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From rabbi@quickie.net Sat Apr 1 00:35:30 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:35:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Johan Lundberg wrote:
[snip]
> Is this an RSA key, and if it is, how do i use the --load-extension and
> rsa-keys? Where can I get the extensions?
Yep, you're right, it is RSA. You should have the owner self-sign it, and
set --load-extension rsa and --load-extension idea in the config file. Get
the modules under contrib in the pub ftp server on ftp.gnupg.org... follow
compile instructions in the source.
> this is what i find in the handbook:
>
> load-extension object-file
> Description:
> Elaborate.
Yes, the manual is missing a lot. I had offered to complete it if I could
have the rights to reprint it as an appendix to my upcoming book, but it
looks like by doing so I will need to release my book under GPL. Which I
won't do...
- --Len.
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From rabbi@quickie.net Sat Apr 1 02:10:15 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:10:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: <20000401024505.C6480@bandon.nmrc.ucc.ie>
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > Yes, the manual is missing a lot. I had offered to complete it if I could
> > have the rights to reprint it as an appendix to my upcoming book, but it
> > looks like by doing so I will need to release my book under GPL. Which I
> > won't do...
>
> Licence wars aside, post your addendum here and we'll look at it.
Well, that's my point. I am either going to fill in the blanks in the GPH,
or write my own "guide to GnuPG" for the book, not both... so I would need
to be granted the rights to reprint part (I'm only interested in
reprinting the commands/options/usage half) of the GPH before I actually
spent the time working on it, since I am behind schedule as it is.
> I am not sure how the GPL would apply to books, but I'm quite certain
> that a way [ not involving lia^H^Hawyers ] can be found to accomodate
> your situation.
Hopefully. Lawyers are irrelevent, however. If Mike doesn't want me
reprinting what he's written, I am not going to do it.
- --Len.
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L. Sassaman
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pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie Sat Apr 1 01:45:05 2000
From: lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie (Lars Hecking)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 02:45:05 +0100
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:35:30PM -0800
References:
Message-ID: <20000401024505.C6480@bandon.nmrc.ucc.ie>
> Yes, the manual is missing a lot. I had offered to complete it if I could
> have the rights to reprint it as an appendix to my upcoming book, but it
> looks like by doing so I will need to release my book under GPL. Which I
> won't do...
Licence wars aside, post your addendum here and we'll look at it.
I am not sure how the GPL would apply to books, but I'm quite certain
that a way [ not involving lia^H^Hawyers ] can be found to accomodate
your situation.
--
A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out
of a divorce.
-- Don Quinn
From rguyom@mail.dotcom.fr Sat Apr 1 04:33:08 2000
From: rguyom@mail.dotcom.fr (=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9mi_Guyomarch?=)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:33:08 +0200
Subject: Collecting entropy?
In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000331140619.00aa3670@home.factcomm.co.jp>; from darren@factcomm.co.jp on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:06:19PM +0000
References: <3.0.6.32.20000331124148.00b7a340@home.factcomm.co.jp> <3.0.6.32.20000331140619.00aa3670@home.factcomm.co.jp>
Message-ID: <20000401063308.A19303@pingoo.ifn.fr>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:06:19PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> At 22:51 00/03/30 -0600, Marius Strom wrote:
> >BSD machine:
> >in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, set rand_irqs=" >used>"
> >
> >It defaults to keyboard controller, IIRC, which is not helpful on a
> >headless terminal.
> >
> >I use the IRQ of my disk controller, then run a find / creates wonderful
> >entropy. =]
>
> Thanks (and to L. Sassaman).
>
> Looking at that file I see:
> rand_irqs="NO" # Stir the entropy pool (like "5 11" or NO).
>
> Any suggestions what to do here (assuming the ISP is unwilling to change
> that file and reboot their server)? Is it reasonable to create the keys on
> my linux machine then upload them?
>
> Darren
hmm, just my Euro 0.02:
On FreeBSD you don't have to reboot your machine to change the IRQs used.
Just do, as root :
rndcontrol -s 15
rndcontrol -s 14
to add the IDE/ATAPI IRQs if they are used. Replace with your SCSI card IRQ
if you have SCSI instead. I don't know if it's really secure to add a network
card IRQ there.
