demic and
> at times relies on unsourced facts and opinions. And sure enough,
> some of the theories sound almost conspiratorial. Still, the paper
> does a good job of evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the
> NSA's highly unexpected abandonment of ECC in a post
ser. (I think the
Administrators group is only added if an administrator has used Windows
Explorer to look in the user's home folder hierarchy).
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from the same drawbacks that TC does
(e.g. lack of GPT support).
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On 31/05/2014 06:57, Faramir wrote:
> El 30-05-2014 20:21, Mark Rousell escribió:
> ...
>> Note that there is also DiskCryptor for open source full disk
>> encryption on Windows. See http://diskcryptor.com. I've not tested
>> it but it does seem to work, alth
On 31/05/2014 08:42, Johan Wevers wrote:
> On 31-05-2014 8:35, Mark Rousell wrote:
>
>> All that said, Free OTFE might be a good basis on which to continue
>> development if the licence terms of TrueCrypt 7.1a turn out to be too
>> restrictive to allow a successful
adly). It will give people the warm and fuzzies because it's there but
few people who use Gmail will know why it's there or how to use it or
bother to use it.
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On 17/06/2014 15:55, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
> [...]
> Maybe an armored robotic #D Gnu might be a consideration.
Oh yes, excellent idea. :-)
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On 17/06/2014 18:47, Mick Crane wrote:
>
>
>> On 17 Jun 2014, at 17:53, Mark Rousell wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/06/2014 15:55, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Maybe an armored robotic #D Gnu might be a consideration.
>>
>> Oh y
s of critical importance to
liberty. By choosing to believe that privacy (or specifically privacy of
information) is a concept that has "fade"ed you are playing into the
hands of those who would wish to forcefully strip us all of privacy,
whether we like or or not. That would be a mistake, I
involves some extent of information
sharing, and always has, but that doesn't mean that privacy (and all the
nuanced concepts that are contained within that word) has somehow
evaporated the first time you communicate with someone, or travel
somewhere, etc.
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still does not mean that we need to share more than we want or
need to where we have a choice, and we still do have lots of choices in
this matter (especially in the context of my earlier message).
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ocks come, but nobody's
> listening to me. I'm getting in the way of the latest special about the
> Kardashians, you see...
I know what you mean. I have faith in the longer run but I'm not going
to like the process that we end up going through to get there because
people are not taking the threat seriously now, whilst there is still
time to prevent the worst.
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if you truly wanna be in control of your data, your gonna have to
> regulate and restrain yourself until your testicles are drawn over the
> back of your neck *or* accept it aint possible now, it may never be,
> and when you accept th
On 29/08/2014 09:29, Samir Nassar wrote:
> It is safe to say this thread has moved way off topic from being about using
> gnupg.
>
> Samir
Yes. My apologies for my part in taking it off-topic.
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estrain yourself until your testicles are drawn over the
> back of your neck *or* accept it aint possible now, it may never be,
> and when you accept that you'll keep out of the loony bin & fruit
> cake parlour
I think you are looking at the whole situation through defeatist
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Allen Schultz wrote:
> I think I figured ot what is acting as the gpg-agent in this newer
> install. Since they dropped WinPT and added Kleopatra, the interface
> changed to this (to me) annoying pinentry.exe asking for my passphrase.
> I think I will
I just thought the following might be helpful for Windows users of GnuPG
1.x.
I had been running 1.4.10 on Windows for some time and I thought it was
time I checked for an upgrade so I visited
http://www.gnupg.org/download/ to see if there was a new version. I
found that 1.4.11 was available but t
On 07/06/2012 11:27, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:54, pe...@digitalbrains.com said:
>
> If you look at my OpenPGP mail header you will be pointed to a “finger”
> address - enter it into your web browser (in case you don't know what
> finger is) and you will see
Just as an aside, I
On 09/06/2012 12:05, michael crane wrote:
>
> On Sat, June 9, 2012 10:28 am, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> On 07/06/2012 11:27, Werner Koch wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 21:54, pe...@digitalbrains.com said:
>>>
>>> If you look at my OpenPGP mail header you wi
On 10/06/2012 15:03, Sam Smith wrote:
> I wasn't going to say anything, but I had no idea what Mr. Koch was
> talking about with that "finger" stuff. I studied his email and the
> email header looking for clues. Couldn't decipher what he meant.
