Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:21:31PM +0100, Peter Lebbing wrote: > On 22/03/16 20:53, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: > > > the docs are like a maze and not clearly structured > > A reasonably fair criticism... writing good documentation is hard, > very hard. In fact, it turned out to be easier to write acad

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> And that doesn't even get into the issues involved with selecting a > format for producing the documentation in. Consider the following: Preach it, Brother Ben. And it's not just about formats, it's also about targets, because each of these formats works best with different targets. Do we wan

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:56:27PM +, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > > IMHO the only thing to do with E-usage primary keys is revoke them > and start again from scratch. The only reason they are even still > allowed in GPG is for backwards compatibility, right...? Right. Primary keys MUST be C-us

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > > Primary keys MUST be C-usage and MAY be SCA usage, by default they're > SC, but simply creating an S-usage subkey moves the S function to the > subkey (by default GPG will select the newest subkey with a given > capability to perform that f

Re: AES-GCM and AEAD Protected Data Packet (IETF draft)

2016-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:41, m...@tankredhase.de said: > Crypto primitives written in JS are widely considered to be insecure > due to timing attack vectors. This is why the WebCrypto api was and due to lot of other reasons. But this is not a JavaScript specific thing but matter of fact for all so

All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Guan Xin
Hi All, All mails from gnupg-users are identified as spams by gmail since yesterday. Google says that the mailing list "is in violation of Google's recommended email sender guidelines". Why does it happen? This is the first time that I see 100% false positive of the gmail spam filter. Guan _

[admin] Mail problems yesterday

2016-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! There was a small problem with the mailing list server yesterday [1]. In case your MTA is sending or receiving via an IPv6 address you may have missed some mails or posted mails may have get lost. If they don't show up today, please resent your mail or check the mail archives. Sorry for that

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:11:28 +0100, Guan Xin stated: >All mails from gnupg-users are identified as spams by gmail since >yesterday. Google says that the mailing list "is in violation of >Google's recommended email sender guidelines". > >Why does it happen? This is the first time that I see 100% fa

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:11:28 +0100 Guan Xin wrote: Hello Guan, >Why does it happen? Google are a law unto themselves. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Looking for something I can call my own Chairman Of The Bo

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Pete Stephenson
On Mar 25, 2016 12:21 PM, "Guan Xin" wrote: > > Hi All, > > All mails from gnupg-users are identified as spams by gmail since yesterday. Google says that the mailing list "is in violation of Google's recommended email sender guidelines". > > Why does it happen? This is the first time that I see 10

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Bjarni Runar Einarsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:48, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > > > I'm entirely open to packaging gpgme-tool separately from the -dev > > package, if there is a clear and compelling argument for it. > > As of now it is not re

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Antony Prince
On March 25, 2016 9:24:00 AM EDT, Brad Rogers wrote: >On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:11:28 +0100 >Guan Xin wrote: > >Hello Guan, > >>Why does it happen? > >Google are a law unto themselves. May be a reverse lookup issue. Werner mentioned he added a V6 address to the server yesterday. Some MTA's do a r

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 11:19:39 -0400 Antony Prince wrote: Hello Antony, >May be a reverse lookup issue. Werner mentioned he added a V6 address >to the server yesterday. I hope it is something as readily sorted as that (and I hope it already has been), but the point remains; google are a big eno

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Donach mc kenna
Well, this has come thru fine to my Primary Gmail inbox, so I'm not experiencing that. *Donach McKenna DEA & GDA* *For all your energy efficiency and renewable energy needs.* On 25 March 2016 at 15:19, Antony Prince wrote: > On March 25, 2016 9:24:00 AM EDT, Brad Rogers wrote: > >On Fri,

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 04:37:59AM -0400, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > And that doesn't even get into the issues involved with selecting a > > format for producing the documentation in. Consider the following: > > Preach it, Brother Ben. :-D > And it's not just about formats, it's also about tar

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:19, ant...@blazrsoft.com said: > May be a reverse lookup issue. Werner mentioned he added a V6 address > to the server yesterday. Some MTA's do a reverse lookup on the inbound > mail IP and if it does not match, the mail is flagged as spam. I could Exactly. FWIW, We do the

Re: Verification via the web of trust

2016-03-25 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 06:43:20PM +, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 22/03/16 18:30, Peter Lebbing wrote: > > On 22/03/16 19:14, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > >> All this is true. But this does not help *me* one iota. > > > > It sounds to me like you're not looking for the Web of Trust, which is >

Re: All mails identified as spams by Google

2016-03-25 Thread Guan Xin
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Werner Koch wrote: > > Exactly. FWIW, We do the same for all incoming mail. It was my fault > that I had not explicitly assigned the v6 address of lists.gnupg.org and > so when I added a new v6 address that address was picked up and its > reverse lookup showed g

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread listo factor
On 03/22/2016 09:21 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: ... writing good documentation is hard, very hard. In fact, it turned out to be easier to write academical papers on why it is so difficult to make crypto easy to use than to write documentation that makes crypto easy to use. It ~is~ hard, but only

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread Dashamir Hoxha
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:50 PM, listo factor wrote: > > To perform tasks that GPG is designed to accomplish in a safe manner > is *very, very hard*, and even the best documentation could not change > that fact. The efforts which concentrate on making it easy might > indeed increase the number of

Re: EasyGnuPG

2016-03-25 Thread listo factor
On 03/26/2016 03:55 AM, Dashamir Hoxha wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:50 PM, listo factor wrote: >> ... The efforts which concentrate on making it easy might >> indeed increase the number of people that use it, but at the >> expense... So, maybe they will be safer if they don't use GPG at a