On Mon 2015-09-28 16:00:38 -0400, SGT. Garcia wrote: > i really want it as the only authentication required that is open password > from > user logs him in and decrypts the passwords. > >> > that would be my email account not my local user account, correct? >> >> The attack i described is an attack against your local user account, >> though i suspect it could be leveraged into an attack against your >> e-mail account as well. > > how does it work, does gnupg phone home? i suspect not. i did not agree to > import anything but apparently my mail client (mutt) and/or gnupg took the > initiative to do so. if that's true then that's a misconfiguration or bad > default configuration of mutt and/or gnupg, i think.
There is no phoning home. Do you ever import keys that other people send you? or keys you find on the web? or keys attached to e-mail messages? Are you sure the things imported can't include a secret key? Apparently i'm not doing a great job at communicating this scenario to you. sorry about that. Maybe someone else can try to explain it more clearly than i can. I understand what you're asking for, and i see how it would be a useful thing. However, i think you should constrain it much more tightly than what you appear to be asking for, and i don't think that such a thing already exists. It would be a bit of engineering work to make sure that it's functional, but i'd be happy to review something like this if somebody wants to propose it. --dkg _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users