Re: 2.1.2: keyserver route failure

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:24, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > I don't have IPv6 routing, period. This raises the question of why > GnuPG is trying to reach an IPv6 address at all. Because the resolver tells that there is an record. It seems that we need to figure out at runtime whether v6 is act

Re: Compiled binaries execute but exit with "Abort"

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 14:18, er...@askerrol.org said: > #0 0xfedc28a4 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.1 > #1 0xff15367c in get_lock_object (lockhd=0xff16e3b0) at posix-lock.c:111 That is an assert() checking that the used library matches the one used for building. This is all in libgpg-error - ple

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:54, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > While this is much better from a security point of view, it still means that > building needs an internet connection. It would be nice to be able to build > it on an air-gapped machine, which I guess is quite a common use case for >

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:05, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > I suppose it might be a good idea to have a Qt GUI. That looks native Although Kleopatra is a KDE application there is not much of KDE in it and, iirc, Andre once suggested to turn it into a plain Qt application. Salam-Shalom, We

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:21, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > And even worse: Why did you decide to hide what is going on by > prefixing it with a @? This really feels like you are trying to deceit I also do this often to avoid cluttering the screen. No need to assume a backdoor. It is for a Ma

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:52, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > I do verify the fingerprint, and they are quite easy to find actually: > > https://help.github.com/articles/what-are-github-s-ssh-key-fingerprints/ > > First Google match for "GitHub SSH fingerprint". Using a search engine to find impo

[Announce] GnuPG 2.0.27 "stable" released

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
aded GnuPG version has not been tampered by malicious entities we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: 2048R/4F25E3B6 2011-01-12 [e

Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.1.2 released

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:03, bernh...@intevation.de said: > * What the items in section "What's New in GnuPG-2.1" actually meant, I should have read "What's New in GnuPG 2.1.2", sorry. > * "This version fixes a lot of bugs found after the release of 2.1.0" > which probably should have been "2.1.

Re: 2.1.2: keyserver route failure

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 12:59, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: > The most easy solution in such cases is to try IPv4 first, if that > doesn't work or is unavailable, try IPv6 if available. That server has no v4 address. For obvious reasons we use the standard version first and only then fallback to a

Re: Talking about Cryptodevices... which one?

2015-02-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 05:05, gni...@fsij.org said: > DINSIG (DIN V 66291-1) card > German Geldkarte > Telesec NKS card > pkcs#15 card > SmartCard-HSM card > > ... but I think that most are outdated, except the last one. DINSIG is still German standard (actually a pre-s

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:24, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: >> as did a few other maintainers. However there was not only not a >> consensus to do this more generally, there was active opposition to >> doing it at all. > > that's a bummer :( I guess that is a GPL issue. They don't want any GPLed

Re: 2.1.2: keyserver route failure

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 20:13, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > Reasonable IPv6 stacks should return an ENETUNREACH (Network is > unreachable) error message when trying to connect() to an address for > which there is no route, which should already cause dirmngr to failover The error handler after a con

Re: GNUPG 2.* and AIX - questions

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 12:16, aixto...@gmail.com said: > I took the hint and tried to package gnu/nth but make fails - immediately - > with this message. You might find something about this in bugs.gnupg.org. I have not tried gnupg 2.0.x on AIX for many years thus it is quite possible that you run

Re: Help need to use truecryt + openpgp applet.

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:22, o...@mirix.org said: > Your Java Card does probably not support PKCS #11. An applet on the card > might implement it. To make it work, you need a PKCS #11 middleware and PKCS#11 is an API between two applications. It is not directly related to smartcards. However, it

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
ingerprint = C1D3 4B69 219E 4AEE C0BA 1C21 E3FD FF21 8E45 B72B uid [ unknown] Werner Koch (wheatstone commit signing) -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. pgpAGiQ_oUbEz.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Gnup

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:16, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > I also like @ to hide useless output, but is downloading *and > executing* from a remote location really something you should hide? > Especially if everything else isn't hidden? Okay, someone please write a noscript extension for the l

Re: Compiled binaries execute but exit with "Abort"

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:01, er...@askerrol.org said: > Thanks. Now to figure out why make check fails but make works without > error. Are there dependencies besides pth for libgpg-error? Are you using a recent Pth version? I recall that older Pth versions had problems when used by programs which a

Re: Help need to use truecryt + openpgp applet.

