Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2011-10-10, Arturo Filastò a...@globaleaks.org wrote: On 10/10/11 9:44 AM, Robert Ransom wrote: On 2011-10-10, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: is anyone evaluating whenever to include PGP encryption support into the default Tor Browser Bundle as a Firefox extension?

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Robert Ransom
On 2011-10-10, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: is anyone evaluating whenever to include PGP encryption support into the default Tor Browser Bundle as a Firefox extension? No. I looked at the implementation and: * FireGPG it's discontinued

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Joe Btfsplk
On 10/10/2011 2:44 AM, Robert Ransom wrote: No. See https://tails.boum.org/bugs/FireGPG_may_be_unsafe/ , but beware -- I'm sure katmagic and I missed a few dozen attacks. You're correct - that is, the https site you link has an unsafe certificate, * per msg * in Firefox 7: tails.boum.org uses

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Sebastian Hahn
On Oct 10, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Joe Btfsplk wrote: On 10/10/2011 2:44 AM, Robert Ransom wrote: No. See https://tails.boum.org/bugs/FireGPG_may_be_unsafe/ , but beware -- I'm sure katmagic and I missed a few dozen attacks. You're correct - that is, the https site you link has an unsafe

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Julian Yon
On 10/10/11 13:48, Joe Btfsplk wrote: tails.boum.org uses an invalid security certificate. Anyone else seeing same security msg? Well done, you've found the flaw in the PKI model. Julian -- 3072D/D2DE707D Julian Yon (2011 General Use) pgp.2...@jry.me signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Arturo Filastò
On 10/10/11 9:44 AM, Robert Ransom wrote: On 2011-10-10, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) li...@infosecurity.ch wrote: is anyone evaluating whenever to include PGP encryption support into the default Tor Browser Bundle as a Firefox extension? No. I actually think it would be a great idea to include

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Kyle L. Huff
On 10/10/2011 01:07 PM, Mike Perry wrote: The problem with a browser extension is that the very thing that makes it useful is what makes it so risky. A GPG plugin of any kind becomes a vector for all sorts of nasty web attacks that would have normally been stopped by the server, such as XSS,

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Browser Bundle: PGP encryption built-in?

2011-10-10 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Arturo Filastò (a...@globaleaks.org): I actually think it would be a great idea to include PGP encryption support into the browser. I remember discussing this with Jake some time ago of maybe in the future having a bundle for Thunderbird and enigmail. I don't see why it it a bad