Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-27 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Doug Barton wrote: > I have a particular concern that if I sign a key with "I checked > carefully" that I really did. Moreover, I have a philosophical prejudice > that if I *can't* say "I checked carefully," why bother? > > That said, I have in the past run across

Re: Multiple Keyrings WAS Signing multiple keys

2011-08-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:46, sand...@crustytoothpaste.net said: > dpkg-source would lose the ability to verify packages before unpacking > them. apt's archive verification would break. That doesn't include Wrong. It uses gpgv which is a verification only tool; is uses a list of trusted keys (i.e

Re: Multiple Keyrings WAS Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
[some snippage] On 08/26/2011 14:29, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> BTW, this is another one of the reasons that I find the ability to have >> multiple keyrings useful, and would very much miss that functionality if >> it disappeared from gnupg 2.1.

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2011 14:56, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > >> One could certainly argue that my doing this is verification step is >> overly fussy (and you wouldn't be the first), but that's my policy. > > I honestly did not mean to be critical. I didn't

Re: Multiple Keyrings WAS Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:29:04PM +0100, Nicholas Cole wrote: > I *do* see the uses for them. The debian keyring, for example is > huge, and it is useful to be able to selectively include it or not in > the gpg.conf file. But there more I've thought about this, the more I > think that it would b

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > One could certainly argue that my doing this is verification step is > overly fussy (and you wouldn't be the first), but that's my policy. I honestly did not mean to be critical. I was just struggling to see the security benefit. After all

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Doug Barton
On 08/26/2011 14:18, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> http://dougbarton.us/PGP/gen_challenges.html > > Dear Doug, > > I don't mean this in a negative way, but I struggle to see the point > of such challenges. So feel free not to use them. :) > The

Re: Multiple Keyrings WAS Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >> BTW, this is another one of the reasons that I find the ability to have > multiple keyrings useful, and would very much miss that functionality if > it disappeared from gnupg 2.1. I know Warner has said all this before, but I sometimes think

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-26 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 08/25/2011 11:02, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> On 08/25/2011 11:56 AM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: >>> Do you want to sign every key in your keyring?  If so, it's not >>> hard to get gpg to e

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:37:35 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > caff $FPR1 $FPR2 ... > > Well, if I need to provide each key ID/fingerprint, then I might as well > write a simple loop: > > for KEYID in...; do > gpg --sign $KEYID > gpg --armor --export $KEYID

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Thursday 25 August 2011 at 7:02:52 PM, in , Aaron Toponce wrote: > If I have a public keyring of all the attendees of the > party, then I will want to sign every key in that > keyring. You could have a keyring that purported to be all the

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:35:09PM +0100, MFPA wrote in <531058786.20110825193509@my_localhost>: Hi On Thursday 25 August 2011 at 7:02:52 PM, in , Aaron Toponce wrote: If I have a public keyring of all the attendees of the party, then I will want to sign every key in that keyring. You coul

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Jameson Graef Rollins
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:02:52 -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > If I have a public keyring of all the attendees of the party, then I > will want to sign every key in that keyring. This should be very easy to script. See the following options: --keyring FILE --list-public-keys --with-colons and the

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/25/2011 11:02, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 08/25/2011 11:56 AM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: >> Do you want to sign every key in your keyring? If so, it's not >> hard to get gpg to enumerate all of your keys in a >> machine-parsable format (see

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Remco Rijnders
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:02:52PM -0600, Aaron wrote in <4e568e4c.8080...@gmail.com>: On 08/25/2011 11:56 AM, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote: Do you want to sign every key in your keyring? If so, it's not hard to get gpg to enumerate all of your keys in a machine-parsable format (see --with-colon

Re: Signing multiple keys

2011-08-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 08/25/2011 12:50 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > According to the gnupg(1) manpage, I see "--multifile" for encryption, > decryption and verification. Is it possible to use this to sign multiple > keys simultaneously? I don't have any keys to sign, or I would give this > a try (I guess I could manual