Re: Quotes from GPG users

2013-11-04 Thread Sam Tuke
On 03/11/13 20:13, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: As a Debian user, I rely on GnuPG to ensure that the software I install hasn't been tampered with. Excellent thanks Daniel! Sam. -- Sam Tuke Campaign Manager Gnu Privacy Guard 0044 78680 77871 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[Announce] Details on the GnuPG 1.4.15 and 2.0.22 release

2013-11-04 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Taylor asked me to forward this background info: On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 10:56, w...@gnupg.org said: not yet been seen in the wild. Details of the attack will eventually be published by its inventor. The zlib compression language that OpenPGP uses is powerful enough to express an OpenPGP

Re: gpgsm and expired certificates

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 2 November 2013 at 6:48:39 PM, in mid:87fvreprlk@mat.ucm.es, Uwe Brauer wrote: Your point being? I presume it goes like this: NSA is a government based organisation doing, among other things, violations of civil rights.

Smart card reader issues with Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit

2013-11-04 Thread Olav Seyfarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi list, for a couple of years now I use an OpenPGP SmartCard for my daily mail. Every message I sign gets signed by the card, every encrypted message I receive gets decrypted by it. My v1 card failed one day without warning, my v2 card works

Re: gpgsm and expired certificates

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Sunday 3 November 2013 at 10:02:14 PM, in mid:87habtnnyx@mat.ucm.es, Uwe Brauer wrote: Ingo == Ingo Klöcker kloec...@kde.org writes: So, your point/hope probably was that a government based CA wouldn't have such a business

Re: Quotes from GPG users

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Saturday 2 November 2013 at 4:22:29 PM, in mid:20131102162229.gc7...@fritha.org, Heinz Diehl wrote: GPG - keeps the XXX from your door! :-) [Replace XXX with any three letter agency of your choice] Is that actually true, rather than

Re: trust your corporation for keyowner identification?

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Sunday 3 November 2013 at 2:08:15 AM, in mid:5275b00f.7030...@gmail.com, Paul R. Ramer wrote: When you verify a key to sign you are verifying the following: 1) For each UID, that the name is correct and that the purported owner has

Re: Quotes from GPG users

2013-11-04 Thread Ben McGinnes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 30/10/13 9:58 PM, Sam Tuke wrote: Hi all, I'm working with Werner to promote GnuPG and raise awareness. To that end we're collecting quotes from users - endorsements from people who know and trust GPG, people like you. Feel free to use any

Re: gpgsm and expired certificates

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 4 November 2013 at 2:02:30 PM, in mid:563460450.20131104140230@my_localhost, MFPA wrote: Where actual identity is not required, just continuity of communication, I see no value in obtaining any certification at all. Or, indeed,

Re: trust your corporation for keyowner identification?

2013-11-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/04/2013 11:02 AM, MFPA wrote: And as an aside, does it really make a difference to only sign some UIDs and not others? Does GnuPG actually take account of which UIDs are signed in its validity or trust calculations? Yes, it does make a difference. Let's say I make key X and attach to

Re: Quotes from GPG users

2013-11-04 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 30/10/13 9:58 PM, Sam Tuke wrote: Hi all, I'm working with Werner to promote GnuPG and raise awareness. To that end we're collecting quotes from users - endorsements from people who know and trust GPG, people like you. If you want to help us, send your own statement about why GPG is

Re: trust your corporation for keyowner identification?

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 4 November 2013 at 4:52:02 PM, in mid:5277d0b2.9040...@fifthhorseman.net, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Yes, it does make a difference. [snipped] If you had certified both User IDs on my key, gpg would be happy to encrypt the

Re: Quotes from GPG users

2013-11-04 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 04.11.2013, MFPA wrote: GPG - keeps the XXX from your door! :-) [Replace XXX with any three letter agency of your choice] Is that actually true, rather than bringing you to their attention? It depends. My key is publically available, with my current email address in it. Thus,

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Monday 4 November 2013 at 8:07:01 PM, in mid:201311042007.ra4k71qh085...@fire.js.berklix.net, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Talking about an alien loathed three letter agency ... See 4 top secret papers from it published by UK's Guardian

UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
information which could be of importance for a three letter agency. In Talking about an alien loathed three letter agency ... See 4 top secret papers from it published by UK's Guardian newspaper today :-) at the bottom of this link

Re: trust your corporation for keyowner identification?

2013-11-04 Thread Paul R. Ramer
MFPA expires2...@ymail.com wrote: Why do we need to establish they can also sign? Isn't it enough to demonstrate they control the email address and can decrypt, by signing one UID at a time and sending that signed copy of the key in an encrypted email to the address in that UID? You are right.

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/04/2013 04:29 PM, MFPA wrote: That's phenomenal: isn't everybody in the world separated by an average of just six hops? I tried to check that out, and I have never needed more than about three hops. Three hops to former president Richard

Re: trust your corporation for keyowner identification?

2013-11-04 Thread Leo Gaspard
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:44:51PM -0800, Paul R. Ramer wrote: MFPA expires2...@ymail.com wrote: Why do we need to establish they can also sign? Isn't it enough to demonstrate they control the email address and can decrypt, by signing one UID at a time and sending that signed copy of the key

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Monday 04 Nov 2013 21:07:01 Julian H. Stacey wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa -files-surveillance-revelations-decoded And in other news... http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/google-chief-eric-schmidt-slams-nsa-for-tapping-datacenters/ Google

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
That's phenomenal: isn't everybody in the world separated by an average of just six hops? That's more urban myth than reality. Reality is hard to model. An isolated village in a remote area of Africa might have a very hard time connecting to London in six hops, but the instant one

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I tried to check that out, and I have never needed more than about three hops. Sure, but then again you're trying to hit people with *extremely* large networks, and whose first-order networks are themselves *extremely* well-connected. Even the exotic ones like Ronald Coase -- he

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Monday 04 Nov 2013 21:07:01 Julian H. Stacey wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa -files-surveillance-revelations-decoded And in other news... http://slashdot.org/topic/datacenter/google-chief-eric-schmidt-slams-nsa-for-tapping-datacenters/ Google

Re: UK Guardian newspaper publishes USA NSA papers

2013-11-04 Thread Jean-David Beyer
On 11/04/2013 05:40 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: I tried to check that out, and I have never needed more than about three hops. Sure, but then again you're trying to hit people with *extremely* large networks, and whose first-order networks are themselves *extremely* well-connected. Even