Re: Quieten gpg-agent output?

2011-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:47, li...@chrispoole.com said: > Is there a better way to get rid of these "errors"? Yes, use gpg2. Using gpg and gpg-agent is just a kludge. gpg2 requires gpg-agent and thus we don't need those messages there anymore. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind fr

Bad Signatures when using check-sigs

2011-12-16 Thread David Tomaschik
When executing gpg --check-sigs, there are reports of "bad signatures." What makes a signature "bad"? For example, on a key I signed that has several UIDs, one of my signatures on one UID is reported as bad, but the rest are fine. I looked in the docs, but didn't find anything... hope I'm not mi

keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread gnupg
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 permanently? What if someone were to generate say, 10,000 keypairs with "offensive" uid names, and then sign my key with each o

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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 permanently? yes, this is correct. :( > What if someone were to

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread David Shaw
On Dec 16, 2011, at 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 permanently? Essentially, yes. Things are theoretically r

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread Johan Wevers
On 16-12-2011 16:51, 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 permanently? Yes. Of course, you can remove it locally. > What if

re: keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread vedaal
What if keyservers were to limit the amount of keys generated or uploaded to a 'reasonable' amount which no 'real' user would exceed? (i.e. 10/day, or some other number discussed and agreed upon by the various keyservers?) vedaal ___ Gnupg-users m

Re: keyserver spam

2011-12-16 Thread Jerome Baum
On 2011-12-16 20:07, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote: > What if keyservers were to limit the amount of keys generated or > uploaded to a 'reasonable' amount which no 'real' user would > exceed? > > (i.e. 10/day, or some other number discussed and agreed upon by the > various keyservers?) What proble