Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Sandeep Murthy
just does not understand the issues involved and this idea will not go anywhere. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-18 Thread Sandeep Murthy
Hi I do think your key fingerprint should be made more visible on gpgtools.org and it would be a good idea to have instructions for users to do the checksum and verify the signature of the dmg (there are probably lots of people who don’t even know how to do checksums). Sandeep Murthy s.mur

Fwd: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-17 Thread Sandeep Murthy
. Both can be used at the same time, as I do, you don’t have to choose between them. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security > concerns > From: Sandeep Murthy > Date: 17 February

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-17 Thread Sandeep Murthy
and works well the other components of the GPG suite. I have not used Enigmail, but it’s simply a question of choice. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 17 Feb 2015, at 16:31, Martin Paljak wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Ville Määttä > wrote: >> Inste

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-17 Thread Sandeep Murthy
> > Actually, I've noticed that there was a very quick reply to this when it was > brought to the dev's attention. I'll leave this here for anyone else > interested > in following-up: > > > https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGTools_Core/commit/5186bade36acedfdc0b76f9f5ddfcfc004ec698b > > I'm not a

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-17 Thread Sandeep Murthy
> >> http://support.gpgtools.org/ > > If you are a security project, you should be thankful for people reporting > bugs, not trying to make it as hard as possible to report a serious bug. This > looks like more of a "users help users" forum kind of thing, nothing where > you would want to rep

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-17 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I have posted a message in the GPG Tools support forum copying the original post in this thread, letting the developers know of the concerns raised here. Perhaps you will see some comments in the near future. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 17 Feb 2015, at 13:31, Werner Koch wr

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-16 Thread Sandeep Murthy
> I'm guessing because you need an SSH key at GitHub in order to pull via SSH. > Yet another problem solved by git modules. > > Still, they could have at least changed it to https. GitHub supports pull/push via SSH or HTTPS therefore you can do this to with MacGPG (2) or any GitHub repo. > >>

Fwd: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-16 Thread Sandeep Murthy
If you have concerns or suggestions then the best thing would be to contact Luke Le, Steve or the other support staff on http://support.gpgtools.org/ Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > Begin forwarded message: > > Subject: Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-16 Thread Sandeep Murthy
are very responsive to posts on the GPG Tools support forum http://support.gpgtools.org/ The GitHub issues page for MacGPG is not the main places where issues are raised, it’s actually the support forum, where there are lots of other resources as well. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com >

Re: Crypto device where I need to confirm every operation?

2015-01-22 Thread Sandeep Murthy
could be compromised, the question only becomes interesting when it relates to particular attacks / exploits. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 23 Jan 2015, at 03:15, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> I was referring to exactly that - *somebody else* having "complete >

Re: Crypto device where I need to confirm every operation?

2015-01-22 Thread Sandeep Murthy
FTP or SSH, is recommended to either upgrade their Bash shell, or turn off these services completely, which is easy to do. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 22 Jan 2015, at 23:37, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> There are degrees of “control over your hardware” and complete

Re: Crypto device where I need to confirm every operation?

2015-01-22 Thread Sandeep Murthy
sources? Because it is using other ones, like dev/random, so there is no one point of weakness and from a practical point of view there is little risk. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 22 Jan 2015, at 18:44, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > >> To prevent such an attack, I imagine a de

Re: Are there cases where gpg --verify will exit 0, even if verification failed?

2015-01-14 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I know that all processes have an exit code, what I meant was if you invoke gpg interactively like gpg —edit-key and then execute a wrong subcommand or specify something incorrectly then the gpg exit code will not reflect this unless the subcommand launches another process. Sandeep Murthy s.mur

Re: Are there cases where gpg --verify will exit 0, even if verification failed?

