Re: [Sks-devel] Tor hidden service - what's the rationale?

2015-11-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 01:15 +0100, Hendrik Grewe wrote: > I would imagine not leaving the tor network through an exit is the > benefit. And what should be the benefit of that? If tor works right, there is none, if it doesn't there wouldn't be any either, when you "not leave it" when you hit the

Re: [Sks-devel] Tor hidden service - what's the rationale?

2015-11-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2015-11-14 at 02:36 +0100, Alain Wolf wrote: > >And what should be the benefit of that? > What is the benefit of leaving Tor? Well you can't argue like that, can you? At least it alone wouldn't be argument enough for me to set up such service. Running additional code, here tor, always

Re: [Sks-devel] old certificates

2014-04-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 12:52 +0200, Kiss Gabor (Bitman) wrote: a.keyserver.pki.scientia.net Aug 4 15:32:48 2013 GMT Well I've wrote Kristian an email with an new CSR some week or so ago,... but no reply yet... or have I overseen something? Cheers, Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Sks-devel] why does SKS have /dev/random open for writing?

2013-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 13:41 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: but writing on debian? # lsof /dev/random COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME haveged 3510 root4u CHR1,8 0t0 1045 /dev/random sks 4488 debian-sks3r CHR1,8 0t0 1045

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS should not accept or replay non-exportable certifications

2013-09-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 20:33 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: In what bizarro universe is SKS an implementation of RFC4880? Well it uses/processes OpenPGP message formats (i.e. by storing/publishing them). ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS should not accept or replay non-exportable certifications

2013-09-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 18:09 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Did anyone on this list expect the keyserver network to propagate non-exportable certifications? Nah,... not really, IMHO it should be considered a bug, and ideally such existing signatures should be removed if possible. And I guess

Re: [Sks-devel] [PATCH] add fingerprint line to machine readable output

2013-09-11 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 22:40 -0500, John Clizbe wrote: 2) As Christoph has already pointed out, this breaks the draft we try to follow as our standard. One should add though, that it's only a pseudo-standard... perhaps one should pick up that work again and make a proper RFC out of it... one

Re: [Sks-devel] javascript web of trust visualization: CORS and keyserver spam

2013-09-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 13:05 -0700, Geoffrey Irving wrote: http://naml.us/trust Should that be a live demo? It doesn't work here with FF 23. Here's candidate patch implementing CORS. Do you see any chances to implement all that without requiring remote code/content (and thus CORS)? I guess

Re: [Sks-devel] [PATCH] add fingerprint line to machine readable output

2013-09-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 23:29 +0200, Stefan Tomanek wrote: With this change, an additional line is appended to each search result when using the machine readable output. This line is prefixed with fpr: and contains the fingerprint of the key returned, making it possible to distinguish keys

Re: [Sks-devel] [PATCH] add fingerprint line to machine readable output

2013-09-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 02:13 +0200, Stefan Tomanek wrote: Just to be on the safe side, what about making the fpr line depend on the fingerprint parameter? I think that sounds generally reasonable... not only for being on the save side... and I guess you're right and now client should fail.

Re: [Sks-devel] Legalese for mismatched expectations

2013-08-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 20:46 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Too many words, keep it KISS in plain speak. Agreed... First, it's not our job to educate people with respect to cryptography/security in general... we should only focus on the keyserver related issues, and as such we should IMHO rather

Re: [Sks-devel] Contact keyserver.ubuntu.com

2013-08-16 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 13:41 +0200, Christian Felsing wrote: does anybody know how to contact admin of keyserver.ubuntu.com? I usually use r...@ubuntu.com... - also wait for them to act on my peering entry right now ;) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering status of limited peers

2013-08-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 04:08 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: * stinkfoot.org I'm one of it's two peers... Not sure why reco doesn't work here... the server still uses my old DNS name (i.e. without the a.) in front of it, but for IPv4 this should work as long as I haven't added further addresses to the

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering status of limited peers

2013-08-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 03:23 +0200, Petru Ghita wrote: Are there some error messages that should be monitored on the log files? Well apart from denied reconciliations (both as server client)... it's probably interesting do monitor 417/5xx HTTP errors... (not sure though whether SKS itself logs

Re: [Sks-devel] Peering status of limited peers

2013-08-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 20:00 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: Perhaps of use for people wanting to explore the connectivity. Quite nice... Can we have this on a regularly updated basis on e.g. sks-keyservers.net? Perhaps also with 7 and 10 connections (or some reasonable numbers). Not sure if it makes

[Sks-devel] Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure(add_to_node: attempt to reinsert element into prefix tree)

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. As mentioned previously I'm in the process of migrating/re-installing my SKS instance at much better machine... I run SKS 1.1.3 from Debian sid (which has BDB 5.1, IIRC). Just for trying, I dumped the keydb from my old server, and made a full build on the new one (which worked fine, i.e. no

[Sks-devel] is mailsync still required?