2015-02-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 06:32, ranjin...@tyfone.com said: > Yes i used Scute. No success with it. I better ask OpenSC mailing list with > the help asking for the support for handle data objects even if the card > could store them.. You may want to checkout https://gnupg.org/service.html to find help f

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-20 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:29, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > Btw, does this mean that basically Ed25519 keys are stable enough now and > won't change anymore? I everything goes wrong, gpg will continue to support them if they don't make it into an RFC. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedan

Re: Help need to use truecryt + openpgp applet.

2015-02-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 08:48, ndk.cla...@gmail.com said: > since there's no on-card crypto involved. Just store the secret in an > SMS, with the "sender" set to the ID of the protected storage :) Or use a plain USB stick. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein

Re: Please remove MacGPG from gnupg.org due to serious security concerns

2015-02-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:36, luk...@dressyvagabonds.com said: > In order to work around the hang, we’re running this call in a separate > thread now, and if it doesn’t return within a few seconds (5 at the moment), > it sends a timeout to the scdaemon. Why not using a simple alarm() based watchdo

Re: Surprising command line options handling

2015-02-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 00:59, dani...@grinta.net said: > However, the ordering is not really enforced: this Right. Options and commands are actuallay interchangeable but that is an undocumented features. In fact the only difference between a command and an option is that tehre may only be one comm

Re: GNU-divert-to-card S2K format

2015-02-24 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:55, leonard.dal...@taztag.com said: > I have tried to find a description of this S2K format, but I haven't > found one. Does anyone know where I can find a description of this > "experimental" S2K ? doc/DETAILS shows this * GNU extensions to the S2K algorithm S2K mode 1

Re: GNU-divert-to-card S2K format

2015-02-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:49, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > something. It should be: > > S2K specifier 110 Well, it is 101. I just updated doc/DETAILS> It now reads: * GNU extensions to the S2K algorithm 1 octet - S2K Usage: either 254 or 255. 1 octet - S2K Cipher Algo: 0 1 octet - S2

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-02-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:57, b...@pagekite.net said: > As it's rather long, I won't paste the whole thing in here, but I do Please give me a few days to comment on this. I have some urgent tasks right now. But as a first hint: automation has never been second class citizen and has been build into

Re: Can't Encrypt in Freebsd 10.1

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:07, michard.anto...@gmail.com said: > #gpg -r 6349E5E0 -e test.txt > Abort You should run it under a gdb to see the reason for the abort. This should not happen. $ gdb gpg gdb> run -r 6349E5E0 -e test.txt [...] gdb> bt Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken s

Re: Can't Encrypt in Freebsd 10.1

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 12:34, michard.anto...@gmail.com said: > #2 0x000801918130 in __stack_chk_fail () from /lib/libc.so.7 > #3 0x000801179e43 in _gcry_cast5_amd64_cfb_dec () from I would try to build libgcrypt 1.6.3, which I just released, and check if that problem still exists. There

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:23, gnupg...@seichter.de said: > have some valid points; the latest articles are by no means mindless > rants or PGP-bashing. The thought of letting PGP die as an e-mail The article has two problems: - It compares an offline system (mail) with online systems (chat syst

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:37, marcozehe...@mailbox.org said: > And here’s the other problem the main article in c’t mentions: Those > keys, although faked, were certified. They were certified by equally > faked keys which resemble keys that are quite well-known. So unless Nope. According to the que

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:26, patr...@enigmail.net said: > that anyone can upload _every_ key to a keyserver is an issue. If > keyservers would do some sort of verification (e.g. confirmation of > the email addresses) then this would lead to much more reliable data. We have such a system. It is call

[Announce] GnuPG 1.4.19 released (with SCA fix)

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
our keys: 2048R/4F25E3B6 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA 5E0F 3AB5 249B 39D2 4F25 E3B6 Werner Koch (dist sig) rsa2048/E0856959 2014-10-29 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = 46CC 7308 65BB 5C78 EBAB ADCF 0437 6F3E E085 6959 David Shaw (Gnu

