Re: SHA1 collision found

2017-02-24 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 23 February 2017 at 19:24, wrote: > Today was announced that SHA1 is now completely broken > https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first- > sha1-collision.html This is nonsense. Google security team calling sha1 "completely broken" simply means google's security team is complet

Re: Key Discovery Made Simple

2016-08-30 Thread Melvin Carvalho
5f3160" → wot:pubkeyAddress → http://melvincarvalho.com/melvincarvalho.asc ← is cert:key of ← Melvin Carvalho ... → foaf:mbox → "mailto:melvincarva...@gmail.com"; There exist web standards to do this. Would it be helpful at all for this use case? > > S

Re: about cartoon in FAQ 10.1. 'Correct, horse! Battery staple!'

2015-12-26 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 24 December 2015 at 17:02, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I do not fully understand why some 4 random words like > > Correct, horse! Battery staple! > > is a better passphrase like, for example > > Und allein dieser Mangel und nichts anderes führte zum Tod. > > i.e. some

PGP people said "I will only trust people I've had a beer with."

2015-11-19 Thread Melvin Carvalho
This is a great conversation in general, including the inventors of the web and the internet, pushing for more crypto http://www.w3.org/2015/10/27-tpac-minutes.html Vint: I would like to challenge people who are concerned about security...is there some irreducible level of inconvenience that's ne

Re: Facebook and OpenPGP

2015-10-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 October 2015 at 22:30, Kristian Fiskerstrand < kristian.fiskerstr...@sumptuouscapital.com> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/01/2015 10:28 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > Reference:

Re: Facebook and OpenPGP

2015-10-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 October 2015 at 17:56, Jon Millican wrote: > On 26 September 2015 at 03:24, Christian Heinrich < > christian.heinr...@cmlh.id.au> wrote: > > > > So as far as I am aware there is no integration with the Facebook > > GraphAPI yet :( > > Hi, I'm Jon - I work on OpenPGP support at Facebook. I th

Re: Facebook and OpenPGP

2015-10-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 October 2015 at 17:56, Jon Millican wrote: > On 26 September 2015 at 03:24, Christian Heinrich < > christian.heinr...@cmlh.id.au> wrote: > > > > So as far as I am aware there is no integration with the Facebook > > GraphAPI yet :( > > Hi, I'm Jon - I work on OpenPGP support at Facebook. I th

GPG UID

2015-09-03 Thread Melvin Carvalho
ive been looking at UID in gpg http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11 is there any way to add an URL instead of an email address? or to have both an emall and URL in a cert? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg

Re: gpg-agent as default ssh-agent on linux macines

2015-08-15 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 15 August 2015 at 17:25, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > On 08/15/2015 03:35 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > >> Is it possible to go the other way? openssh -> gpg >> >> I recently wrote an openssh -> X.509 converter in nodejs >> >> https://github.co

Re: gpg-agent as default ssh-agent on linux macines

2015-08-15 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 15 August 2015 at 08:50, Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote: > On 08/14/2015 10:44 PM, Kai Lemke wrote: > >> gpg v2.1 claims to be easy to use for SSH-authentification, too. >> For me that's really great, because you can have on public key with >> subkeys for all purposes, but I tried some configs I f

Re: Facebook and OpenPGP

2015-06-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 June 2015 at 16:30, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Facebook has just this morning announced limited support for OpenPGP. > At present, it's limited to allowing users to upload an OpenPGP > certificate, and Facebook using that certificate to encrypt all email > communications between Facebook and

Re: Thoughts on Keybase

2015-01-02 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 15 December 2014 at 19:40, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Keybase (https://keybase.io) is trying to solve the Web of Trust problem > in a new way. They're currently in beta, but I was able to snag an > invitation. (I have no invites to give out, unfortunately.) The following > is just a write-up

Re: making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

2014-02-04 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 4 February 2014 15:47, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/04/2014 09:01 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > Having said that, you might look at how OpenSSH has included X.509 > > certificates in its operation. There is precedent for something like > > what you suggest. > > fwiw, the answer here is "t

Re: making the X.509 infrastructure available for OpenPGP

2014-02-04 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 4 February 2014 15:47, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/04/2014 09:01 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > > Having said that, you might look at how OpenSSH has included X.509 > > certificates in its operation. There is precedent for something like > > what you suggest. > > fwiw, the answer here is "t