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I just wondered whether mailsync is still required, or in other words whether any non-SKS networks are left. At a first short search I couldn't find any PKS server... pgp.mit.edu used to be one for very long time, but I suggested them years ago to switch to SKS, and IIRC they did. Are

[Sks-devel] is mailsync still required?

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I just wondered whether mailsync is still required, or in other words whether any non-SKS networks are left. At a first short search I couldn't find any PKS server... pgp.mit.edu used to be one for very long time, but I suggested them years ago to switch to SKS, and IIRC they did. Are

Re: [Sks-devel] is mailsync still required?

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Sorry for the double post (as for this post), used the wrong address initially, and the moderator seemed to have let it through in the end. Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Sks-devel] Raising Sys.Break -- PTree may be corrupted: Failure(add_to_node: attempt to reinsert element into prefix tree)

2013-07-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 13:25 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: The core problem is not specific to VMs, just immensely more likely on them, or Windows, than most modern Unix. The issue is that the current timestamp was used as a uniqueness key. I see... so what's the suggested action then when one

[Sks-devel] ECC keys and SKS 1.1.3

2013-07-26 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I'll need to move my keyserver (keyserver.pki.scientia.net) to a new host/IP (and perhaps I'll even change the domainname with that) in a few days and wondered the following: Since (IIRC) the 1.1.4 changelog mentioned that it added support for the ECC keys... what does that mean for 1.1.3

Re: [Sks-devel] Social media and keyserver operators?

2012-06-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 21:49 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: I'm thinking of creating a keyserver operator circle list, both set to be public. Is this really a good idea? I mean I'd like to see a sks-operators mailing list... and this list should focus on development only... but Twitter/G+/FB are not

Re: [Sks-devel] Whats last version of SKS Server?

2012-05-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 13:45 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: of a Debian developer AFAIK, neither Sebastian nor Jens are Debian Developers. (see http://db.debian.org/) Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel

Re: [Sks-devel] Debian binary replacement

2012-05-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 00:34 +0200, Arnold wrote: The readme says: This ... version ... is intended to humiliate and expose the following persons So, this version is not intended for me, despite the subject and the fact I use Debian and the Debian distributed SKS. I'll just wait for the next

Re: [Sks-devel] Debian binary replacement

2012-05-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
One follow up perhaps... Sebastian and Jens (not sure which of you is actually responsible for what). It really doubt that you make much friends or reach you assumed aim (getting new SKS versions proper into Debian) when negatively pointing at all different places (just spotted some comments on

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Jeffrey, it's a bit strange, to read you claiming Debian would have lack of skill / etc. while you try to convince us of static linking, or at least that's what I think you do. Whether BDB has a big CVE record or not doesn't matter at all, as security holes (or other critical) bugs can just

Re: [Sks-devel] Hosting debian packages

2012-04-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 16:03 -0500, John Clizbe wrote: I wouldn't call the project's Google Code downloads page Unofficial :-) Surely, but the advantage of distros having their repostories... you get something that is tailored toward the distro and its other packages,... someone (maintainer) has

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 19:44 -0500, John Clizbe wrote: See my message from last night with the 11:38PM CDT timestamp. Upgrading for DB is pretty painless. Well if this is not possible, just add a NEWS entry, fully describing what have to be done. Generally it would be a good idea, to extensively

Re: [Sks-devel] SKS debian package

2012-04-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 14:56 -0400, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: And the recommended -- by SleepyCat -- solution is to internalize Berkeley DB to avoid breakage between different applications compiled against different libraries. With internalise you mean that the package should ship it's own copy of

Re: [Sks-devel] sks recon DB corrupted

2011-05-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Thanks for the hint. Adding a DB_CONFIG file and increasing the mutex to 2^16 helped so far (though I had to do it for BOTH (!) databases, DB and Ptree, and the used mutexes for Ptree is still increasing at currently about 1. Is this normal? Can't we just increase the defaults in the source

[Sks-devel] sks recon DB corrupted

2011-05-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Since some days my recon DB seems DB be corrupted. recon.log gives the following message. ... 2011-05-25 13:51:30 address for alpha.keyserver.ws:11370 changed from [] to [ADDR_INET [64.70.19.33]:11370] 2011-05-25 13:51:41 reconciliation handler error in callback.: Bdb.DBError(unable to

[Sks-devel] misc errors and their meanings?