[Announce] Libgcrypt 1.6.3 released (with SCA fix)

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
Hello! The GNU project is pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt version 1.6.3. This is a security fix release to mitigate two new side channel attacks. Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks. It does not provide any implementation of OpenPGP or other

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:07, kristian.fiskerstr...@sumptuouscapital.com said: > Increasing the information on keyservers like this, in particular in > the descriptive parts can be considered, would it suffice to be part > of the standard web interface for keyserver intro, or would it have to > be ad

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-02-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:24, cales...@scientia.net said: > - Nothing is encrypted (so everyone eavesdropping will know that I just > downloaded the key for nsa-whistleblow...@wikileaks.org... and five Which he will anyway see as soon as you send the mail. Iff we have an anonymous network both pr

Re: A forgotten patch?

2015-02-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 03:02, a...@raxys.net said: > of GnuPG in 2009. According to him, the patch fixes lots of problems > that might be usable as in attack vectors on GnuPG. It seems however, as > if this patch was never included into upstream GnuPG. Because of that, This comes up every once in a

Re: Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

2015-03-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 15:32, rp...@kcore.de said: > is there a command line utility that takes a PGP/MIME encrypted message > (a plain RFC 2822 text file) and outputs an unencrypted copy? The Not really. MIME is a structured format and as such it may result in a bunch of encrypted, non-nencrypted,

Re: A forgotten patch?

2015-03-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 03:29, a...@raxys.net said: > I think the majority of people work for people they don't necessarily > like that much. I suppose it's related to the unfair distribution of > wealth in our world. Being funded by Facebook isn't the most reputable > thing either. Yeah right, or Go

Re: German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

2015-03-02 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 23:43, js-gnupg-us...@webkeks.org said: > I don't really agree with that. The goal is that the proof of work for a > single message takes 4 minutes. At that rate, sending spam really is not So you can send 360 mail a day. Assuming your 24/7 business make 700 Euro a day each m

Re: Circumvention Tech Summit in Valencia

2015-03-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 12:51, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Admittedly, "the GnuPG dev people" is really a one-element list > containing Werner. But there are certainly people active in the GnuPG The web page lists more and several more have write access to git.gnupg.org. I considered to affend but

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:29, h...@guardianproject.info said: > It is actually more difficult to wrap GPGME in Java than to have just > rewritten GPGME in Java. GPGME is a fine API for C/C++, it is a bad Sorry, but that is not your problem. The problem on Android seems to be that it is not easy to

gpgme and Java (was: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation)

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 00:57, h...@guardianproject.info said: > thread at this point. The bizarre Java wrapper of GPGME was not the > biggest part of the problem of the GnuPG-for-Android port, but it was > nonetheless a real problem. Sure it is possible to use GPGME with You mean Stefan's decade o

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 01:45, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > ever hacked on GnuPG has found situations where GPGME isn't a good > solution, sometimes for architectural reasons and sometimes for API > reasons and sometimes for language binding reasons and sometimes for > licensing reasons and... etc. I

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 00:50, h...@guardianproject.info said: > If you are interested, you should read the details. Because you are > missing some key details here. I believe they log all PGP encrypted > communication. That would be easy for them to do. I don't know about > HTTPS. I don't known

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 01:43, robe...@broadcom.com said: > I think Peter and the group already adequately answered this: If GPGME > is not providing an interface that meets Android requirements, then > look into how GPGME interfaces to GPG and emulate that interface. FWIW, EasyPG, the GnuPG interfac

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:29, h...@guardianproject.info said: > * Android will kill apps when it needs to, app lifecycle is automatically > managed, > the app has no control over it, and often zero warning is given That is the same as with Linux. Ever heard of the OOM killer? > * Android was not

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:50, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: >> I don't known for sure about encrypted mail but it is known that >> https connection information is recorded and stored for future >> attacks: > > Perhaps. Plausible, even, given storage requirements for connection > information. But stor

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:57, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > You're looking at FOSS projects that have successfully used GPGME, but Sure. > that doesn't tell you about proprietary projects that have chosen not to > use GPGME. I've had clients refuse to use GPGME because of the > licensing, even unde

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:10, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > > [JSON] > > [GPGME] That already exists: gpgme-tool. It creates output in XML but adding an option for JSON output should be straightforward. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz

Re: Thoughts on GnuPG and automation

2015-03-04 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:23, br...@minton.name said: > It breaks mailpile because gpg-agent is not session aware. A user could > be logged in locally, using mailpile, and a remote attacker could access > the web interface of that locally running mailpile instance, which since > it is talking to the

Re: where can one find an official gnupg project statement on the state of sub project?

