Re: Third-Party Confirmation signature?

2019-07-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 18:45, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > Is there a way to create a "Third-Party Confirmation signature"[1] > using the gnupg command line interface? No. You need to add code for this which also requires that you have a way to specify another signature packet. Are you considerin

Re: Testing WKD setup?

2019-07-09 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 16:17, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > false negatives. It only supports the 'direct' method, where the key > has to be hosted on `example.org` instead of `openpgpkey.example.org`. BTW, the openpgpkey subdomain method was accidently not available in 2.2. This will be fixed wit

Release candidate for 2.2.17

2019-07-05 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
Hi! Due to the SKS keyserver problems we are planning a new release for the next week. That release will have some changes related to keyserver. See below for details. In general we do not provide release candidates because experience showed that they are more or less ignored. However, this tim

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 17:08, stef...@sdaoden.eu said: > I (still user of GPG1, it is only your newer key which this cannot Just don't use it unless you need to decrypt very old mails. In particular not with keyservers or cards. The next maintenance release will anyway remove all keyserver and car

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:42, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > --keyserver-options self-sigs-only,import-minimal > > as I propose, why would it take longer than 0.2 s? Indeed, we could change the code for import-minimal so that it first does the same what self-sigs-only does. Then it should be very

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 13:50, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > Is there a good use-case for the former? If the latter also filtered out Yes, as I wrote: 0.2s compared to 50s. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. signature.asc Description: PGP s

Re: Local solutions: SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 12:58, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > reached its intended goal: dirmngr said "re-reading config". It just > didn't have an effect for some odd reason. For people thinking about Check that you do not have a keyserver entry in your gpg.conf or Enigmail is calling gpg with that

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 12:29, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > Ah, based on a new message I just read the penny dropped. self-sigs-only > can be made a default because it only applies to keyservers. > import-minimal cannot be made a default because it affects all other Not quite. When importing from

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 10:38, tliko...@iki.fi said: >> import-clean does this: >> >>After import, compact (remove all signatures except the >>self-signature) > > ...here you and the manual say that "first import [to local keyring] > then clean". > > So there are conflicting messages. Which of

Re: SKS and GnuPG related issues and possible workarounds

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 05:06, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > As I understand it the current list of targeted keys is myself, dkg, > Werner, Patrick, and Kristian. It is clear the attacker's goal is to I am not yet affected except for these few thousand old xmas fun signatures. > Werner will no doubt

Re: distributing pubkeys: autocrypt, hagrid, WKD

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 15:40, konstan...@linuxfoundation.org said: > When this happens, a maintainer who tries to verify a signed pull > request will have the operation fail, so they need to have a way to > force-refresh the developer's key. I would say this is the #1 workflow Agreed. A signature c

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 12:35, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > problem but I have read RJH's article). It sounds like SKS servers can > handle these poisoned keys but GPG can't. That suggests that maybe GPG's I think here is a misunderstanding. Sure, processing 150k signatures takes quite some time an

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-03 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 11:00, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > It sounds like you are saying that the order of operations -- > import-then-clean vs. clean-then-import is part of the API spec that > GnuPG is committed to. No. What I say is that if we want to clean the keys from bogus signatures we nee

Re: Some thoughts on the future of OpenPGP and GnuPG

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 20:41, an...@pgp.16bits.net said: > attachments that you need to extract, then open with a special program > to decrypt. > (In fact, many people _currently_ use OpenPGP in that stony age way) From my experience many people use ZIP or PDF encryption here and not OpenPGP. But a

Re: Some thoughts on the future of OpenPGP and GnuPG

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 16:03, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > With "big boys" I meaned the German Government, German BSI and Facebook. I, or well my company g10 Code GmbH, has currently no contracts with the German government or the BSI. We had projects with the BSI but no funding whatsoever. These

Re: SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 13:47, look@my.amazin.horse said: > Huh, that's interesting. I was not aware of this issue, and wish you had > reached > out to me, or to supp...@keys.openpgp.org, or filed an issue on Hagrid. I assumed that newly launched server software with the goal to take over all existi