On OpenBSD, you simply can't add or remove entropy sources. At least it
doesn't seems obvious to me while I was browsing man pages on
www.openbsd.org.
From homega@ciberia.es (Horacio) Sat Apr 1 10:38:14 2000
From: homega@ciberia.es (Horacio) (Horacio MG)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:38:14 +0200
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 06:10:15PM -0800
References: <20000401024505.C6480@bandon.nmrc.ucc.ie>
Message-ID: <20000401123814.A493@ciberia.es>
El vie, 31 de mar de 2000, a las 06:10:15 -0800, L. Sassaman dijo:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> >
> > > Yes, the manual is missing a lot. I had offered to complete it if I could
> > > have the rights to reprint it as an appendix to my upcoming book, but it
> > > looks like by doing so I will need to release my book under GPL. Which I
> > > won't do...
The manual is missing a lot just because it is being developed (written)
on a volunteer contribution basis. Give it time and it will become a
more complete handbook or reference book.
> > Licence wars aside, post your addendum here and we'll look at it.
Which is to say, make your contribution available.
> Well, that's my point. I am either going to fill in the blanks in the GPH,
> or write my own "guide to GnuPG" for the book, not both... so I would need
> to be granted the rights to reprint part (I'm only interested in
> reprinting the commands/options/usage half) of the GPH before I actually
> spent the time working on it, since I am behind schedule as it is.
I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of licencing do you have
in mind for the book?
Regards,
--
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From rabbi@quickie.net Sat Apr 1 09:53:51 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 01:53:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: <20000401123814.A493@ciberia.es>
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
> The manual is missing a lot just because it is being developed (written)
> on a volunteer contribution basis. Give it time and it will become a
> more complete handbook or reference book.
Right. And I offered to finish it.
> Which is to say, make your contribution available.
Surely. If I were to contribute, I would make the contribution available.
> I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of licencing do you have
> in mind for the book?
A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the GPL
fits in with the book publishing world...
- --Len.
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From gammapi@newsguy.com Sat Apr 1 10:01:34 2000
From: gammapi@newsguy.com (Gamma Pi)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 12:01:34 +0200
Subject: Windows port?
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I have seen that a MS Windows port available as executable. Is the source
also available? What is the build environment on MS Windows? Thanks.
From homega@ciberia.es (Horacio) Sat Apr 1 11:36:59 2000
From: homega@ciberia.es (Horacio) (Horacio MG)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:36:59 +0200
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 01:53:51AM -0800
References: <20000401123814.A493@ciberia.es>
Message-ID: <20000401133659.A738@ciberia.es>
El sáb, 01 de abr de 2000, a las 01:53:51 -0800, L. Sassaman dijo:
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
>
> > The manual is missing a lot just because it is being developed
> > (written) on a volunteer contribution basis. Give it time and it
> > will become a more complete handbook or reference book.
>
> Right. And I offered to finish it.
IMHO, even if GnuPG is an already stable system, there's still lots of
development in the make for having a `finished' book/guide done. Adding
more information will help for a more complete handbook, but may be a
bit too early to have a "definitive book". Just IMHO.
> Surely. If I were to contribute, I would make the contribution
> available.
Good, go ahead then and post to the GnuPG Doc List
then. The list I believe it was recently setup for this purpose and has
been pretty inactive so far.
> > I hope you don't mind me asking but, what kind of licencing do you
> > have in mind for the book?
>
> A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the
> GPL fits in with the book publishing world...
Agreed with the GPL part of it. I just wondered if you would make it
available in a similar fashion as the cvsbook (say both in print and
some online version of it).
--
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mailto:homega@ciberia.es
~Spain ~Spanje ~Spanien
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From rabbi@quickie.net Sat Apr 1 10:49:31 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 02:49:31 -0800 (PST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: <20000401133659.A738@ciberia.es>
Message-ID:
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
> IMHO, even if GnuPG is an already stable system, there's still lots of
> development in the make for having a `finished' book/guide done. Adding
> more information will help for a more complete handbook, but may be a
> bit too early to have a "definitive book". Just IMHO.
