Re: gnutls heartbleed equivalent?

2014-06-02 Thread David Tomaschik
pg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: locale bug in 1.4

2014-03-17 Thread David Tomaschik
ANG=de_DE.UTF-8 but that LANGUAGE has neither the _ part nor a > character encoding? > > > Hauke > -- > Crypto für alle: http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/fuer/unterstuetzer/ > http://userbase.kde.org/Concepts/OpenPGP_Help_Spread > OpenPGP: 7D82 FB9F D25A 2CE4 5241 6C37 BF4B 8EEF 1A57 1DF5 > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Configure Errors

2014-03-14 Thread David Tomaschik
t; > I downloaded th package from a uk mirror for gnugp, have tried witha > couple of them now and still get the same error. > > am i possibly missing something on my OS? > > many thanks > > sam > > ___ > Gnupg-users

Re: cryptanalysis question: Does knowing some of the content of the message make the full message vulnerable to decryption?

2014-01-31 Thread David Tomaschik
to symmetric encryption methods as well? > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http:

Re: USB key form-factor smart-card readers with pinpads?

2014-01-11 Thread David Tomaschik
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Jan 9, 2014 7:16 PM, "David Tomaschik" > wrote: > > > > if the machine you are using for crypto operations is compromised, you > have lost (at least for the operations conducted while it is compromised) >

Re: USB key form-factor smart-card readers with pinpads?

2014-01-09 Thread David Tomaschik
py to > stand corrected. > > In the meantime, I hope I can find a small form-factor > OpenPGP-compatible smart card reader with a pin pad. I would be > grateful for pointers :) > > Regards, > > Sam > > ___ > Gnupg-users m

Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread David Tomaschik
. (One story here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/badbios.html) I haven't decided yet if I believe all of it, but it's still a scary thought. > > Cheers! > -Pete > > Cheers! > -Pete > > ___ > Gnu

Re: 2.0.20 beta available

2013-04-24 Thread David Tomaschik
; > * [scdaemon] Install into libexecdir to avoid accidental execution >from the command line. > > > The code also builds for Windows and we plan to do a Gpg4win release > soon after 2.0.20. > > > Shalom-Salam, > >Werner > -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP

Re: The Lord of the Keys

2013-04-08 Thread David Tomaschik
2013 at 6:49 PM, Ken Kundert wrote: > On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 02:15:44PM -0700, David Tomaschik wrote: > > This isn't really a direct answer, but you can use your GPG key material > > for SSH purposes and then you only need to unlock the GPG keys... > > David, > I

Re: How difficult is it to break the OpenPGP 40 character long fingerprint?

2013-04-01 Thread David Tomaschik
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > On 1 April 2013 22:50, David Tomaschik wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor < >> d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >> >>> On 04/01/2013 12:24 PM, adrelanos wr

Re: How difficult is it to break the OpenPGP 40 character long fingerprint?

2013-04-01 Thread David Tomaschik
gt; 1000 years into the future seems like a dubious proposition. Consider > the state of mechanical computation and mathematics 100 or 1000 years > ago. Do you think that even a skilled mathematician at the time could > have predicted where we are today? > > The longevity of any publi

Re: The Lord of the Keys

2013-04-01 Thread David Tomaschik
swer, but you can use your GPG key material for SSH purposes and then you only need to unlock the GPG keys... -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Patch for using GPG on 64 bit Matching

2013-01-23 Thread David Tomaschik
> > Please help. > > AO > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com _

Rugged ID-000 form factor card reader?

2013-01-22 Thread David Tomaschik
rt card in this way. Even better would be a new smart card with a form factor similar to the Yubikey Nano (https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-nano/) but that might be a pipe dream. -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemov

Re: Problem trying to automate decrypt option

2012-10-17 Thread David Tomaschik
the problem... > > Regards. > > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- David Tomaschik OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: OpenPGP smartcard, how vulnerable is it?