Re: SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 10:01, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > No such issues on keys.openpgp.org, gpg --send-key and the new updated > key is immediately available with no time outs or delays. Unless you are on Windows where the server can't be accessed because it uses a pretty limited set of TLS ciph

Re: keyserver-options: self-sigs-only, import-clean, import-minimal

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 10:23, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > Why not make "import-clean" and "import-minimal" strip key signatures > before importing a key? That would make "import-minimal" behave like Because that contradicts what import-clean is supposed to do: After import, compact (remove all

Re: Your Thoughts

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 23:47, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > for development. My donation capped at $500. For several of those > years, I was one of the largest individual contributors to GnuPG. Right, your donation encouraged me to keep on working on this set of tool which is used at many more plac

Re: Your Thoughts

2019-07-02 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 22:58, h...@alyssa.is said: > For example, why isn't ask-cert-level a default? I'm guessing it's just > because at some point it didn't exist, and the developers didn't want to Because we have good defaults and options to chnage them in the config. We do not want to expose all

Re: distributing pubkeys: autocrypt, hagrid, WKD

2019-07-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 10:27, konstan...@linuxfoundation.org said: > - subkey changes An expired key triggers a reload of the key via WKD or DANE. Modulo the problems I mentioned in the former mail. For new subkeys we have a problem unless we do a regular refresh similar to what should be done for

Re: distributing pubkeys: autocrypt, hagrid, WKD (Re: Your Thoughts)

2019-07-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 15:13, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > distribution keys in Gentoo. However, the main problem with WKD right > now is that AFAIK GnuPG doesn't support refreshing existing keys via WKD Actually gpg updates expired keys via WKD. However, to not break things and not to go out and

Re: New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

2019-07-01 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 14:55, andr...@andrewg.com said: > Yes, which is why we've informally had "let the owner choose whether to > publish her incoming certifications" as best practice for a long time. Actually gpg has always set the /Key Server Preferences/ to First octet: 0x80 = No-modify

Re: New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

2019-06-25 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:54, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: >> Theres simply one point: "If you do not want your email to be public, don't >> upload your key to a server." > > What if I upload your key to a server though? Keep in mind this is not just > a "nice to have", it is a legal requirement. For

Re: GnuPG and SSH_AUTH_SOCK value

2019-06-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 16:39, g...@unixarea.de said: > Thanks for the explanation. But why GNUPGHOME is not also used for the > place where the sockets should be created when X11/KDE is up? That seems to be deep in the innards of KDE's X startup or Wayland or Systemd configuration. I try to avoid a

Re: GPG/YubiKey/CentOS7

2019-06-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 18:42, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > Even though I have had GPG and YubiKey running a few times on CentOS7 Which GnuPG version does it come with: "gpg --version". Does it install gpg under the name gpg2 and provides the legacy GnuPG 1.4 under the name gpg ? > [p42547@cswks20

Re: New keyserver at keys.openpgp.org - what's your take?

2019-06-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:03, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > here is a article (only in german) from Heise: By the very same guy who showed in the past that he has no clue about keyservers and their goals and ignored all comments gathered about this before writing an article [1]. That new thing now

Re: GnuPG and SSH_AUTH_SOCK value

2019-06-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:20, g...@unixarea.de said: > What I do not understand is, why this value without the KDE5 environment > is > > $ gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket > /home/guru/.gnupg-ccid/S.gpg-agent.ssh That is because you have a GNUPGHOME=/home/guru/.gnupg-ccid and /var/run/users/100

Re: library intialization error

2019-06-13 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 10:08, hassan.mostaf...@gmail.com said: > # include > > # define AM_PATH_LIBGCRYPT What purpose has this macro? Did you mized something up with a configure macro. Anyway, it is not a problem. > /* intialization success check */ > > gcry_error_t e1 = gcry_control (GCRYC

Re: missing root certificate, SMIME spanish government

2019-06-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 14:49, o...@mat.ucm.es said: > Well but if I import the key, then I don't need to add it to the > trustedlist file The trustlist.txt list those certificates which are valid as root certificates. Importing a certificate does not add it to this list for obvious reasons: All kin