True. As Werner adds new features, new features would need to be
documented.
> > Surely. If I were to contribute, I would make the contribution
> > available.
>
> Good, go ahead then and post to the GnuPG Doc List
> then. The list I believe it was recently setup for this purpose and has
> been pretty inactive so far.
As I said, that's an "if." If I am unable to use the GPH as an apendix in
my book, I will instead concentrate on a GnuPG usage guide for
inclusion in the book.
> > A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the
> > GPL fits in with the book publishing world...
>
> Agreed with the GPL part of it. I just wondered if you would make it
> available in a similar fashion as the cvsbook (say both in print and
> some online version of it).
That's really up to my publisher. I have no plans to do so at this
time. Though you'll be able to buy it from Amazon. ;)
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Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
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From jashley@acm.org Sat Apr 1 11:57:46 2000
From: jashley@acm.org (J. Michael Ashley)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:57:46 -0500 (EST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > I am not sure how the GPL would apply to books, but I'm quite certain
> > that a way [ not involving lia^H^Hawyers ] can be found to accomodate
> > your situation.
>
> Hopefully. Lawyers are irrelevent, however. If Mike doesn't want me
> reprinting what he's written, I am not going to do it.
In this case, what I want is irrelevant, since it's the GPL (at least, my
interpretation of it) that is restricting Len's reuse of the GnuPG manual.
Mike
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From jashley@acm.org Sat Apr 1 12:01:15 2000
From: jashley@acm.org (J. Michael Ashley)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 07:01:15 -0500 (EST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
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On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Johan Lundberg wrote:
> I keep getting this kind of problems, hope someone can help me out:
>
> gpg: requesting key from finland.keyserver.net ...
> gpg: key : unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key something>: no valid user IDs
> gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg: w/o user IDs: 1
>
> Then I tried with the --allow-non-selfsigned-uid (I know thats not great,
> but I'm just testing this)
>
> but then i get:
>
> gpg: requesting key from finland.keyserver.net ...
> gpg: key : unsupported public key algorithm
> gpg: key : accepted non self-signed user ID '(some key )
> '
> gpg: key : public key imported
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
>
> and when I do
> echo testing|gpg -er 8F0E6845
>
> i get:
> gpg: 8F0E6845: skipped: unknown pubkey algorithm
> gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: unknown pubkey algorithm
>
> Is this an RSA key, and if it is, how do i use the --load-extension and
> rsa-keys? Where can I get the extensions?
The is described in detail, with step-by-step procedures to make it all
work, in the document "Replacing PGP 2.x with GnuPG", available from
http://www.gnupg.org/gph/index.html
Mike
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From wk@gnupg.org Sat Apr 1 12:55:38 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 14:55:38 +0200
Subject: Windows port?
In-Reply-To: ; from gammapi@newsguy.com on Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 12:01:34PM +0200
References:
Message-ID: <20000401145538.D32196@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Gamma Pi wrote:
> I have seen that a MS Windows port available as executable. Is the source
> also available? What is the build environment on MS Windows? Thanks.
Read the README.W32 file. A new version of the toolkit is available at the
address given in that file.
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D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com Sat Apr 1 13:59:31 2000
From: bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com (Brian Galbraith)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 14:59:31 +0100 (BST)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
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On 01-Apr-2000 L. Sassaman wrote:
> A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the
> GPL
> fits in with the book publishing world...
>
>
> - --Len.
>
I am inclined to agree....O'Reilly have recently published a Guide to
Debian Gnu/Linux, and they are considered to be the ultimate in GPL
practices (Debian that is) The distribution I believe is an integral part
of the Publication....so how did they marry the two?
I for one would be very interested in a hard copy manual, and hope you
succeed.