2012-08-15 Thread David Tomaschik
may be a 50 chars random > concatenating of numbers, letters and special chars). > > What am I missing? > > > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo

Bad Signatures when using check-sigs

2011-12-16 Thread David Tomaschik
anything... hope I'm not missing something obvious. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

Re: SCR3340 CardReader [Was: Re: Which ExpressCard/54?]

2011-11-20 Thread David Tomaschik
2011 7:24 AM, "Jerry" wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:35:21 -0500 David Tomaschik articulated: > I actually have an SCR3340 based reader that just doesn't want to work > on my new laptop. It ma... Have you tried this device on any other PC just to insure it is not a localized

SCR3340 CardReader [Was: Re: Which ExpressCard/54?]

2011-11-19 Thread David Tomaschik
upported I've enabled debugging on scdaemon and attached the log file. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com 2011-11-19 16:32:27 scdaemon[17659] li

Fwd: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)?

2011-11-11 Thread David Tomaschik
Accidentally responded off-list... -- Forwarded message -- From: David Tomaschik Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Signing already-encrypted files (all to self)? To: Chris Poole I would just produce a list of SHA1s of the files and then sign that. sha1sum

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-17 Thread David Tomaschik
d of a tool designed for disk encryption? TrueCrypt is cross-platform and works well... if you're Windows-only, there's BitLocker, and for Linux there's LUKS/dm-crypt and eCryptFS. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B ht

Re: Why revoke a key?

2011-10-11 Thread David Tomaschik
mbol). But perhaps I'm delusional. [1] http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-63/SP800-63V1_0_2.pdf -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com

Re: GPG with SMP?

2011-10-05 Thread David Tomaschik
. PCBC also incorporates the plaintext into the input for the encryption process, IIRC. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users

Re: Problem when decrypting PGP messages

2011-09-14 Thread David Tomaschik
tien It looks like the "Version" header is too long and is wrapping onto a 2nd line. The 2nd line is not a valid header, and is confusing gpg. Most likely, this is caused by the email client on the sending side wrapping the text. (Although maybe some receiving clients re-wrap text, I

Re: OpenPGP card issues

2011-09-07 Thread David Tomaschik
ge when I saw it on my phone, but then promptly forgot. It looks like gpg2 can't find your gpg-agent socket. Try adding "use-standard-socket" to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf (or starting gpg-agent with --use-standard-socket) and see if that helps. Also, make sure seahorse and other

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-30 Thread David Tomaschik
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Richard wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 20:49, David Tomaschik > wrote: > >> No, you can store a primary key.  And you can use the 3 slots for any >> purpose (though I believe they must all tie to the same primary key.). >>  It

Re: Migrating to Smartcards

2011-08-30 Thread David Tomaschik
again. > Will that cause any problems in later GnuPG use as the cards' IDs are > different? I don't think that would be an issue, but I can't be sure. Keep in mind that as long as the card is left in the reader, it would be considered unlocked -- do you want to leave that lay

Re: Which release should we be using?

2011-08-26 Thread David Tomaschik
es 8 bits of entropy per symbol, which is, as Aaron pointed out, wrong. Suggested readings: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Entropy_%28information_theory%29, https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Password_strength and NIST publication 800-63. -- David Tomaschik,

Re: Keys over 4096-bits

2011-08-26 Thread David Tomaschik
e such keys and also consider > that nowadays more and more low-processing power devices are used. > > Such keys are at best a political statement and a good laugh for some > NSA folks. > > > Shalom-Salam, > >   Werner -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 Sys

Re: Extract numbers from a key // wrong pgpdump link :-(

2011-08-23 Thread David Tomaschik
On 08/23/2011 06:52 PM, Faramir wrote: > El 03-08-2011 9:40, ved...@nym.hush.com escribió: > > Sorry, wrong link extension, > > > here is the correct one: http://www.pgpdump.net/ > > By the way, what would be required to run pgpdump locally? I guess > there is no compiled version for windows... >

Re: Smartcard PIN may be shorter than passphrase?