Re: Conflict Due to Multiple Instances of Smart Card Daemon

2019-05-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 26 May 2019 22:11, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > the new design you're working on. By the way, could you describe that > in more detail? What new capabilities will it offer (or what new gpg-card supports all smartcards which are supported by scdaemon and not just the OpenPGP card. It has

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.16 released

2019-05-28 Thread Werner Koch
iles for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6

Re: Conflict Due to Multiple Instances of Smart Card Daemon

2019-05-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 22 May 2019 00:21, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > work without requring removal/re-insertion of the card, but presumably > such a change has security implications or the original developers > would not have used PCSC_SHARE_EXCLUSIVE. So... I don't know if such a > change is advisable. Any f

Re: Enforcing password complexity for private keys

2019-05-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:55, david.mi...@gmail.com said: > We’re considering rolling out GnuPG at work for developers to sign git > commits. > How can we prevent developers from choosing a trivial password? You can't but it is not a problem. The passphrase is used to protect the private key in ca

Re: FW: yubikey public key

2019-04-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 14:16, jennifer.m...@pacificorp.com said: > I got a yubikey 5 working with Gnupg agent by writing the key direct > to the card on CentOS 7. Then I was tasked with writing documentation FWIW, GnuPG 2.3 will have full support for Yubikey 4 and 5 which includes support for the P

Re: gpg-agent: different ttl for different keys possible?

2019-04-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:08, telegr...@gmx.net said: > is it possible to configure gpg-agent to cache the passphrase > for different OpenPGP keys for a different length of time? if No, that is currently not possible. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bun

[Announce] GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) 1.13.0 released

2019-03-26 Thread Werner Koch
signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.15 released

2019-03-26 Thread Werner Koch
gnature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4

Re: Identifying one of multiple authentication subkeys

2019-03-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:02, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > But something more user friendly to match SSH fingerprint and keygrip > could be beneficial. I'm not sure what that would look like and neither You can build a script based on this: $ gpg-connect-agent 'keyinfo --ssh-list --ssh-fpr' /b

Re: gpg: packet(3) with unknown version 7

2019-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 23:46, ggroenh...@ggf-controls.de said: > with gpg2 symmetric encrypted file. I allways get > "gpg: packet(3) with unknown version 7". That is garbled data because a version 7 of the session key packet (tag 3) is not defined. Please check the error messages again or provide a

Re: Identifying one of multiple authentication subkeys

2019-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 23 Mar 2019 16:19, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > because ssh-add -d doesn't work with gpg-agent. Well, not with the > version in Debian stretch anyway, I reserve the right to be ignorant That is on purpose: gpg-agent stores the key permanently and thus it makes no sense to add and remov

Re: Hostname of key server pool disappeared? hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

2019-03-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:42, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > I do understand why someone decided to delegate keys.gnupg.net to someone > else, but is that healthy for GnuPG? gnupg.{net,com,org,de} and gpg4win.{org,de} are all owned by my company g10 Code GmbH. whois unfortunately does not show that

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.14 released

2019-03-19 Thread Werner Koch
s entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5D

Re: Hostname of key server pool disappeared? hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net

2019-03-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:09, ml-gnupg-xix@linuxwan.net said: > keys.gnupg.net is just a CNAME for hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net. This > host appears to be the default for GNUpg configs. FWIW, keys.gnupg.net is a hardcoded alias in dirmngr since 2.2.7 and thus the CNAME is not used since that ver

Re: Can I use my Microsoft Outlook S/MIME certificate with gpgsm.exe ?