>
>> Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2012 10:28:04 +0100
>> From: ma
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On 10/06/2013 09:46, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:
> My personal observations agrees with Rob Hansen's studies 100%.
> Even when required to use encryption people hate doing it and their
> concept is entirely focused on the ciphering with them thinking
>
On 25/06/2013 09:56, Bob Henson wrote:
> I put it in a separate directory in the end, so I should have the best
> of both worlds. I don't think I have any 32bit processes in use - but
> I'm covered anyway.
If you run any 32bit programs at all (i.e. most applications) then the
system-supplied file
On 25/06/2013 14:31, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:40, jo...@netpage.dk said:
>
>> But if you do this, the extension won't be available in 32bit
>> processes! (32bit explorer.exe, file selection dialogues in 32bit
>
> Windows 7 64 bit has no more option to use a 32 bit explorer. This
On 26/06/2013 03:25, Mark Rousell wrote:
> On 25/06/2013 09:56, Bob Henson wrote:
>> I put it in a separate directory in the end, so I should have the best
>> of both worlds. I don't think I have any 32bit processes in use - but
>> I'm covered anyway.
>
> If y
m/seecurity/status/995906576170053633>, a
professor of computer security at the University.
(Re-sent as my outgoing server got a
"451-xx.xx.xx.xx+is+not+yet+authorized+to+deliver+mail+from" error first
time round.)
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m/seecurity/status/995906576170053633>, a
professor of computer security at the University.
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cs of individual users and use
cases, are not helping security, safety, or privacy (no matter what some
of the benefits of Signal may be).
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requires some
kind of active change by users who do need it is a reasonable and
sensible compromise imo.
In short, it is not necessary to entirely remove the ability to decrypt
legacy-encrypted data to have the effect of deprecating its use.
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lients
> and plug-ins like enigmail as a checkbox.
Personally I'd prefer that mail client did not provide an interface to
any "--legacy" options but it's up to mail client authors of course.
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dias is signal
> not a replaceable for e-mail, until the signal company does not offer a
> own e-mail service.
>
> That's just my gut instincts the future will share some lights into this
> EFAIL scandal.
I share this view.
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y code will reach end of life. If and
when that happens, I strongly suspect that there will still be users who
will need to decrypt legacy-encrypted data and I think it is important
that they can still do this with a maintained (2.x.y) code base. (And I
realise that this is easy for me to say since I&
On 20/05/2018 21:32, Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On 05/20/2018 08:45 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> I think it is important that they can still do this with a maintained
>> (2.x.y) code base.
>
> Support for PGP 2 has already been dropped from the current sta
to be
able to decrypt legacy-encrypted data.
[1] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060473.html
[2] https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-May/060474.html
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On 21/05/2018 09:54, Damien Goutte-Gattat via Gnupg-users wrote:
> On 05/21/2018 04:07 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> I think you mean that support for 2.0.y has been dropped, surely?
> No, I do mean that support for all PGP 2-related stuff has been dropped
> from the current stable
gt; continue over another end-to-end encrypted platform, such as Signal.”
>
> Because that couldn't possibly create a Chinese Whispers style
> situation of self-perpetuating FUD … 🤦
Very foolish and very slanted indeed in a certain direction.
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updated except to patch code vulnerabilities then so be it.
But do not throw your long-time users or their data under the bus for
the sake of eliminating backwards compatibility. Stability and
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bus". It's not a reasonable option.
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p box with LUKS. Or both.
You are proposing to alter archival data. That's not an option. If you
change it then you've changed the archive then it is no longer an
accurate archive.
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the archived data but to just cut them
off such that they have to use unmaintained software is not what one
should have to expect. It would be reckless.
And, as I say, continuing to support present day archival use cases does
not mean that the main body
monstrated attacks they released that have the gravest consequence
> here, it's that the number one recommended mitigation technique is to
> remove cryptographic functions from MUAs.
Without wanting to sound like a conspiracy geek, removing encryption
from email would, o
can make backwards-incompatible progress without
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On 21/05/2018 04:56, Jochen Schüttler wrote:
> Some people have the necessity to decrypt old data, so there should be a
> separate tool for them to do exactly that. It's the only way to start
> off fresh.