2011-08-23 Thread David Tomaschik
Better use only digits - if you need to use a keypad you can't do that > instantly. > > > Shalom-Salam, > >   Werner Thanks Werner! David -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@sys

Smartcard PIN may be shorter than passphrase?

2011-08-23 Thread David Tomaschik
s for my regular PIN. (The admin PIN is somewhat longer.) Would this be considered a reasonable length? (Someone who can read the memory on a smart card by opening it up is NOT in my threat model -- if they can do that, they have much easier ways to coerce me into giving up my PIN.) --

Re: Scripting GPG Encryption

2011-08-10 Thread David Tomaschik
On 08/10/2011 12:32 PM, Smith, Greg E wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am having an issue where we have set a custom home directory for GPG > and configured the registry entry for HKCU\GNU\GNUPG\HomeDir=... The > script functions fine when someone is logged into the system with the > user account exe

Re: decrypt adding ^M characters at the end of each line

2011-08-02 Thread David Tomaschik
rriage return character. (Aka \r.) David -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://systemoverlord.com da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://li

Re: Smartcard durability?

2011-07-28 Thread David Tomaschik
e any damage concerns from wallet > storage, for instance? > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administr

Re: Assertion failure from gnupg with enigmail 1.2

2011-07-12 Thread David Tomaschik
Sorry, this was intended to be sent to the entire list, but I composed it in a hurry my apologies. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 4:24 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: > assert() kills the program if the value in the parentheses evaluates > to FALSE.  In this case, that means that "data&qu

Re: 4096 bit keys

2011-03-22 Thread David Tomaschik
a way to get at your key (or rather, your plaintexts). The ability to "casually" decrypt even 1024-bit keys is nowhere near. (And by "casually", I mean a difficulty similarly to what it takes to wiretap a phone.) [1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006 -- David Tomaschik, RH

Re: "This key may be unsafe" - Redux

2011-03-07 Thread David Tomaschik
> I am not aware of any GnuPG command in Terminal that would display or > warn about this situation. Is there any, or should there be any? > > > [...] > > TIA. > Charly > > > > > > > ___ > Gnupg-users mailing

Re: OpenPGP Card source

2011-03-03 Thread David Tomaschik
lot of time - time we can > only spend as part of a paid project. > > > Shalom-Salam, > >   Werner > > -- > Die Gedanken sind frei.  Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source Advocate OpenPGP: 0x5DEA789B http://syst

Re: Why do we use a different key to sign than to encrypt

2011-03-01 Thread David Tomaschik
uot;same key" on that page only applies where the RSA encryption was done to the plain text directly. Likewise, OpenPGP signing is done on a hash of the plain text. (Again, not on the plain text directly.) David -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 System Administrator/Open Source

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 08:59 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/28/2011 08:41 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: >> Other than on systems where $HOME is on a filesystem that does not >> support sockets (e.g., NFS/CIFS/etc.), is anyone aware of an issue with >> the use of --use-standard-s

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 08:20 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/28/2011 06:49 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: >> Each process has its own copy of the environment inherited from its >> parent, so it's not possible to change the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable for >> all processes. You

Re: Security of the gpg private keyring?

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 05:40 PM, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Monday 28 February 2011 at 3:47:16 PM, in > , > Guy Halford-Thompson wrote: > > >> Thanks for the help, didnt really occur to me how much >> info is available in the public keyring, guess you cant >> do much about it tho. > > > I think key UID

Re: Restarting gnupg-agent inside X session

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 06:17 PM, Marco Steinacher wrote: > Hi, > > I use a OpenPGP smartcard with gnupg 2.0.14 and Ubuntu for different > tasks. From time to time I face the following problem: The gpg-agent > crashes for some reason after entering the PIN, 'ps' reports the daemon > process as a zombie > >