2019-03-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 03:03, dkbry...@gmail.com said: > $ echo hi | gpgsm --sign --armor --default-key 0x64208E9A > --disable-crl-checks --disable-policy-checks > gpgsm: error creating signature: No value Please always add -v or --verbose to the invocation if you run into problems. This gives mor

Re: Multiple dev one signing key

2019-03-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:43, johndoe65...@mail.com said: > Just to be clear, you Werner will sign everything that needs to be > signed for a release with your personal key. In practise that is the case. However, anyone of our small group can sign releases and also update the online list of current

Re: Multiple dev one signing key

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 20:05, johndoe65...@mail.com said: > What is the best way forward? > - One signing key accessible on the release system I'd say depends on the release system. In most cases this is a networked box and I would hesitate to do this. Using gpg --with a remote gpg-agent would be

Re: Default trust-model TOFU

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 20:21, tliko...@iki.fi said: > have plans for that, to set the default trust model to "tofu" or > "tofu+pgp"? I am still not convinced that the UI as implemented on the command line is better that what we have now. It looks more complicated than what one would expect under TO

Re: PGP Anonymous Board Idea

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 22:00, ab...@monksofcool.net said: > a) We're moving ever further off topic in terms of GnuPG. FWIW, given the low traffic on gnupg-users, I would consider this still to on topic. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. sig

Re: user id question

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 14:51, 2017-r3sgs86x8e-lists-gro...@riseup.net said: > Is "nerdy" good or bad in this context? That is really up to you. Often it is fun to be a nerd. To the OP: I have done keysigning for about 25 years but meanwhile I don't think that the Web of Trust is a good idea to mak

Re: Keys in the keystore dir (private-keys-v1.d/) are being modified

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:54, claudio.flore...@gmail.com said: > After signing a file with my sign subkey I noticed that the private key > file of the sign subkey was modified. Why? What happens? To speed up the migration and to not annoy you by asking for your passphrase for each private key, GnuPG

Re: Questions about finding keys used to encrypt files with gpg

2019-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 17:52, mattia.cod...@poste.it said: > I noticed that the gpg -d [filename] command works out without asking > me for the passphrase, so after a brief search i became aware of the > fact that gpg uses public/private keys encrypting, combined with a Right public key cryptography

Re: user id question

2019-03-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 10:09, johndoe65...@mail.com said: > What I understand is that there is no clear convention. Meanwhile I would suggest to only use the mail address, that is j...@example.org and leave out all other parts. There are even mail providers which demand this for data privacy re

Re: OPENPGPKEY on DANE

2019-03-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 21:58, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > 2019-03-06 21:25:50 dirmngr[2855.6] DBG: chan_6 -> OK Dirmngr 2.2.4 at > your service Between 2.2.4 and 2.2.10 we fixed a couple of bugs in the DNS resolver. This should explain why it works on macOS, where you use 2.2.10. Salam-Shalom,

Re: OPENPGPKEY on DANE

2019-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 23:43, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > gpg: error retrieving 'i...@rfechner.de' via DANE: Not found > gpg: error retrieving 'i...@rfechner.de' via Local: No public key Okay, you need to look into the actual DNS requests. Please add --8<---cut here---sta

Re: setting up decryption in an automated environment

2019-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 10:05, gpir...@manymore.fr said: > In the previous version the parameter -passphrase did the trick (although > not the most secured) but it isn't working anymore. Given that it is an unattended environment, a passphrase to protect the private key does not make any sense (in mo

Re: OPENPGPKEY on DANE

2019-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 13:41, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > --auto-key-loacate clear, dane, local --locate-key -v em...@adress.com Do not put spaces between the a-k-l parameters. "dane' would be considered as first argeument and gpg tries to do something with that. There should be a warning. gpg -

Re: Invalid IPC Response requiring gpg-agent restart

2019-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 21:51, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > $ echo test | gpg -a --sign > gpg: signing failed: Invalid IPC response Please run $ echo test | gpg -a --sign --verbose --debug ipc to see the communication with the gpg-agent. The rrror message reminds me of the time when gnome-keyr

Re: How to specify ca-cert-file as a path relative to ~?

2019-02-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 12:15, am...@riseup.net said: > (1) > keyserver-options ca-cert-file=../keyserversCA.pem I recently asked whether you got a warning regarding this option. Would you mind to look again at the output and, more important, tell us what version of gpg you are using (gpg --version)

Re: An option to generate revocation cert for subkey(s)?