2015-03-05 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:14, pa...@mlopes.net said: > It turns out that gnupg and gnupg2 are live and kicking, however the other 2 > projects seem to be dorment for long time without any updates. Right I have not looked at scrute and poldi for a long time. There seems to be not enough interest. H

Re: gpg in a cybercafé

2015-03-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:12, htd...@fritha.org said: > In case you're allowed to boot from an external medium, this still won't be > secure. Because you have no control over the hardware built into the computer, Does not even need to be hardware: A (remotely) modified firmware might first boot you

Re: Heise: De-Mail integrates End-2-End Encryption with PGP

2015-03-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 12:37, m.mansf...@mansfeld-elektronik.de said: > Anybody here from the GnuPG developers involved in that stuff? Not that I know. Keep in mind that De-mail system has a serious problem: As soon as you register an account you are legally forced to check that account timely. All

Re: GPG4Win 2.2.3 Smart card support

2015-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 08:14, deepak.sax...@safenet-inc.com said: > I am trying to test file encryption with SafeNet smart cards. (CardOs/ Java > and other tokens). > I am getting error message: The card application is not yet supported. You need to write an application which GnuPG knows about. Th

Re: AES-NI, symmetric key generation

2015-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:05, aheine...@intevation.de said: >> Also is there any >> option to turn hardware acceleration on or off at runtime? You can globally disable certain hardware features: Create a file --8<---cut here---start->8--- # We do not want to use

GnuPG News for February 2015

2015-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Find below the plain text version of https://gnupg.org/blog/20150310-gnupg-in-february.html Shalom-Salam, Werner 1 GnuPG News for February 2015 ══ Indeed, very exiting news this month: The financial crisis of The GnuPG Project is over. Due to an unex

Re: AES-NI, symmetric key generation

2015-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
ny d:\etc\gcrypt\hwf.deny I have not tested this. > a way to make gpg display which hardware features are being used when > encrypting/decrypting (to confirm that the deny file was correctly > placed and actually had an effect)? Thank you. From: Werner Koch Not yet. 2.1.3 will have a com

Re: AES-NI, symmetric key generation

2015-03-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:33, maricelgregorasc...@yahoo.com said: > I admit I haven't looked at the AES-NI instruction set, but I've read > that it could be easy for the CPU to reconstruct the key from a Possible. It is also easy to detect the instructions used for software based AES keyscheduling

Re: [cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

2015-03-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 07:18, xav...@maillard.im said: > I enabled ssh support in the gpg-agent.conf file as usual and I > clearly see the socket files for both GNUpg and SSH. The Unix Domain Socket emulation used by Cygwin is different from the emulation used by GnuPG on Windows. Recall that Cygwi

Re: bugs.gnupg.org TLS certificate

2015-03-11 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:12, br...@minton.name said: > git.gnupg.org) don't use that certificate. Have you considered a wildcard > certificate? I know this has been discussed before, e.g. at Too expensive ;-). To stop all these complaints I will add a so called real certificate but first I need

Re: AES-NI, symmetric key generation

2015-03-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:39, p...@heypete.com said: >> One more question: Is there any standardization in output formats >> between encryption programs and libraries, for example say you encrypt >> with AES128 in CBC, with the same key (directly or via passphrase), and >> since the output will have

Re: [cygwin] gpg-agent with ssh support ?