2015-01-14 Thread Sandeep Murthy
process related to program functions, i.e. if you inside gpg editing a key and enter an incorrect subcommand or use it incorrectly then this will not affect the exit code, I don’t think. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 14 Jan 2015, at 07:51, Dave Pawson wrote: > > In Unix term

Re: Vanity Keys

2015-01-13 Thread Sandeep Murthy
D, how can this risk arise or is there still an issue with key servers? Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 13 Jan 2015, at 20:52, David Shaw wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2015, at 2:53 PM, NdK wrote: >> >> Il 13/01/2015 16:34, David Shaw ha scritto: >> >&

A passphrase for all keyrings

2015-01-12 Thread Sandeep Murthy
Hi At the moment one has to remember a passphrase for each keypair, which becomes more difficult as you have several emails each associated with different key pairs. Would it be possible to have one passphrase for the whole bunch of keypairs? Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com signature.asc

Re: Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

2015-01-06 Thread Sandeep Murthy
458317039047398248889922809181821393428829567971736994315246044 7027290669964066816 Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 7 Jan 2015, at 02:30, MFPA <2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > Hi > > > On Monday 5 January 2015 at 10:46:54 PM, in > , Nex6|Bill wrote

Re: Thoughts on Keybase

2015-01-06 Thread Sandeep Murthy
, in order to protect your private communications. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 7 Jan 2015, at 02:14, Mirimir wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 01/06/2015 06:04 PM, MFPA wrote: > > > >> Anyway, we have gone *way* off-topic. My original comment was inten

Re: Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

2015-01-05 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I think 4096 is enough for me, I don’t want to key of length 8192. I was just suggesting that the key generation dialogue in gpg could be improved. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 5 Jan 2015, at 22:46, Nex6|Bill wrote: > >> >> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:54 AM, San

Key generation, subkeys and improved documentation

2015-01-05 Thread Sandeep Murthy
first time users it seems these updates should be (and could be) made very quickly. I use GnuPG but I would also like to contribute. Would it be possible to clone the repo and make a pull request or something like that? Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com signature.asc Description: Message

Re: How to upgrade from 1.14.16 to 2.0.26 without duplicating, and related issues

2015-01-04 Thread Sandeep Murthy
. :) Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 4 Jan 2015, at 13:39, Philip Jackson wrote: > > On 04/01/15 13:18, Giordano Lipari wrote: >> My machine runs with on a Ubuntu 14.04 LTS distribution. This comes with a >> default GnuPG 1.4.16 located mainly in /usr/bin as

Re: photo-ID

2015-01-01 Thread Sandeep Murthy
/ImageHash (Python). Would it not be possible for gpg to incorporate these so that a user can attach a set of hash values for their photo(s) to their public key that recipients could check against some other source? Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 1 Jan 2015, at 02:30, Robert J. Han

Re: GPG (v. 1.4.12) is not user-friendly

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
usage: E [ultimate] (1). keybase.io/sandeepmurthy gpg> fpr pub 4096R/9EAB92B4 2014-12-30 keybase.io/sandeepmurthy Primary key fingerprint: AE7B 5571 64AF 1025 AF89 4180 6EA7 1DBC 9EAB 92B4 Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 30 Dec 2014, at 09:49, Kelly Dean wrote: >

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
I don’t agree. Why isn’t the photo ID feature not useful? Surely any piece of information that would help another person, with whom you are proposing to communicate, to identify you first, is a good thing. Before they can trust you enough to sign the key (which can’t be very often using the PGP

Re: Key selection

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
based program like Keychain (from MacGPG2 suite), because there the user can see the keys and know which one to edit. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 31 Dec 2014, at 16:54, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On 12/27/2014 02:41 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> On 12/27/14 9:36 AM,

Re: photo-ID

2014-12-31 Thread Sandeep Murthy
acceptable dimensions but not size. However some GUI key management tools, such as Keychain tool from the GPG Suite (https://gpgtools.org/) specify that photos must be < 500 KB and the recommended size be < 15 KB. Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 31 Dec 2014, at 12:42, Philip Jacks

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 135, Issue 42

2014-12-29 Thread Sandeep Murthy
, Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com > On 29 Dec 2014, at 15:28, gnupg-users-requ...@gnupg.org wrote: > > Send Gnupg-users mailing list submissions to > gnupg-users@gnupg.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.gnupg.org/m

[Gnupg-users]

2014-12-27 Thread Sandeep Murthy
points to one of the revoked keys rather than the active key. I have to explicitly give the short ID of the active key to edit that key and get its fingerprint. Is there a way to change this, or I am doing something wrong? Sandeep Murthy s.mur...@mykolab.com signature.asc Description: Message