2019-02-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 19:25, mgo...@gentoo.org said: > of the key with subkey revoked, and use that for the purpose. However, > I think it would be much more convenient if had an option to generate > the revocation signature separately. Can you please enter a feature request at dev.gnupg.org? Sa

Re: Speedo build of GnuPG v2.2.13 fails for me

2019-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 20:08, aaj...@gmail.com said: > GnuPG version in swdb.lst is less than this version! > This version: 2.2.13 > SWDB version: 2.2.12 Something went wrong uploading the version file. I just repeated it and it wortks now (try: "build-aux/getswdb.sh"). Thanks for reporting,

Re: Upload key to WKD from command line?

2019-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
> gpg-wks-client: Warning: policy requires 'mailbox-only' - adding user > id 'wolfgang.tray...@posteo.de' > Or do I even need my secret primary key? Right. The primary key is required to create a new user id. gpg tries to be helpful there but it can't work for high security environments with a

Re: Problem with generating Brainpool P-512

2019-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:52, m...@mailbox.org said: > you should add it in the man page, because it's a FAQ: > cert-digest-algo !< SHA512 ing gpg.conf for ECC >= 512-bit Sorry, I can't parse that. Please also note that --cert-digest-algo should not be used because it viloates the OpenPGP preferenc

Re: Upload key to WKD from command line?

2019-02-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 11:20, wolfgang.tray...@posteo.de said: > I am looking for a simple solution just like `gpg --send-keys`, but for WKD. Locate the gpg-wks-client binary. On Windows it should be found via $PATH but on Unix it is installed at one of this locations /usr/local/libexec/gpg-wks-

Re: It's more GNU/Linux than GnuPG

2019-02-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:27, am...@riseup.net said: > keyserver-options ca-cert-file=~/keyserverCA.pem Didn't you got the warning that this option is obsolete. Certifciates are configured in dirmngr.conf. In case you are using a 2.0 version of GnuPG, please note that this branch reached EOL

Re: Problem with generating Brainpool P-512

2019-02-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:11, vojtas...@gmail.com said: > and in syslog I have found this gpg-agent writes to syslog - that's new to me (with the exception of certain diagnositics from Libgcrypt). >     gpg-agent[pid]: a 256 bit hash is not valid for a 512 bit ECC key >     gpg-agent[pid]:command '

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.13 released

2019-02-12 Thread Werner Koch
a2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = 46CC 7308 65BB 5C78 EBAB ADCF 0437 6F3E E085 6959 David Shaw (GnuPG Release Signing Key) rsa2048

Re: The "advanced" URL of openpgp-webkey-service-07, and l=

2019-02-12 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:04, ves...@tana.it said: > I just saw version -07 today. The advanced method: > > WELLKNOWN := https://openpgpkey.example.org/.well-known/example.org/openpgpkey > > doesn't seem to make much sense to me. I tried it with posteo.de, and got: The two parts were accident

Re: [k9mail/k-9] Makes PGP sign-only mails very difficult (#2375)

2019-02-06 Thread Werner Koch
[Please don't cross-post!] On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:47, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > THE DATE PROBLEM. Only the body of the email is signed, not the > envelope headers, namely the subject and intended recipients, and Sure, mail headers are subject to changes. For example by mailing list software

Re: [OT] Where can I find some papers to read on mail (and envelope) security?

2019-01-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 20:44, s...@300baud.de said: > On the other side i wish PGPfone would have been further developed. > I found it, way back then, pretty cool and super easy to use, compared > to PGP or GnuPG. Please don't compare an online protocol with an offline (store+forward) protocol - the

Re: Calling GnuPG ME library from managed .NET

2019-01-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:45, m.vet...@infotech.li said: > 2. Which version of libgpgme-xx.dll is compatible to version 2.1.1.18 > of GnuPG tool suite? Is this version 1.9.0 or version 1.7.0 according > to the release news on page https://www.gnupg.org/news.html? The name of the DLL only reflects th

Re: Feature proposal - image encryption

2019-01-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 13:28, jc.gnupg...@unser.net said: > I beg to differ. Given the classic Unix philosophy of chaining small tools > which do their job well, GnuPG is already way too complex, especially for > casual users. I generally prefer the ImageMagick concept of small tools I would have se