2015-03-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:23, dougb@dougbarton.email said: > PuTTY also has its own agent support, which works quite well. I'm not > sure why it's necessary to reinvent the wheel here. :) Because that integrates seemless with GnuPG. For example you can use your OpenPGP card (or other supoorted smar

Re: AES-NI, symmetric key generation

2015-03-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:08, p...@heypete.com said: > I (perhaps incorrectly) interpreted the question as "If GnuPG makes > backwards-incompatible changes in the future, would it be possible for > one who knows the encryption algorithm used, key, etc. of a message to > decrypt that message with othe

Re: bugs.gnupg.org TLS certificate

2015-03-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 00:21, h...@barrera.io said: > No need for a wildcard one. Just get one free certificate for each subdomain > from StartSSL. Definitely not. It far easier to pay 10 Euro a year for one from Gandi. But that is all not an issue, migrating Roundup to a newer version is more wor

Re: bugs.gnupg.org TLS certificate

2015-03-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:04, mw...@iupui.edu said: > A CA that charges nothing cannot afford to do much (any?) checking of > the assertions in my CSR. The resulting signature thus cannot have > some of the meaning that a more thoroughly investigated CSR can Given the implicit cross certification o

Re: Enigmail speed geeking

2015-03-15 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 16:32, st...@mailbox.org said: > Now, I'll look for information on how RNG in GnuPG exactly works. It *seems* > that haveged should impact on the gathering of entropy (available) at the > moment > of keypair generation on any GNU/Linux PC/laptop equipped with it (specific You

Re: Enigmail speed geeking

2015-03-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:38, st...@mailbox.org said: > Thanks, Werner. I read that, but I was particularly interested in how to get > GnuPG work with haveged. You should feed it into /dev/random or get into the kernel proper. This way all applications can benefit from it. > So, I guess it would n

Re: Defaults

2015-03-18 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 20:44, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Given that 2.1 introduces a lot of new capabilities (mostly with respect > to ECC), I think now, early on in the 2.1 series, would be a good time > to discuss changing the defaults for newly-generated certificates. Let's do a quick check of t

Re: SKS Keyserver, HKPS and GnuPG 2.1

2015-03-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:52, david.j.woo...@gmail.com said: > I debugged this issue a few days ago. I've posted a patch for testing and > hopefully incorporation into a future GnuPG 2.1 build at It is on my shortlist. Thanks, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgeset

Re: --verify --status-fd separator for multiple signatures?

2015-03-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:39, patrick-mailingli...@whonix.org said: > when using --verify combined with --status-fd [or --status-file], how > can one notice in scripts, that processing the one signature is done and > that further status-fd messages belong to the next message? That is unfortunately a

Re: Defaults

2015-03-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:19, mue...@cryptobitch.de said: > Is there anything in this listing that would allow me to quickly copy and > paste > (e.g. double click and middle click) in order to further work with the key, > e.g. edit or encrypt to? Sorry, I do not understand you. This is a command l

Re: --verify --status-fd separator for multiple signatures?

2015-03-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:41, patrick-mailingli...@whonix.org said: > Well, I don't speak C, so I can't make head or tail of "what we do in > gpgme/src/verify.c". You should still be able to follow the control flow. That is not different from any pseudo code. > Is there a complete list of all poss

Re: Clarification on advisories

2015-03-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 06:31, ventur...@gmail.com said: > In the 1.4.19 announcement, the entry: "Fixed bugs related to bogus > keyrings." is the fix for CVE-2015-1606? The Debian announcement describes this as The keyring parsing code did not properly reject certain packet types not belong

Re: Clarification on advisories

2015-03-23 Thread Werner Koch
commit 7e12ec4c7d6df29a7d7935399fccd2594ebb4a7e Author: Werner Koch Date: Thu Feb 12 18:52:07 2015 +0100 gpg: Fix a NULL-deref due to empty ring trust packets. * g10/parse-packet.c (parse_trust): Always allocate a packet. -- Reported-by: Hanno Böck Signed-off-by: Werner Koch (ba

Re: GnuPG 1.4.19 - Encryption Questions

2015-03-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 15:34, criv...@merkleinc.com said: > I am now trying to encrypt a file using the "homedir" option to point > to the copied keyrings but am getting this error message: You better run gpg --version to see which directory is the default homedir of GnuPG. You your files to t

Re: GnuPG 1.4.19 - Encryption Questions

2015-03-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:29, criv...@merkleinc.com said: > Question though - the gpg.conf file is optional? If I want one I must > create it? Yes, it is optional. If you have more than one key it is advisable to create one and add --8<---cut here---start-

Re: Enabling and using ECC keys (any reason not to?)

