Re: 'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread Atom Smasher
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > why must the identity be revealed at all, if the key-owner who > designated the revoker doesn't want it to be? > > it doesn't add to the security to know who revoked it, (whoever it as, > it was someone the 'key-owner' decided it should be) it only

Re: explain nrsign & lsign?

2007-02-01 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:43:52AM -0800, Randy Burns wrote: > > > OTOH, addresses taken from the addressbook as available on the host > > > (== zombie Windows PC) are much more effective than harvesting the web > > > or kyeservers. These local addresses are more certain to actually be > > > used

Re: 'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:21:02PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on > Thu Feb 1 21:04:27 CET 2007 > > >The idea behind this is that the relationship > >between the designated revoker and the key owner is sensitive, > > and so we must not reveal the i

Re: 'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread snowcrash+gnupg-users
> When exporting a key that has a sensitive designated > revoker set, the key is exported, but the designated revoker > information is not included. Anyone looking at the key from the > outside cannot tell the difference between this state, and no > designated revoker set at all. However, if the

Re: 'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread vedaal
David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on Thu Feb 1 21:04:27 CET 2007 >The idea behind this is that the relationship >between the designated revoker and the key owner is sensitive, > and so we must not reveal the identity designated revoker >until we absolutely must >(i.e. when they actuall

Re: 'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:23:58AM -0800, snowcrash+gnupg-users wrote: > if i've added a designated revoker to a key, WITH the 'sensitive' flag. > > am i correct that: > > (1) the 'sensitive' flag prevents the *export* of the add'l/designated > revoker's key > (2) the keyservers still learn/know

'sensitive' designated revoker -- are the keyservers still aware?

2007-02-01 Thread snowcrash+gnupg-users
if i've added a designated revoker to a key, WITH the 'sensitive' flag. am i correct that: (1) the 'sensitive' flag prevents the *export* of the add'l/designated revoker's key (2) the keyservers still learn/know that there IS a designated revoker, AND its KeyID/UID ? thanks. __

Re: New command line language parameter

2007-02-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > ---Begining of .bat file -- > @echo off > cls > echo Verifying... > %1\gpg.exe --homedir %2 --langfile %1\gnupg.nls\es.mo --verify %3 > ---End of .bat file --- You may already

Re: explain nrsign & lsign?

2007-02-01 Thread Randy Burns
--- David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:20:20PM +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > etc. Nowadays, many spammers aren't using their own bandwidth or > CPU. > > > So why *not* hit the keyservers? It costs them

Re: explain nrsign & lsign?

2007-02-01 Thread vedaal
David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com Wed Jan 31 22:19:33 CET 2007 wrote: > Indeed. It is also possible that the keyservers aren't being targeted >specifically as keyservers, but rather that people have links to >keyserver searches out there, and the spammers are just using a >crawler that happens