Re: OpenPGP card: how to lock the card again so that PIN is required

2019-01-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 08:36, g...@unixarea.de said: > with the OpenPGP card (HID Global OMNIKEY 6121 Smart Card Reader) after Take care: Usual Omnikey problems with creating and using large keys apply. > How can I meanwhile 'reset' the OpenPGP card so that on next request for > the secrets (decryp

Re: Gnupg-devel Digest, Vol 183, Issue 5

2018-12-15 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 16:41, phoeny...@gmail.com said: > I was wondering if the pdf is going to be updated anytime soon? It's > title page still says it's for version 2.2.7? Done that. > > Also availabale should be available. I use always the last announcement as a template. I see how I can reme

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.12 released

2018-12-14 Thread Werner Koch
igned by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig) rsa2048 2014-10-29 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = 46CC 7308 65BB 5C78 EBAB ADCF 0437 6F3E E085 6959 Da

Re: Smart cards

2018-12-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:27, art...@ulfeldt.com said: > using openkeychain with a yubikey nfc is totally solid, and convenient. > I've been using them for years. they also plug into the bottom of the > phones which some people prefer. You should keep in mind that you can eavesdrop on NFC communicati

Re: Keyserver access changes in GnuPG

2018-12-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:00, t...@pobox.com said: > /usr/bin/gpg1 for users who want to keep using it. Dropping > the keyserver and photoviewer helpers is part of the next > planned release from the 1.4.x branch, which is being > tracked in https://dev.gnupg.org/T3443. Right. Given that gpg1 is a

Re: GnuPG, (neo)mutt and S/MIME

2018-12-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:24, p...@sys4.de said: > Is there any other infrastructure/tool I need to setup and configure to sign > and encrypt messages in mutt? set crypt_use_gpgme and then use the S/MIME options in Mutt's menu: hit 'p', 'b' and 'm' to encrypt and sign with S/MIME. ('m' switches to

Re: Chance to get --with-agent-s2k-calibration=MSEC into stable branch?

2018-12-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 09:28, fka...@posteo.net said: > from September 2017 for configure.ac that allows to circumvent a > huge performance regression with gnupg v2 keys in some contexts. > > This commit is not in stable though. Right. The bug was closed so we forgot about it. Thanks for the remin

Re: Problem with the GnuPG - gen-key

2018-12-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 14:51, per.tore.johan...@ecp.no said: > Installed GnuPG from : gnupg-i5pase-1.4.10b.tar.Z on Power for I. OS > release V7R3 That looks like a modified version of an old GnuPG 1 version from 2009. Please do not use such an old version. The current 1.4 version 1.4.23 From t

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 14:05, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > Understood. Please check this example, a key with with plenty of data, > which only needs to be extracted. > > https://pgp.circl.lu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x73253A1F090C53B6 Surely you can put arbitrary data into into a user-id. > That

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 19:56, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > Well, my understanding would be that a least one (search) criteria > would be needed to fetch a key, right? And if so i could also imagine Right, the fingerprint. And maybe the long keyid for a transitional period because not all software

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:34, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > Can you give more details about the security aspect? People believe that the keyservers magically return a matching key for a mail address. There is no guarantee for this. In fact all people from the strong had meanwhile expired faked ke

Re: Garbled data in keyservers

2018-12-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:31, c...@cod-web.net said: > On pool.sks-keyservers.net eveything works well while on other > keyservers I get 47Mb of garbled data from Yegor Timoshenko key, which I > never signed and I don't know exactly why it's included in search There are several problem with the keys

Re: Newer gnupg doesn't ask for key size on generate?

2018-11-29 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:06, smck...@titaniummirror.com said: > Today we set up a new Yubikey from a Windows 7 system running GnuPG > 2.2.10. Its generate command did not ask us for key size, and the With version 2.2.6 we had to introduce a new command to be more flexible with chnaging attr

Re: Problem with focus of pinentry on win7

2018-11-26 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Here is my reply to the Enigmail list which explains why this is indeed not just a problem of gpg and that we can't have a perfect solution. For security reasons Windows has strict rules on which process can put itself into the focus. Enigmail needs to tell Pinentry, via gpg, that it may tak

Re: Newbie Question about initialization

2018-11-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:18, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > gcry_version_check(1.8.4) gcry_check_version requires a string with the version number or NULL. Thus --8<---cut here---start->8--- const char *s; if ((s=gcry_version_check ("1.8.4"))) printf ("V

Re: Error after secret key list.

