Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-03-01 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 El 25-02-2013 19:54, Peter Loshin escribió: ... > 2. On keeping an encrypted backup of my secret key material, what > method is recommended for doing that? (Presumably something like > "gpg --export-secret-keys | gpg --output secretkeymatter.gpg >

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-03-01 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/01/2013 06:06 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: > On 03/01/2013 12:07 AM, Doug Barton wrote: .. > >> I hope you'll reconsider your decision. > > I certainly continuously consider constructive feedback on the > setup, so will give it some mor

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-03-01 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/01/2013 12:07 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 02/28/2013 09:33 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: | for a > service that specifically targets the OpenPGP community, I | > consider using the OpenPGP WoT more appropriate than any CA | > Corporation. >

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-28 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/28/2013 09:33 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: | for a service that specifically targets the OpenPGP community, I | consider using the OpenPGP WoT more appropriate than any CA | Corporation. Kristian, I certainly understand that perspective,

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-28 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Mark, A belated answer to this email, as I'm reading through the backlog of emails. On 02/26/2013 03:43 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 05:54:34PM -0500, Peter Loshin wrote: >> 3. On using a keyserver with HKPS support: when I

Re: [Sks-devel] pool.sks-keyservers.net issues (was: Questions about OpenPGP best practices)

2013-02-28 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2013-02-27 at 10:57 +0100, Niels Laukens wrote: > Apologies for cross-posting to both mailing lists, but since I got > replies via both ways I feel this is the easiest way to sync them. Current status: Kristian and I have debugged and he found the core issue. If I load down my server, we can s

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/26/2013 06:43 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > That service presents a self-signed certificate (I checked), which > means that if you do not already have a copy of that cert. installed in > your browser and marked trusted, then it cannot be verified. This is not correct. As noted on the web site [

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
I got a new error today: gpg: sending key 1A1ABC84 to hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net gpgkeys: HTTP post error 22: The requested URL returned error: 417 Expectation Failed Never seen that one before. :) Overall the performance of the sks-keyservers pool has been great for me though. Thank

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/26/2013 02:19 AM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 26/02/13 07:43, Doug Barton wrote: That worked for me, although I was a bit disappointed that placing the cert at /etc/ssl/certs/ca.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net.cert didn't work like all the docs said it should. Please realise that if it would ha

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 05:54:34PM -0500, Peter Loshin wrote: > 3. On using a keyserver with HKPS support: when I attempt to connect > (via Chrome) to https://sks-keyservers.net/, I get an error headlined > "The site's security certificate is not trusted!", stating " the > server presented a certif

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 26/02/13 11:56, Werner Koch wrote: > Thus, it won't harm you to add such a kind of Salvation Army CA. Okay, you made me laugh out loud, thanks :). It probably won't hurt to add the sks-keyservers CA, although I don't know how well they guard their private key. Probably fairly well, these are c

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:19, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > In other words, trusting a certificate authority is currently an > all-or-nothing > thing where you now trust them to certify any SSL-protected service > you connec Right, they are all implicitly cross-signed. In reality there is no sec

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread kristian . fiskerstrand
ender: gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:14:13 To: GnuPG Users Subject: Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 26/02/13 07:43, Doug Barton wrote: > That worked for me, although I was a bit disappointed that placing the cert at > /etc/ssl/certs/ca.hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net.cert didn't work like all the > docs said it should. Please realise that if it would have worked, you would have installed that sk

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Niels Laukens
On 2013-02-26 09:14, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/25/2013 11:52 PM, Niels Laukens wrote: >> I find *.sks-keyservers.net unusable (unfortunately). >> >> More often than not, I get this: >> gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: End of file >> >> tcpdump shows me that the server just cl

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:52, ni...@dest-unreach.be said: > It does work from time to time, so when doing a manual --recv-key, I > usually get the key within a few tries. But when using e.g. caff (which The problem is that this is a pool of servers and you don't know which one you are currently usin

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-26 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/25/2013 11:52 PM, Niels Laukens wrote: > I find *.sks-keyservers.net unusable (unfortunately). > > More often than not, I get this: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: End of file > > tcpdump shows me that the server just closes the connection without an > answer. > It does wor

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Niels Laukens
On 2013-02-26 07:51, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 02/25/2013 02:54 PM, Peter Loshin wrote: >> 1. "Don't use pgp.mit.edu". Which keyserver *should* be used? I assume >> that a pool is better than a particular server; is there one >> particular pool that is preferred? What about >> http://pool.sks

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/25/2013 11:28 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > lots, this one for example: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuTLS hmm, i don't use ubuntu myself, but i believe that documentation is wrong, particularly this section: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuTLS#Deploying_the_Certificates That

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/25/2013 11:10 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: | On 02/25/2013 10:43 PM, Doug Barton wrote: |> The Best Practices page you posted above actually suggests: |> |>keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net |>keyserver-options ca-cert-fil

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/25/2013 10:43 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > The Best Practices page you posted above actually suggests: > > keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net > keyserver-options ca-cert-file=/path/to/CA/sks-keyservers.netCA.pem > > That worked for me, although I was a bit disappointed that placi

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 02/25/2013 02:54 PM, Peter Loshin wrote: > 1. "Don't use pgp.mit.edu". Which keyserver *should* be used? I assume > that a pool is better than a particular server; is there one > particular pool that is preferred? What about > http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/? You should use hkp:// instead of ht

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/25/2013 02:54 PM, Peter Loshin wrote: Many thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for pointing to the best practices page (https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices); this information is very helpful. Some questions about the information on this page: 1. "Don't use pgp.mit.edu".

Re: Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Grant Olson
On 2/25/13 5:54 PM, Peter Loshin wrote: > > 1. "Don't use pgp.mit.edu". Which keyserver *should* be used? I assume > that a pool is better than a particular server; is there one > particular pool that is preferred? What about > http://pool.sks-keyservers.net/? > Yep, that's the one you want. >

Questions about OpenPGP best practices

2013-02-25 Thread Peter Loshin
Many thanks to Daniel Kahn Gillmor for pointing to the best practices page (https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices); this information is very helpful. Some questions about the information on this page: 1. "Don't use pgp.mit.edu". Which keyserver *should* be used? I assume th