I love Free Software: Thanks to all the GnuPG contributors

2015-02-14 Thread Matthias Kirschner
Dear GnuPG developers and contributors, today is “I love Free Software”-Day. A day to thank all the hard working people behind Free Software. So instead a bug report, a feature request, or discussing a problem today I want to thank all the people involved in GnuPG coding and promoting. This is f

ilovefs: Thank you, Werner and GnuPG users and developers

2015-02-14 Thread NIIBE Yutaka
Hello, Werner and GnuPG lovers, I'd like to share Matthias Kirschner's article today. http://blogs.fsfe.org/mk/i-love-free-software-thanks-to-all-the-gnupg-contributors/ And I'd like to say, thank you to all in this opportunity. Well, let me wrote something to celebrate http://ilovefs.org/ In

Re: Tilde (~) in valid email address

2015-02-14 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Fr 13.02.2015, 19:54:44 schrieb @bitmessage.ch: > When generating a uid for a key using gpg2 (2.0.25), and attempting to > input an email address containing a tilde (~), I receive an invalid > email error. There seems to be no way I can find to bypass this > restriction, and use my "invalid" ema

Re: Key keeps showing unknown trust

2015-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:03, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > gpg2 --list-keys for me looks at /home/dkg/.gnupg/pubring.kbx even > though /home/dkg/.gnupg/pubring.gpg exists. Right, but only if pubring.kbx has the OpenPGP flag set: $ kbxutil ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx | head -10 | grep ^Flag Flags:

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:05, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: > Hmmm. Some exotic uses with ElGamal keys were removed after a bug was > discovered AFAIK. And thinking on some discussions about pgp 2 The reason for Elgamal signing keys was that back when I started with GnuPG it was not clear whether DS

Re: SSH generic socket forwarding for gpg-agent

2015-02-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:23, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > Encouraging this kind of use seems risky. I certainly wouldn't want to > do it without being able to have gpg-agent prompt me on my local machine > for each use of the key. Its current silent operation once the Similar as with smartcards

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 7:41:14 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Postel's sentiments were more, "Reject traffic that > does not conform to the spec, even if it's in common > use; accept traffic that conforms to the protocol spec, > eve

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 1:14:25 PM, in , Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2015 12:22:23 +, MFPA stated: >> My preference is Inline: I want everything right there >> in the message body where I can see it. > Exactly what is it you feel

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 11:28:43 AM, in , Stephan Beck wrote: > BAD Signature from xx I get that as well. > As a > security measure I have assigned your key a non-trust > attribute. Is that something like a local signature? - --

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Friday 13 February 2015 at 5:12:18 PM, in , Ville Määttä wrote: > Fortunately it certainly does not. I doubt that many spam emails contain an inline OpenPGP signature, or text that looks like one. - -- Best regards MFPA

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-12 23:46, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Hello, > > in my quest of the perfect setup, I am asking myself what is the > prefered way to sign a message: inline (like this one) or using a MIME header > ? > > Is there a big thumb rule to respect ? > > Regards > -- > Sent with my mu4e This is

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Rejecting traffic that does not conform to the spec, even if it's in > common use is counter-intuitive. To you, perhaps, sure -- to me, no. Either way it doesn't matter; the guidance is what it is, and many counterintuitive things turn out to be true. > It seems to be denying yourself access

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.1.2 released

2015-02-14 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2015-02-11 14:40:39 -0500, Werner Koch wrote: > The GnuPG Project is pleased to announce the availability of the > third release of GnuPG modern: Version 2.1.2. Thank you, Werner! 2.1.2 is now in debian experimental, where it builds cleanly on all architectures: https://buildd.debian.or

Re: Tilde (~) in valid email address

2015-02-14 Thread BM-2cTjsegDfZQNGQWUQjSwro6jrWLC9B3MN3
> > When generating a uid for a key using gpg2 (2.0.25), and attempting > > to input an email address containing a tilde (~), I receive an > > invalid email error. There seems to be no way I can find to bypass > > this restriction, and use my "invalid" email. > > You need --allow-freeform-uid to

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-14 14:33, MFPA wrote: > Hi > > > On Friday 13 February 2015 at 7:41:14 PM, in > , Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > > > Postel's sentiments were more, "Reject traffic that > > does not conform to the spec, even if it's in common > > use; accept traffic that conforms to the protocol spec, >

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Doug Barton
FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, especially when they try to use that as the basis of their arguments for/against one method or the other. On 2/14/15 7:49 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: Pro

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 2015-02-14 13:36, Doug Barton wrote: > FWIW, I hate this debate, and try hard to stay out of it. But it really > bothers me when people spread factually incorrect information, especially > when they try to use that as the basis of their arguments for/against one > method or the other. > > On 2/

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi Am 14.02.2015 um 15:44 schrieb MFPA: > Hi > > > On Friday 13 February 2015 at 11:28:43 AM, in > , Stephan Beck wrote: > > > >> BAD Signature from xx > > I get that as well. > > > >> As a >> security measure I have assigned your key a non-trust >> attribute. > > Is that something like

Re: MIME or inline signature ?

2015-02-14 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > This part appears to be out of date: > > Since PGP/MIME can't reliably be sent to the three largest GnuPG > mailing lists, itâs hard to claim that PGP/MIME is ready for > widespread usage. For now, itâs best