2010-10-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I get several errors which I don't understand: in db.log: 1) many like these: 2010-10-25 01:50:53 Error fetching key from hash 9BC79BCAF20C03977BAD4986AE5A2EA8: Not_found 2010-10-25 04:51:48 Error fetching key from hash 1602C783D3BBC01EA6882BCC8C087F40: Not_found 2010-10-25 04:51:48 Error

Re: [Sks-devel] Dump

2010-10-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:25 -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Yes, Chris. It would, especially after losing Peter's site. It would also be great if we could expand the number of sites offering keydumps so Marco's site doesn't have to bear all of the traffic. Maybe the following would be the best:

[Sks-devel] Re: Dump

2010-10-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 21:36 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: just becaiuse something CAN be done does not mean it should be done, and here particularly with a fine cache of email addresses intact for spammers to target (rather than having to pull them one-off) I guess you underestimate today's

Re: [Sks-devel] Re: Dump

2010-10-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:42 -0400, R P Herrold wrote: Review the bidding. I rather believe you initiated the uncivil tone, and I have been mild in reply: Hansen: herrold: and [impairing] the privacy of a whole community's members This is nonsense. This was not even offensive, but

Re: [Sks-devel] Dump

2010-10-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I guess it would make sense to put a list of all sites providing regular keydumps on the googlecode webiste. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org

Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver.pki.scientia.net downtime [ENDED]

2010-10-12 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. The downtime of keyserver.pki.scientia.net has ended. It's available under the same IPv4 address as before. IPv6 is likely to follow end of the year. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list

[Sks-devel] keyserver.pki.scientia.net downtime

2010-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. In case any of its peers wonders: The node hosting the SKS at “keyserver.pki.scientia.net.” is damaged and will experience a longer downtime. I'll recreated it on new hardware from scratch and put a note here, once it's back. Cheers, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic

Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver online

2010-08-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
a proof that I'm actually Christoph Anton Mitterer but only that the owner of that key has access to that email address (which an attacker can have easily too, via MiM-attacks). It neither proves you that the owner of that key is really the owner of that keyserver, also because of easily possible

Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver online

2010-08-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 12:56 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote: The necessary root-CAs are available from the International Grid Trust Federation (www.igtf.net) Thank you. I will review their CPS and make a decision regarding trust at a later time. I am more hesitant to add CAs to

Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver online

2010-08-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 10:49 -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Yes. I was using keyserver as synonymous for keyserver operator. Imprecise language, I grant, but that's English for you. Neverteheless? Why should a keyserver or keyserver operator be a CA or act in such a role? A CA is an entity

Re: [Sks-devel] new keyserver online

2010-08-22 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 14:48 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote: It was published on a CD, signed by Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org, a Debian Developer whose identity was verified in person by another DD: And you believe that Philipp has met officials for all the CAs included in the Mozilla

Re: [Sks-devel] Looking for peers

2009-09-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 17:24 +0400, Rakhmatulin Sergey wrote: My server key.sodrk.ru:11370, e-mail pkp-...@sodrk.ru. I'd add you if you still searching for peers. You can add mine too: keyserver.pki.scientia.net 11370 btw: The domainname you specified (key.sodrk.ru), differs from what sks

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net down?

2009-08-13 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:39 +0200, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: I entered pool.sks-keyservers.net as keyserver address in GnuPG but it doesn't return any A/ records at the moment. For me it works ;) # dig pool.sks-keyservers.net any ; DiG 9.6.1-P1 pool.sks-keyservers.net any ;; global

Re: [Sks-devel] Re: [PATCH] Proper case handling for words index

2009-08-07 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Are we going to see a new sks release in the near future? With all the recent patches (IP6, DNS, this one, etc.)? Perhaps including a end-user targeted guide how to recover from bugs like this one (dump-restore-etc-procedure)? Best wishes, Chris. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Sks-devel] looking for gossip peers

2009-03-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Sorry for writing German. I didn't want to CC this to the list ;) Regards, Chris smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/sks-devel

Re: [Sks-devel] details to configure SKS https web interface

2009-03-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 09:52 -0400, David Shaw wrote: We may end up with hkps on port 11372 just for lack of support for doing anything else. One should not use port numbers from the registered port numbers area,... if it's not actually registered or even used by something else. Chris.

Re: [Sks-devel] looking for initial key dump and gossip partners

2009-02-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Thanks for all your information. In took a little bit longer (I exchanged the hardware of my server, and used the non-fast-DB-build ;) )... but now it's up and working, at least in its initial configuration (without fancy website etc.). Anyway I'd still like to have many more gossip

Re: [Sks-devel] looking for initial key dump and gossip partners

2009-02-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Thanks for all your information. In took a little bit longer (I exchanged the hardware of my server, and used the non-fast-DB-build ;) )... but now it's up and working, at least in its initial configuration (without fancy website etc.). Anyway I'd still like to have many more gossip

Re: [Sks-devel] looking for initial key dump and gossip partners

2009-02-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Thanks for all your information. In took a little bit longer (I exchanged the hardware of my server, and used the non-fast-DB-build ;) )... but now it's up and working, at least in its initial configuration (without fancy website etc.). Anyway I'd still like to have many more gossip

Re: [Sks-devel] Ports used by sks

2009-02-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
;) Best wishes, -- Christoph Anton Mitterer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de m...@christoph.anton.mitterer.name smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Sks-devel mailing list Sks