Re: Why OpenPGP is not wanted - stupid is in vogue right now

2013-06-11 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 10 June 2013 10:46, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > My personal observations agrees with Rob Hansen's studies 100%. > Even when required to use encryption people hate doing it and > their concept is entirely focused on the ciphering with them > thinking that people who use encryption are trying to

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

2013-06-04 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 3 June 2013 19:20, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 06/03/2013 08:04 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > Bitcoin is essentially a ledger where you have an array of fingerprints > > (160 bit hashes of a public key) and a value (number of coins in wallet). > > i thought that

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

2013-06-03 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 1 April 2013 19:46, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 04/01/2013 12:24 PM, adrelanos wrote: > > > gpg uses only(?) 40 chars for the fingerprint. > > (I mean the output of: gpg --fingerprint --keyid-format long.) > > this is a 160-bit SHA-1 digest of the public key material and the > creation dat

Re: Vanity Key@@sig

2013-04-08 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 3 April 2013 19:39, Andreas Mattheiss wrote: > Well, uhm, if it's really important to you: > > The concept of hashes/fingerprints/etc. is that it is (next to) impossible > to find an entity-to-be-hashed (here a key) if you specify the hash. In > fact a hash function that allows you to do this w

Re: Vanity Key

2013-04-08 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 2 April 2013 18:45, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 04/02/2013 05:40 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > In bitcoin you have the concept of a 'vanity key' much like vanity > license > > plates, see: > > > > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804

Vanity Key

2013-04-02 Thread Melvin Carvalho
In bitcoin you have the concept of a 'vanity key' much like vanity license plates, see: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=25804.0 I wonder if there is anything similar for public keys in GPG? What would you iterate on, the key or the fingerprint? ___

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

2013-04-02 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 2 April 2013 02:04, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 4/1/2013 6:38 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > differential path attack. On 8 November 2010, he claimed he had a fully > > working near-collision attack against full SHA-1 working with an > > estimated complexity equi

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

2013-04-01 Thread Melvin Carvalho
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 wrote: >> >> > gpg uses only(?) 40 chars for the fingerprint. >> > (I mean the output of: gpg --fingerprint --keyid-format

Re: OpenPGP Authentication Protocol?

2012-12-23 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 23 December 2012 23:17, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 12/23/2012 04:42 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: > > Am So 23.12.2012, 16:31:01 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > > > >> the ssh specification declares the use pgp-style certificates: > >> > >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4253#section-6.6 > >> >

Re: WOT and Authentication Research

2012-12-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 5 December 2012 23:15, Patrick Baxter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Melvin Carvalho > wrote: > > > > Not sure I've grokked everything in this thread, but some thoughts. > > > I'm working on the TL;DR version :). > > > Tying a key to

Re: import trustdb.gpg or start from scratch?

2012-11-13 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 12 November 2012 10:13, Werner Koch wrote: > On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:33, melvincarva...@gmail.com said: > > > gpg --import-ownertrust trustdb.gpg > > That does not work. --import-ownertrust expects the format as produced > by --export-ownertrust. What you can do is to put trustdb.gpg into an

Re: import trustdb.gpg or start from scratch?

2012-11-10 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 8 November 2012 14:01, Werner Koch wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 09:37, melvincarva...@gmail.com said: > > > Does anyone know if there's a safe way to recover my web of trust, or > > should I make an ultimately trusted key first, and start from scratch? > > ssh otherbox rm .gnupg/trustdb.gpg >

import trustdb.gpg or start from scratch?

2012-11-08 Thread Melvin Carvalho
I've just managed to recover my gpg key from an old machine that died. But the trust db was not imported. Does anyone know if there's a safe way to recover my web of trust, or should I make an ultimately trusted key first, and start from scratch? ___ Gn

Re: Is it possible to construct a GPG Certificate from an existing RSA key pair

2012-10-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 6 October 2012 18:34, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 10/06/2012 09:53 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > Is it possible to construct a GPG 'Certificate' from an existing RSA key > > pair? > > > > I've got some 2048 RSA keys I'd like to reu

Re: Is it possible to construct a GPG Certificate from an existing RSA key pair

2012-10-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 6 October 2012 16:15, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Sa 06.10.2012, 15:53:25 schrieb Melvin Carvalho: > > Is it possible to construct a GPG 'Certificate' from an existing RSA key > > pair? > > > > I've got some 2048 RSA keys I'd like to reuse, is ther