2015-03-26 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:59, m...@confidantmail.org said: > Is there any reason not to start using them? I have been reluctant to > bundle version 2.1, because once people start using ECC keys, using There is no deployed base of ECC capable OpenPGP implementation yet. Thus ECC is not enabled by def

Re: gpg 2.0.27 is updating the trustdb constantly, and taking minutes to do it

2015-03-28 Thread Werner Koch
Shalom-Salam, Werner --8<---cut here---start->8--- commit 936416690e6c889505d84fe96983a66983beae5e Author: Werner Koch Date: Thu Feb 26 09:38:58 2015 +0100 gpg: Remove left-over debug message. * g10/armor.c (check_input): Remove log_debug.

Re: gpg 2.0.27 is updating the trustdb constantly, and taking minutes to do it

2015-03-29 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:58, dougb@dougbarton.email said: > Just out of curiosity, do you have an ETA on a new release? Nothing really important has changed since mid February except for a fix in gpgtar - does anyone really use it on non-Windows? (it has been fixed in gpg4win). Salam-Shalom,

Re: What is 'CA fingerprint 1' on Smartcard

2015-04-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:50, mailingl...@krebs.uno said: > What is the CA fingerprint on FSFE-Smartcard? $ gpg -k 'C485 A6CD 7EC6 6E9E EC33 65F2 70F2 75E4 C32F 6CA5' pub dsa1024/70F275E4C32F6CA5 2005-04-10 [expired: 2009-12-31] uid [ expired] FSFE Fellowship (certification key) Bac

Re: Instructions for converting keyring for 2.1

2015-04-03 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 19:36, pe...@digitalbrains.com said: > new keybox format. I discovered I needed --import-options import-local-sigs on > the import command to also import my local signatures, which obviously is very Thanks. I just updated the web page. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Geda

Re: Global changing of expiration date of mainkey and subkeys possible?

2015-04-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:27, gnupgpac...@on.yourweb.de said: > is there any way to change the expiration date of mainkey AND ALL attached > subkeys by one action only (and not key-by-key)? No. Please file a feature requests at bugs.gnupg.org. if you think this is important. Shalom-Salam, Wer

Re: Email-only UIDs

2015-04-08 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 17:50, jose.casti...@gmail.com said: > share something that led me to this confusion initially. When I was > considering an email-only UID, I ran up against the issue that in > gnupg's default mode of operation, a name is required for a UID, $ gpg --dump-options | grep free

[Announce] GnuPG 2.1.3 released

2015-04-11 Thread Werner Koch
es we provide signature files for all tarballs and binary versions. The keys are also signed by the long term keys of their respective owners. Current releases are signed by one or more of these four keys: 2048R/4F25E3B6 2011-01-12 [expires: 2019-12-31] Key fingerprint = D869 2123 C406 5DEA

Re: Build script problem with gnupg 2.1.3

2015-04-12 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:24, m...@confidantmail.org said: > However, the libgpg-error-prefix doesn't actually work. You have to use: > --with-gpg-error-prefix= Actually both should work. But you are right, this is one of the most durable bugs in GnuPG and Company. The gpg-error.m4 macro is the re

Re: GnuPG 2.1.3 Fails to Compile OS X

2015-04-13 Thread Werner Koch
attsched. Salam-Shalom, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. >From 454f60399c7318fffd3de2afadd58c7a490178bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Werner Koch Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:57:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] common: Do without nested fucntions to support

Re: Unusable secret key (adduid)

2015-04-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 23:01, ivansun...@gmail.com said: > Hello! > > I'm using OpenPGP card to store my secret keys on it. Now I'm adding a > new UID to my key by running gpg2 --edit-key. What I've got is this You need to insert your card to create a new UID. > gpg: secret key parts are not availab

Windows installer for 2.1.3 (was: GnuPG 2.1.3 released)

2015-04-13 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, I just uploaded an _experimental_ Windows installer with GnuPG 2.1.3: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.1.3_20150413.exe (2539k) ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-2.1.3_20150413.exe.sig The exe has a SHA-1 checksum of d5630904b3d68eddc2730a00bfc67d52658cbe7e gnupg-

Re: wiki.gnupg.org theme?