Agreed.
And I think that GnuPG 1.x provides this tool, doesn't it.
now obsolete
> encrypted material and that it can't be used to create such material
> anymore.
Seems reasonable to me, although does GnuPG 1.x already effectively
fulfil that role?
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throw present day, long-time users who must handle legacy-encrypted data
under the bus to do so.
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d data.
Preventing users from encrypting new data using legacy encryption does
NOT need to mean that other users have to be prevented from (quite
legitimately) accessing archived data using legacy encryption with
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they have
access to maintained software to access (i.e. decrypt only) this old
data (and this project is definitely the best source of such maintained
software) then that is enough to satisfy what I perceive as critical
requirements for many types of user in thi
On 22/05/2018 02:39, Mark Rousell wrote:
> Get real. These people are long-time GnuPG users and now you want to
> throw them under the bus because... well, because you prefer it that
> way. No, that's not a fair, it's not reasonable, it's not ethical, or
> it's eve
uld rightly and properly be
supported with maintained software.
I agree that preventing new data encryption with legacy standards is
desirable. Just don't throw other users (who need to decrypt old
standards and old data with currently maintained software) under t
is
list does not do this. If this was done, it would prevent your
list-forwarded emails showing up in your DMARC report.
I note that your bruckner.tk domain appears to have a p=none policy so,
if I understand all this correctly, it should not matter to you.
On 18/06/2018 18:24, Juergen BRUCKNER wrote:
> Hello Mark!
>
> Thank you very much for your answer and clarificattion.
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On 17/09/2018 19:53, C.J. Collier wrote:
>
> In short, GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts
> <http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.45.140> in the State
> of Washington!
>
Well done!
I expect that lesser people than you would have just given u
ut it).
SIMs are widely available for purchase with no identity requirements and
can very often be topped up anonymously for cash via newsagents. As for
phones, it's been a while since I bought a new phone (although I suspect
that it is still possible to buy them new for cash) but of course sec
d the person who introduced you to it. (Although
it would have been nicer for it to be declared openly as an affiliate link).
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signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
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his is the same as many other EU countries due to one of
the EU's data retention regulations whose name I've now forgotten.
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On 06/05/2019 16:27, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 11:17 AM Mark Rousell wrote:
>> Check your local laws first. I am pretty sure that doing that (specifically
>> the no logs bit) in the UK would now be a criminal offence. ;-) This is the
>> same as many o
trol
and license their use. The cassus belli for this will, I suspect, be
probably very widespread evasion of the forthcoming 'porn block' using
proxies and VPNs.
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s (or much of anything else connected with OpenPGP). But again,
perhaps this is also a bug of sorts. Perhaps there does need to be a way
for critical non-hierarchical Internet infrastructure like this to be
financed. Isn't Eric S. Raymond working on something like this right now?
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em that the attacker's
motivation is blindingly obvious and that good things definitely can and
*should* come of this shock to the system. The inertia to which I
referred was and is real.
And, let's face it, it's not as bad as either 911 or a suicide. This is
bad, but it's not a disaster. And a disaster *can* still be avoided in
this context. At risk of sounding like a politician, this is a wakeup call.
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th no
archive), i.e. the core service continues as it does now.
(Yes, I can well imagine that the death of the Yahoo Groups mail list
service could well happen soon but it has not been announced as yet).
Reference: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN31010.html
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unwillingly re-subscribed soon after.
(N.B. Mozilla.general isn't just accessible as a newsgroup; it's also
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On 04/11/2019 02:12, Mark Rousell wrote:
> The same thing is happening on the mozilla.general mail list at the
> moment although with a company called 'TheFork'. It has also happened
> in the past on mozilla.general with a wholesale cut flowers supplier
> called Avas Flower
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Barry wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a new version GnuPT has been published.
>
> New in this version:
>
> WinPT was updated to version 1.3.1 . There were many small bug fixes.
> Also an update for GnuPT-Portable
> .
>
> Barry
Do you have the URL for the web
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Most kind of you Robert, however I posted my message to prompt Barry to
perhaps provide the URL which he apparently missed out of his announcement.
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John W. Moore III wrote:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Mark Rousell wrote:
>>> I rather think it's up to someone posting an announcement about "new
>>> WinPT-Website" to provide the URL, don'
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