Brian
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From warner@lothar.com Mon Apr 3 07:57:48 2000
From: warner@lothar.com (Brian Warner)
Date: 3 Apr 2000 07:57:48 -0000
Subject: EGD-0.7 released (important security fix)
Message-ID: <20000403075748.19974.qmail@luther.lothar.com>
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Howdy all. I've just released version 0.7 ("the Brown Paper Bag" release) of
EGD. The Entropy Gathering Daemon is primarily intended as a source of
randomness for GnuPG, for use on systems which lack a /dev/random device.
version 0.6, which has been available for about 8 months, had a serious and
embarrasing bug in which the gathered random data (the output from 'vmstat'
and other programs) was not properly fed into the entropy pool. The resulting
data stream would have been hard to predict (it was still influenced by the
timing and quantity of program output), but had far far less entropy than it
claimed to provide. Many thanks to Brian Carrier for spotting the problem.
Other changes:
Fix handling of relative socket names. Thanks to Gerard Kok.
Added lsof to gatherer list. thanks to Jack Lloyd.
Added self-tests. 'make test' should be useful now.
Fix "should we build SHA?" tests, works much better now.
Send all debug, usage, and diagnostic output to STDERR instead. This
helps egd run in scripts with GPG better (doesn't interfere with
pipelines as much).
EGD is available from:
(signature)
For futher notes and updates, see .
Bug reports and patches are always welcome at warner@lothar.com .
Share and Enjoy, and my humblest apologies for that egregious bug..
-Brian
warner@lothar.com
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From vmas@servicom2000.es Mon Apr 3 10:40:32 2000
From: vmas@servicom2000.es (V+)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:40:32 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Q: compiling GNUPG for Win
Message-ID:
Hi,
I've done some changes in the source code of GNUPG for Windows and now I'm
trying to check if it works but I don't know how to compile the code.
Can anybody help me please?
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From wk@gnupg.org Mon Apr 3 11:02:05 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:02:05 +0200
Subject: Q: compiling GNUPG for Win
In-Reply-To: ; from vmas@servicom2000.es on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 12:40:32PM +0200
References:
Message-ID: <20000403130205.F16834@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, V+ wrote:
> I've done some changes in the source code of GNUPG for Windows and now I'm
> trying to check if it works but I don't know how to compile the code.
> Can anybody help me please?
RTFM: less doc/README.W32
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From matt.mozur@sourwood.net Mon Apr 3 12:42:54 2000
From: matt.mozur@sourwood.net (Matt Mozur)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 08:42:54 -0400
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
References:
Message-ID: <38E891CE.7B5574C2@sourwood.net>
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"L. Sassaman" wrote:
>
> A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the GPL
> fits in with the book publishing world...
>
GNU has released a new license for documents, called GFDL (GNU
Free
Documentation License)
you can get it at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
HTH
Matt
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From rabbi@quickie.net Mon Apr 3 12:49:31 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 05:49:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: unsuported key algorithm?
In-Reply-To: <38E891CE.7B5574C2@sourwood.net>
Message-ID:
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I think this has become far off the topic of GnuPG. Werner, feel free to
declare this topic dead if you so choose. :)
I'm wondering about section 7: Aggregation with independent works... does
this mean that, if the GPH were released under the GFDL, that it could be
reprinted as part of a whole, without the whole being released under the
provisions of the GFDL?
I think so...
- --Len.
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Matt Mozur wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGPENVELOPE PROCESSED MESSAGE-----
>
> "L. Sassaman" wrote:
> >
> > A standard copyright, as with all published books. I don't see how the GPL
> > fits in with the book publishing world...
> >
>
> GNU has released a new license for documents, called GFDL (GNU
> Free
> Documentation License)
>
> you can get it at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
>
> HTH
>
> Matt
> --
> My PGP public key ID: 0x727422b9 ( 1024-bit DSA )
>
> -----BEGIN PGPENVELOPE INFORMATION-----
>
> gpg: Signature made Mon Apr 3 04:40:44 2000 PDT using DSA key ID 727422B9
> gpg: requesting key 727422B9 from horowitz.surfnet.nl ...
> gpg: BAD signature from "Matt Mozur "
>
> -----END PGPENVELOPE INFORMATION-----
>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
iD8DBQE46JNiPYrxsgmsCmoRAnUrAJwI+ZWeJkYbn4+UajPPWKvjxKMN5QCg5syJ
qm2UZOxv8WAA1gWPU+GGtSE=
=DFco
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:45:49 -0700
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From bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com Mon Apr 3 19:40:33 2000
From: bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com (Brian Galbraith)
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:40:33 +0100 (BST)
Subject: GnuPG and Kmail
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I posted this several months ago...but never received any replies.
