Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-07 Thread Gunnar Wolf
peter green dijo [Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:27:11PM +0100]: > Jonathan McDowell wrote: > >I would ask that DDs make some effort to help > >those with weak keys get their new, stronger keys signed. Please sign > >responsibly[4], > If you have signed someones old key is it considered "responsible" > to

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > > >> I don't know how the *-cert-level options in gpg/gpg2 match up with >> that section RFC480. Actually reading the sections in the man pages it >> reads very differently. > > I stand correc

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > I don't know how the *-cert-level options in gpg/gpg2 match up with > that section RFC480. Actually reading the sections in the man pages it > reads very differently. I stand corrected. Now I just need to figure out how to resign the k

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 09/02/2014 12:28 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> there's a GPG option (via the the *-cert-level options, see 'man gpg') >> to state how carefully you did verify their identity, but ultimately >> it's up to you. > > That is not how I inter

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> there's a GPG option (via the the *-cert-level options, see 'man gpg') >> to state how carefully you did verify their identity, but ultimately >> it's up to you. > > That is not how I interpreted that option to mean

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, Sep 02 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > there's a GPG option (via the the *-cert-level options, see 'man gpg') > to state how carefully you did verify their identity, but ultimately > it's up to you. That is not how I interpreted that option to mean. ,[ http://tools.ietf.org/h

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jakub Wilk: > Do you have any non-joke documentation about signing responsibly? > Signing a key is equivalent to saying that you think that the key belongs to a particular individual and/or identity. Whether that means "I regularly hang out with them at DebConf" or "I met them in a keysignin

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-09-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 11:07:43AM -0700, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:27:11PM +0100, peter green wrote: > > If you have signed someones old key is it considered "responsible" to > > sign their new key based on a transition statement signed by the old > > key? or is a new

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-08-31 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 31. August 2014, peter green wrote: > My understanding is that the NSA and similar organisations can probablly > crack 1024 bit keys but the cost of doing so (assuming there hasn't been > some secret mathematical breakthrough) is likely sufficiently high that > it would be cheaper

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-08-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Jonathan McDowell , 2014-08-31, 04:31: Please sign responsibly[4], [...] [4] http://xkcd.com/364/ Do you have any non-joke documentation about signing responsibly? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-08-31 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 01:27:11PM +0100, peter green wrote: > If you have signed someones old key is it considered "responsible" to > sign their new key based on a transition statement signed by the old > key? or is a new face-to-face meeting required? I've seen plenty of > (sometimes conflicting)

Re: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-08-31 Thread peter green
Jonathan McDowell wrote: I would ask that DDs make some effort to help those with weak keys get their new, stronger keys signed. Please sign responsibly[4], If you have signed someones old key is it considered "responsible" to sign their new key based on a transition statement signed by the old