Re: Remote signing?

2006-02-21 Thread Thomas Kühne
The attachment contains the preliminary final BETA version for remote signatures. Patch and recompile gpg-1.4-* to get 2 new commands: 1) gpg --print-seed SHA1 ./dir/to_be_signed_file Creates a signature seed. Can be combined with "--text". 2) gpg --sign-seed THE_SEED Use the signature seed to c

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, David Shaw wrote: > Anyway, that is (more or less) how I was expecting LDAP to be used. I > never added LDAP auth because I wasn't sure exactly what was needed, > and didn't want to implement it without some clear use case. The pam_ldap module has optional "binddn" and "bindpw" configuration

Re: Necessity of GPG when using SSL

2006-02-21 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Johan Wevers wrote: >Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > >>Usually, if you are using a web interface to access your email, only the >>initial authentication is done via SSL. After that if your URL address >>shifts to using an "http://"; rather than the "https://"; you made your >>initial connection with

Re: file encryption and integrity check

2006-02-21 Thread Francesco Turco
Roscoe ha scritto: Sure will. gpg -c is what you want. Make sure you are using a MDC, which means either using one of the 128bit blocksize ciphers (your gpg will probably use AES256 by default, which is good - gpg -vc to find out) or passing the --force-mdc option. so no need to hash files

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Haidinger
David Shaw wrote: > 5) Make this file: > > cat > pgp.ldif > dn: ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM > objectclass: organizationalUnit > ou: PGP Keys > > dn: cn=PGPServerInfo,ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM Change this line to: dn: cn=PGPServerInfo,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM beause GnuPG looks for PGPServerInfo unt

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:21:25PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > David Shaw wrote: > > 5) Make this file: > > > > cat > pgp.ldif > > dn: ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM > > objectclass: organizationalUnit > > ou: PGP Keys > > > > dn: cn=PGPServerInfo,ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM > > Change this li

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:10:40AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, David Shaw wrote: > > > Anyway, that is (more or less) how I was expecting LDAP to be used. I > > never added LDAP auth because I wasn't sure exactly what was needed, > > and didn't want to implement it without some clear use

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:15:08AM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > LDAP had TLS support back in 1.3.5. HTTP and FTP just got TLS support > > in 1.4.3. At one point, I started documenting the new options and > > stopped because the man page would be e

Re: GnuPG for PalmOS 5

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 07:58:36PM +0100, Wolfgang Klein wrote: > Is there any chance that there will be an implementation of GnuPG > for Palm handhelds in the near future? Not in the near future, no. There are vague possibilities if and when the new Palm OS (aka "Linux on a Palm") comes out, bu

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > > beause GnuPG looks for PGPServerInfo unter the base DN, > > > not under dn="ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM". > > > > Not exactly. It looks for PGPServerInfo under each DN returned fro

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Haidinger
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > beause GnuPG looks for PGPServerInfo unter the base DN, > > not under dn="ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM". > > Not exactly. It looks for PGPServerInfo under each DN returned from > namingContexts in order. It may well check for > "cn=PGPServerInfo,dc=DOM

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Haidinger
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:15:08AM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > > > LDAP had TLS support back in 1.3.5. HTTP and FTP just got TLS support > > > in 1.4.3. At one point, I started documenting the new optio

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Haidinger
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > > > > beause GnuPG looks for PGPServerInfo unter the base DN, > > > > not under dn="ou=PGP Keys,dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM". > > > > > > Not exactly.

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:42:56PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:12:32PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > > > > > > beause GnuPG looks for PGPServerInfo unter the base DN, >

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:35:02PM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > > > A LDAP keyserver would be useful as a company keyserver where people > > > > inside the company IP range or an administrator can add keys, and the > > > > rest of the world can just read. > > > > > > That eliminates tcp-wr

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread Walter Haidinger
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, David Shaw wrote: > > > The problem here is remote authentication. Each user would need some > > > way to authenticate to the LDAP server to give them the delete > > > ability. > > > > Every user could get this own DN just for authentication, like > > dn="uid=username,ou=

Re: OpenLDAP schema to store OpenPGP keys?

2006-02-21 Thread David Shaw
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:07:48AM +0100, Walter Haidinger wrote: > > Potentially dangerous. How sensitive is this password? > > Is a mode 600 file secure for your usage? > > Yes, I'd think so. After all, we're talking about protecting > a keystore of _public_ keys... > > If GnuPG could als

Re: file encryption and integrity check

2006-02-21 Thread Alphax
Francesco Turco wrote: > i have disabled compression becouse files i have to encrypt are already > compressed, and compression takes much more time then encryption. > > do you think it is a good choice? > IIRC GnuPG will detect if data is compressed before it tries to compress it; if so, it won