Is it possible to construct a GPG Certificate from an existing RSA key pair

2012-10-06 Thread Melvin Carvalho
Is it possible to construct a GPG 'Certificate' from an existing RSA key pair? I've got some 2048 RSA keys I'd like to reuse, is there any way I can use them to make everything I need for GPG? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lis

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-25 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 24 August 2012 22:06, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 08/24/2012 08:24 AM, peter.segm...@wronghead.com wrote: > > I propose to you (and to the people who are putting all that hard > > work into gpg) that there are actually two "things killing PKI": > > At risk of sounding dismissive, I really don

Re: what is killing PKI?

2012-08-24 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 24 August 2012 14:24, wrote: > On 23/08/12 17:07, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: > >> >> Deploying PKI is nowhere near as big of a problem as convincing people >> that PKI adds benefit to their lives. >> > > and > > Right now the number one thing killing PKI is the fact nobody

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-20 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 16 December 2011 18:50, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 12/16/2011 10:51 AM, gn...@lists.grepular.com wrote: >> I understand that once you've uploaded something to the keyservers, it >> can't be removed. Eg, if I sign someone elses key and upload that, it >> will be attached to their key perman

Re: digitally signing contracts

2011-10-31 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 30 October 2011 05:21, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > I own a small business that works with contractors all over the world, > and I'm currently scratching my head over the issue of signing > contracts. I know that gpg can/has been used to this purpose, but I > wanted to ask the list's advice. There

Re: STEED - Usable end-to-end encryption

2011-10-18 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 17 October 2011 20:11, Werner Koch wrote: > Hi! > > Over the last year Marcus and me discussed ideas on how to make > encryption easier for non-crypto geeks.  We explained our plans to > several people and finally decided to start a project to develop such a > system.  Obviously it is based on

Re: Useful factoid

2011-10-13 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 11 October 2011 22:32, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Accurate to 6%, there are 2**25 seconds in a year.  Worth remembering: > it makes certain kinds of computations much easier.  (It follows there > would be about 2**35 seconds in a thousand years, or 2**45 seconds in a > million.) > > E.g., let's

Re: Is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust?

2011-10-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 October 2011 20:55, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 06:56:36PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote: >> On Fri,  7 Oct 2011 11:51, aaron.topo...@gmail.com said: >> >     gpg --list-sigs --keyring ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg | sig2dot > >> > ~/.gnupg/pubring.dot 2> ~/.gnupg/pubring.error.txt >> >

Re: Is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust?

2011-10-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 October 2011 17:54, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 12:46:32PM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> This is awesome, thanks! > > No problem. It's pretty crazy stuff. > >> Is it possible to get a dump of all the signatures in a particular key >>

Re: Is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust?

2011-10-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 7 October 2011 11:51, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 10:26:59AM +0200, Melvin Carvalho wrote: >> Just wondering is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust? >> >> Is some of the signing data public and downloadable, or is it mainly private? > > Ye

Is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust?

2011-10-07 Thread Melvin Carvalho
Just wondering is there a way to browse the GPG web of trust? Is some of the signing data public and downloadable, or is it mainly private? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Adding Parameters to a Public Key

2011-09-13 Thread Melvin Carvalho
I've noticed that some apps add some fields on the end of your public key e.g. in Retroshare, the end of my key looks like this: -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- --SSLID--5bcc296e6b3e40c859a031dd6c0d07b3;--LOCATION--home; In this case: SSLID=5bcc296e6b3e40c859a031dd6c0d07b3 LOCATION=home A

Re: Extract numbers from a key

2011-08-03 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 2 August 2011 20:10, Sébastien wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know an easy way to get numbers used in a key. > For example, in a RSA key, N and e (used like this: message^e modulus N) Why do you want N and E? I think exponent is almost always 65537 Some apps display these numbers, e.g. fi

Re: Including public key

2011-07-28 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 28 July 2011 16:01, MFPA wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi > > > On Thursday 28 July 2011 at 12:53:41 PM, in > , Jay Litwyn wrote: > >> Attaching a photo to your public key might >> help. So might putting a phone number on your public >> key. > > I'm not too conv