Re: Question regarding shared keys

2011-02-28 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/28/2011 05:38 PM, Denise Schmid wrote: > Thanks all for your help. > > Now, the story gets even more funny: They claim to have used PGP split-key, > then encrypted the files with a randomized key, then encrypted the key with > individual keys. > > So far so bad. But now comes the best: Th

Re: PGP/MIME considered harmful for mobile

2011-02-27 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/27/2011 12:21 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 2/26/11 9:24 PM, Jameson Rollins wrote: >> http://josefsson.org/inline-openpgp-considered-harmful.html > > * IT DOESN'T HANDLE ATTACHMENTS. That's fine with me: 95%+ of my > messages don't require attachments. Any technology that can hit 95% o

Re: SCR3310 reader working for root, but not scard group

2011-02-26 Thread David Tomaschik
On 02/26/2011 10:29 PM, Grant Olson wrote: > On 02/26/2011 08:52 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: >> I have a 3310 and with pcscd, I haven't even found the need to use the >> scard group. I have found that occasionally I have to restart >> scdaemon in order to get new re

Re: SCR3310 reader working for root, but not scard group

2011-02-26 Thread David Tomaschik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a 3310 and with pcscd, I haven't even found the need to use the scard group. I have found that occasionally I have to restart scdaemon in order to get new readers/cards recognized. I haven't narrowed it down specifically yet. (I just got my

Smart Card Physical Best Practices?

2011-02-26 Thread David Tomaschik
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've recently received my smart card, but was wondering what the "best practices" are, mainly from a physical standpoint. When I use it in my laptop reader, it sticks about 2" out of the side, and I have some concern about this (i.e., getting damaged

Re: Help with OpenPGP plugin in Mozilla Thunderbird and Claws Mail

2011-02-13 Thread David Tomaschik
ndensed form of the message. Then you encrypt that with your PRIVATE key. That is a signature A recipient can attempt to decrypt the signature using your public key. If they are able to, they know your private key was used to produce the signature, and if you have kept control of your private key,

ID-000 SmartCard Form Factor

2011-01-28 Thread David Tomaschik
While I realize that the ID-1 (full size) cards can be used with card readers that support PIN entry, are there any other advantages/disadvantages to one size over the other? At present, I feel like the ID-000 form factor has more advantages because of the portability and the lower cost of the read

SmartCard Import/Export

2011-01-26 Thread David Tomaschik
to end up with any import taxes/customs trouble. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 GNU/Linux System Architect GPG: 0x5DEA789B da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Prosecution based on memory forensics

2011-01-13 Thread David Tomaschik
not for a lab. > > > Shalom-Salam, > > Werner > > As usual, it all depends on your threat model. If you're really paranoid, don't use gpg-agent. :) -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 GNU/Linux System Architect GPG: 0x5DEA789B da...@systemoverlord.com

Re: [OT] broken threading via gmane

2010-12-12 Thread David Tomaschik
t; particular group. Is there anyone who could, please, fix this? > > PS. I send this message via Gmane with an ID: > > <874oaiocpp.fsf%lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl<874oaiocpp.fsf%25lukasz.stelm...@iem.pw.edu.pl> > > > -- > Miłego dnia, > Łukasz Stelmach > > > _

Re: Best Practices

2010-12-11 Thread David Tomaschik
"right". David On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 12/10/2010 9:16 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: > > Are there any disadvantages to distinct signature & encryption keys? > > None that I've found. > > > Is the weakness in the hash

Re: Best Practices

2010-12-10 Thread David Tomaschik
I appreciate everyone's feedback on this matter. Comments/questions below... On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 12/9/2010 11:08 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: > > I feel bad for the "litter" this introduces to the keyservers. > > Don'

Best Practices

2010-12-09 Thread David Tomaschik
f encryption is changing so rapidly, I thought the insights of this group might be useful in my next steps. Your help is appreciated. -- David Tomaschik, RHCE, LPIC-1 GNU/Linux System Architect da...@systemoverlord.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gn