Has anyone managed to integrate GnuPG and Kmail...and if so how?
Regards
Brian
- ----------------------------------
E-Mail: Brian Galbraith
Date: 03-Apr-2000
Time: 20:36:10
Sign Only Key 0x6A6DFEFB
Default Key 0x63EBA765 (DH/DSA)
PGP Keys from http://www.freedomhound.com/pgp/en/
- ----------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Digital Signatures Verify Author and Unaltered Content
iD8DBQE46PKyEPpEmWPrp2URApNDAKC3u6Aj+ebN+ploySzvQfkz3le7TwCfRUVH
bZTCIsov8Ad0K95RZIIjuc0=
=7tQQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Mon Apr 3 21:00:53 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:00:53 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Extra dashes when crearsigning a file?
Message-ID: <200004032100.XAA10266@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Hello,
This quastion was posted in the Dutch newsgroup nl.comp.crypt and I didn't
know the answer so I'll ask it here:
When you clearsign a file which contains lines that start with a dash, an
extra dash is introduced, why is that?
vulcan:~> cat 1.txt
- <00000fba640b$00006af8$00005f2f@210.160.73.146>
- <00001e370ac4$000003ab$000063b5@vio.co.jp>
vulcan:~> gpg --clearsign 1.txt
[asking for passwd, etc.]
vulcan:~> cat 1.txt.asc
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
- - <00000fba640b$00006af8$00005f2f@210.160.73.146>
- - <00001e370ac4$000003ab$000063b5@vio.co.jp>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE46QYRIWmgtYYVa4URAnKgAJ9tBkyeNmGZaE9jBipQUJS1jbUh7gCeM5yU
fiesAhdnae18WIlpL4IKLAg=
=u1AI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From wk@gnupg.org Mon Apr 3 21:12:41 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:12:41 +0200
Subject: Extra dashes when crearsigning a file?
In-Reply-To: <200004032100.XAA10266@vulcan.xs4all.nl>; from johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:00:53PM +0200
References: <200004032100.XAA10266@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <20000403231241.A18729@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> When you clearsign a file which contains lines that start with a dash, an
> extra dash is introduced, why is that?
This is called dash-escaped text. It is used to quote the -----PGP....
lines and to make the job of the parser easier. It has always been
used by PGP.
Werner
--
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OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 465357
Birkenstr. 12 email info@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From nyuki@tiscalinet.it Tue Apr 4 07:06:05 2000
From: nyuki@tiscalinet.it (nyuki)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:06:05 +0200
Subject: Build for Windows with Visual C++?
Message-ID: <38e994833926f7d2@laguna.tiscalinet.it> (added by laguna.tiscalinet.it)
Did anyone try to build GPG for Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0? I am looking for ROM (rough order of magnitude) estimates of the amount of work that would be required. Of course if somebody has already done it, it would be nice to have it! A version running in a console without MFC would be sufficient.
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From nyuki@tiscalinet.it Tue Apr 4 07:07:00 2000
From: nyuki@tiscalinet.it (nyuki)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:07:00 +0200
Subject: Build for Windows with Visual C++?
Message-ID: <38e9943639286877@twingo.tiscalinet.it> (added by twingo.tiscalinet.it)
Did anyone try to build GPG for Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0? I am looking for ROM (rough order of magnitude) estimates of the amount of work that would be required. Of course if somebody has already done it, it would be nice to have it! A version running in a console without MFC would be sufficient.
--
TiscaliFreeNet, libero accesso ad Internet.
http://www.tiscalinet.it
From nyuki@tiscalinet.it Tue Apr 4 07:07:22 2000
From: nyuki@tiscalinet.it (nyuki)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 09:07:22 +0200
Subject: Build for Windows with Visual C++?
