Re: It's 2014. Are we there yet?

2014-04-14 Thread Mirimir
On 04/09/2014 10:16 PM, John Clizbe wrote: > Robert J. Hansen wrote: >>> The “secure communications” paradigm of course spans a whole spectrum >>> from “I don’t give a ” to “I’ll do anything to protect my >>> communications, including giving away my first born”. I suspect the >>> “average Joe u

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> backlog. Well, they did not give it up so much as contract it out to a > company that put profit ahead of product and they essentially stopped doing it > on the governments behalf. I was about to not respond, but -- I have this thing about errors of fact: I want to see them corrected. So yes,

Re: It's 2014. Are we there yet?

2014-04-14 Thread John Clizbe
Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> The “secure communications” paradigm of course spans a whole spectrum >> from “I don’t give a ” to “I’ll do anything to protect my >> communications, including giving away my first born”. I suspect the >> “average Joe user” in 2014 is slightly above the former, but wa

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, April 14, 2014 16:47, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> how exactly could a private contractor have that level >> of security clearance, anyway? > > The government had a seat that needed filling, they couldn't get the > seat filled at the paycheck they're legally allowed to offer to a > direct em

Re: The bug... More info. / OFF TOPIC

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 4/14/2014 3:57 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 04/14/2014 11:42 AM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: I do NOT believe that this is off topic for this list Then can we get a ruling from the list owners/moderators please? We already have one from Werner Koch. However, that doesn't matter, it IS of

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
how exactly could a private contractor have that level of security clearance, anyway? The government had a seat that needed filling, they couldn't get the seat filled at the paycheck they're legally allowed to offer to a direct employee, so they hired a private contractor to fill the role.

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 14/04/14 21:27, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Given the bug was introduced in March of 2012, that would mean the bug would > have had to been discovered, an exploit tested, a product weaponized In /this specific instance/, I believe these three can indeed be the product of, well, mere hours. I do

Re: Am I being blocked from posting on this list?

2014-04-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
As the Great One, Doug Barton stated (paraphrasing), this topic is totally off-topic for this list, and I have violated the owners' wishes by posting on it, and, of course I should have known this, and not even tried to post on this topic on this list. There have been several posts on this

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/14/2014 11:42 AM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: I do NOT believe that this is off topic for this list Then can we get a ruling from the list owners/moderators please? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mai

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 4/14/2014 3:27 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: Given the bug was introduced in March of 2012, that would mean the bug would have had to been discovered, an exploit tested, a product weaponized, a product distributed to end-users, and deployed by end-users against targets, all in under a month fro

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
list), some more reports on it, that you may have not seen. These reports suggest the the NSA knew about and exploited the bug for "at least" two years, and may have even worked to stop it from being reported and fixed. Given the bug was introduced in March of 2012, that would mean the bug

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:42, cwal...@comcast.net said: > Are you the list owner? Did you put a "subject line block" on this > list? If so, you should have said so, if not, then the list owner There are only a few anti-spam measures on all gnupg.org lists and they have been there for years. Speci

Re: Am I being blocked from posting on this list?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 4/14/2014 2:43 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: .snip. Heartbleed! Heartbleed! Heartbleed! Nope, no Great Old Ones have risen from the depths and begun to expose humanity to unimaginable horrors. Maybe if I try again with the word "Hastur"... [*] Heartbleed was bad, yes. However, it's hard f

Re: Am I being blocked from posting on this list?

2014-04-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. Heartbleed! Heartbleed! Heartbleed! Nope, no Great Old Ones have risen f

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 4/14/2014 2:35 PM, Doug Barton wrote: Aside from the obvious fact that this is off-topic for this list, as has been pointed out several times already, wouldn't the existence of a subject line block give you a pretty good hint about the list owner's intentions? Doug Are you the list owner?

Re: The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Doug Barton
Aside from the obvious fact that this is off-topic for this list, as has been pointed out several times already, wouldn't the existence of a subject line block give you a pretty good hint about the list owner's intentions? Doug ___ Gnupg-users maili

The bug... More info.

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
The discussion on the Heatbleed bug has apparently stopped here, and just about everywhere else, but I found (courtesy of another mailing list), some more reports on it, that you may have not seen. These reports suggest the the NSA knew about and exploited the bug for "at least" two years, and

Re: Am I being blocked from posting on this list?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
On 4/14/2014 11:56 AM, Christopher J. Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. So, is there a keyword blo

Am I being blocked from posting on this list?

2014-04-14 Thread Christopher J. Walters
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-

Re: ElGamal without padding - why?

2014-04-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 22:38, rdohm...@gmail.com said: > Hi, why has ElGamal no padding in gcryt ? Please me more verbose. See RFC-4880 on how Elgamal is used in OpenPGP. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. ___