2015-04-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:26, bernh...@intevation.de said: > on the OpenPGP Summit last weekend, people suggested to me > that we could make the wiki look better. I'd appreciate if it looks similar to gnupg.org. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgese

Re: GnuPG 2.1.3 Fails to Compile OS X

2015-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 21:35, b...@adversary.org said: > e...@quot.po:54: 'msgid' and 'msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' > e...@quot.po:58: 'msgid' and 'msgstr' entries do not both end with '\n' > but no need to paste them all in); obviously the cause is somewhere > in those sed or make rule

Re: GnuPG Summit news?

2015-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 16:50, h...@guardianproject.info said: > I was sorry to miss the GnuPG Summit. Now I'm eager to hear any news from it > :) Yeah, I should write a few lines about it. However, some interesting other bugs/features were mentioned and was districted by fixing/adding them. In t

Re: Yubikey NEO OpenPGP advisory

2015-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 18:06, andreas.schwier...@cardcontact.de said: > And contrary to the Yubico position that this is a minor issue, I would > call the circumvention of the PIN mechanism a major issue. If you loose > the device, then you loose the key. You mean anyone can use the key, right. How

Re: Yubikey NEO OpenPGP advisory

2015-04-22 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 20:27, andreas.schwier...@cardcontact.de said: > Not sure about that. If I loose my card on the street or someone picks > it from my pocket or my PC, than that is different from a malware attack Given the rare use of smartcards for non-banking I bet malware is more a problems.

Re: GnuPG 2.1.3 Fails to Compile OS X

2015-04-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 03:39, gni...@fsij.org said: > In the git repo, we have an entry of po/e...@quot.po in the .gitignore, > so, I think that it is not maintained in the repo. When a developer Right. It was removed in 2004! I expect that bug reports for a certain version a done using freshly u

Re: GnuPG 2.1.3 Fails to Compile OS X

2015-04-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 09:34, gni...@fsij.org said: > If this is correct, I think that following patch fixes the problem. I agree that this is could be the cause for the problem. > diff --git a/po/Makefile.in.in b/po/Makefile.in.in Changing that Makefile is not a good idea because it is a standard

Notes from the first OpenPGP Summit

2015-04-26 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! find below a text version of https://gnupg.org/blog/20150426-openpgp-summit.html 1 Notes from the first OpenPGP Summit ═ On April 18/19 a bunch of OpenPGP folks met in Dreieich near Frankfurt to get to know themselves better and exchange experience i

Re: Notes from the first OpenPGP Summit

2015-04-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 01:31, b...@pagekite.net said: > Thanks for the write-up, Werner! :-) Actually you have been much faster with your report https://www.mailpile.is/blog/2015-04-20_OpenPGP_Email_Summit.html >> disappointed that many of the participants favored this closed >> invitation-only

Re: Generating GnuPG S/MINE key pair

2015-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:07, dkbry...@gmail.com said: > gpgsm: no issuer found in certificate > gpgsm: basic certificate checks failed - not imported Your root certificate is not valid. An Issuer is required and that issuer must match the Subject. Also certain other fields are required for a root

Re: Notes from the first OpenPGP Summit

2015-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:02, n...@walfield.org said: > I've added a checkbox to pinentry that asks: "Cache password with GKR" > and it is only shown if GKR is present. So it's opt-in. Good. While you are at it: Please also add a checkbox to not hide the passphrase in the entry field. Being able

Re: Building libgpg-error for powerpc64-e5500-linux-gnu

2015-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:32, gborow...@advaoptical.com said: > Can I somehow convince it to recognise powerpc64-e5500-linux-gnu as > powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu? If both systems use the same ABI config.sub should have returned a canonicalized versions. If not we can use a new mechanism available i

Re: Building libgpg-error for powerpc64-e5500-linux-gnu

2015-04-28 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:55, gborow...@advaoptical.com said: > And is there an architecture-independent and ABI-independent way of building > libgpg-error? No. I know that this change in libgpg-error is annoying but I decided for it so to decouple libgpg-error's API from pthreads. By not using p

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