presuming thi

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 27 July 2015 at 6:55:24 PM, in , n...@enigmail.net wrote: > If the > goal is to keep validations in sync, key owners might > have to confirm emails added over the year earlier, > which shouldn't be too bad. - - If the goal is to

Re: gpg 2.1.6 toggle doesn't

2015-07-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:58, bo...@kset.org said: > When we're talking about private keys "not being there", is there a difference > between a private key that has been deleted from your own keypair and a > private key that's never been there (i.e. you only have someone else's public You can't know

Setting Up a User with Private Digital Keys (Error Msg)

2015-07-28 Thread Programador IBMi
Hello Guys, Greetings from Honduras, It's my first time using gng from the AS400 (IBMi) but when I'm trying to setting up a user with private key, I'm getting an error: Command: gpg --gen-key Error: gpg: cannot open `/dev/tty': No such device or address Could you help me to solve this issue? Be

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Tuesday 28 July 2015 09:22:23 Neal H. Walfield wrote: > Hi, > > Did you consider user a proof-of-work scheme? For instance, the user > does a 1 week PoW, signs the result and attackes it to the key. These > would be refreshed about once a year. Which problem do you propose to address with su

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Patrick Brunschwig
On 28.07.15 16:46, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Monday 27 July 2015 21:05:26 Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: >> Hi Ingo, >> >> On 27.07.15 16:31, Ingo Klöcker wrote: >>> This whole concept of a whitelist of "trusted validation servers" >>> included in the email clients sounds a lot like the CA certificate >

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Monday 27 July 2015 20:19:07 n...@enigmail.net wrote: > Am 27.07.2015 um 16:31 schrieb Ingo Klöcker: > > This whole concept of a whitelist of "trusted validation servers" included > > in the email clients sounds a lot like the CA certificate bundles > > included in browsers and/or OSes. Who is g

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Monday 27 July 2015 21:05:26 Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > On 27.07.15 16:31, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > This whole concept of a whitelist of "trusted validation servers" > > included in the email clients sounds a lot like the CA certificate > > bundles included in browsers and/or OSes

Re: gpg 2.1.6 toggle doesn't

2015-07-28 Thread Marko Božiković
On 28/07/2015 14:34, Werner Koch wrote: > On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:46, bo...@kset.org said: > >> I know that, and I'm using 2.1 exclusively... Still, it would be nice to be >> able to see the state of private keys (e.g. primary key not present in the >> keyring, private keys are on the card, etc) wh

Re: gpg 2.1.6 toggle doesn't

2015-07-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:46, bo...@kset.org said: > I know that, and I'm using 2.1 exclusively... Still, it would be nice to be > able to see the state of private keys (e.g. primary key not present in the > keyring, private keys are on the card, etc) while editing keys. It seems Right, that makes s

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 19:54, kristian.fiskerstr...@sumptuouscapital.com said: > The way I read this proposal isn't about keyservers per se, but the > individual validation servers publishing a chained list (like a Right. I assume that these validation servers still work like the the regualr keyser

Re: Proposal of OpenPGP Email Validation

2015-07-28 Thread Neal H. Walfield
Hi, Did you consider user a proof-of-work scheme? For instance, the user does a 1 week PoW, signs the result and attackes it to the key. These would be refreshed about once a year. This eliminates the verification servers and the problems associated with them (namely, people need to trust them