2018-11-23 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, if you can compile a not too old gpg version, you might be able to apply this patch. It should show you the fingerprint of the cuplrit. --8<---cut here---start->8--- diff --git a/g10/keyid.c b/g10/keyid.c index a9034ee46..3694c26cc 100644 --- a/g10/keyid.c

Re: Error after secret key list.

2018-11-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 18:56, dirk.gottschalk1...@googlemail.com said: > I saw the Listing in the debugging log. I tried this also. > gpg -k does not show this message, but two messages regarding two keys, Hmmm, not easy to debug by mail. > gpg: bad data signature from key 2894CD20EE47166D: Wrong k

Re: Error after secret key list.

2018-11-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:38, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > After listing the keys, gpg reports: gpg: error computing keygrip Looks like you have a garbled key or one with an unknown encryption algorithm. Not easy to pinpoint because that diagnostics comes from the deep innards of gpg. Do you see

Re: Exporting/ importing changes expiration date of subkeys...

2018-11-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:45, 2017-r3sgs86x8e-lists-gro...@riseup.net said: > http://sites.inka.de/tesla/gpgrelay.html. A possible working link is > https://sourceforge.net/projects/gpgrelay/. Thanks, I fixed it. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesges

Re: Update FAQ about revocation certificates?

2018-11-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 18:34, stefan.cl...@posteo.de said: > apartment and accidentally threw away the box > in which the revocation cert was stored... :-( :-( > How would you procede now? Fetch your backup which for you will have stored at a different venue .-) Call the locksmith to open the loc

Re: Most secure GPG combination for Mac OSX

2018-11-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 07:50, em...@andrewnesbit.org said: > - Enigmail and GPGTools are orthogonal components re: Thunderbird. > Enigmail is something like the interface to the underlying GPG > implementation. In many cases on Mac OS X, including mine, this > underlying implementation is indeed G

Re: encrypt linux backup folder using gpg

2018-11-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 06:55, kaushalshri...@gmail.com said: > I am using CentOS 7.5 Linux OS in my setup. I have compressed a folder > using tar utility tar czvf backupfolder.tar.gz backupfolder. Is there a way > to encrypt backupfolder.tar.gz using gpg? Are there any best practices to Sure: tar

[Announce] GnuPG 2.2.11 released

2018-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
ry versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig)

[admin] Re: OpenSSL vs GPG for encrypting files? Security best practices?

2018-11-05 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Please do not post commercial advertisements to a gnupg mailing list. There is no problem to _mention_ proprietary software on the GnuPG lists if that mentioning is related to technical questions. But sales pitch or ads are unwanted. Thanks, Werner ps. I removed the openssl list from t

Re: GPG on Android

2018-11-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 23:20, juer...@bruckner.tk said: > I for myself did configure MailDroid that way, that for each > crypto-operation, decrypt, sign, encrypt I have to enter my passwort > each time. That does not help. A bugged phone will for sure employ a keylogger and thus you can also work w

Re: File name seen by gpg

2018-10-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:33, alvaro@gmail.com said: > It seems I was not looking at the right keywords when I searched, because I > couldn't find that option before. Note that the filename stored with the encrypted or signed data is not even convered by the signature. Thus it is possible to an

Re: PGP Authentication with gpg4win+ssh

2018-10-30 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 15:13, zer...@gmail.com said: > If I do a gpg --list-keys my keys all show up just fine. Run gpg-connect-agent 'keyinfo --ssl-list' /bye to see the keys gpg-agent is aware of. See also gpg-connect-agent 'help keyinfo' /bye and as Gniibe wrote, you need to put a key i

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.8.4 released

2018-10-26 Thread Werner Koch
ignature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: rsa2048 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F2

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