Message-ID: <38e994d93926fbb1@laguna.tiscalinet.it> (added by laguna.tiscalinet.it)
Did anyone try to build GPG for Windows using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0? I am looking for ROM (rough order of magnitude) estimates of the amount of work that would be required. Of course if somebody has already done it, it would be nice to have it! A version running in a console without MFC would be sufficient.
--
TiscaliFreeNet, libero accesso ad Internet.
http://www.tiscalinet.it
From twoaday@gmx.de Tue Apr 4 09:52:22 2000
From: twoaday@gmx.de (Timo Schulz)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 11:52:22 +0200
Subject: GnuPG Win32: secmem warning
Message-ID: <20000404115222.A1494@joesixpack.net>
Hi,
I have a problem that concern the win32 version of GnuPG (1.0.1a).
It is possible to disable the message that say the system
don't have secure memory ?
For example I try the --quiet and the --no-secmem-warning
option but gpg print out the message again.
Next I try to put the no-secmem-warning in the config
file in the gpg directory, without any success.
--
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From jsaylor@mediaone.net Wed Apr 5 00:57:00 2000
From: jsaylor@mediaone.net (John Saylor)
Date: 04 Apr 2000 20:57:00 -0400
Subject: GPGnet?
Message-ID:
Hi
I know that you can use PGPnet to connect to a VPN box using
IPsec. I'm not so sure you can do the same thing with gpg. Has anyone
tried this? Does anyone know if this kind of support is planned in the
future? Is it even on the radar?
Thanks loads.
--
\js
I wonder if I should put myself in ESCROW!!
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 5 05:42:43 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 22:42:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
No, you can't do this. I would doubt that it would happen in the future,
as I think Werner has stated in the past that he wishes to keep gpg a pure
implementation of RFC 2440 and leave unrelated tasks (such as file wiping
and VPN systems) to other programs specialized to do that.
Of course, I'm not Werner, so I have no idea what his plans are at
present.
- --Len.
On 4 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
> Hi
>
> I know that you can use PGPnet to connect to a VPN box using
> IPsec. I'm not so sure you can do the same thing with gpg. Has anyone
> tried this? Does anyone know if this kind of support is planned in the
> future? Is it even on the radar?
>
> Thanks loads.
>
> --
> \js
>
> I wonder if I should put myself in ESCROW!!
>
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
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uU5VdtKoBQAGp5sh4sM+sw==
=2Efb
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Wed Apr 5 07:23:11 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:23:11 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
John Saylor, at 20:57 -0400 on 4 Apr 2000, wrote:
> I know that you can use PGPnet to connect to a VPN box using
> IPsec. I'm not so sure you can do the same thing with gpg. Has anyone
> tried this? Does anyone know if this kind of support is planned in the
> future? Is it even on the radar?
Note that PGPnet has little to nothing to do with the OpenPGP protocol, or
even PGP in that matter. The name PGPnet, I'm guessing, is more
marketting than anything else to get you to associate the security that
comes with PGP together with PGPnet, even though they are weakly related.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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CQ8AniZtB8kDsWhws8bfVfS4wSLBgyS0
=BNbC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 5 07:53:10 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 00:53:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Note that PGPnet has little to nothing to do with the OpenPGP protocol, or
> even PGP in that matter. The name PGPnet, I'm guessing, is more
> marketting than anything else to get you to associate the security that
> comes with PGP together with PGPnet, even though they are weakly related.
Actually, they are very closely related. PGPnet is an IPsec implementation
that allows for the use of PGP authentication/encryption by both parties.
It is part of the PGP suite. (Remember that PGP is not just the OpenPGP
program; it is also PGPdisk, PGPnet, and the related plugins.) One
*should* associate the security that comes with PGP together with
PGPnet; PGPnet is only as secure as PGP itself.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
iD8DBQE46vDvPYrxsgmsCmoRAuhDAJ99k9U+WWjBhl5sPptQHCTo2M6tUwCdHv06
DsLl2i2YmfUDATWOUDVnQJw=
=iwFF
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From wk@gnupg.org Wed Apr 5 08:14:36 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:14:36 +0200
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To: ; from jsaylor@mediaone.net on Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 08:57:00PM -0400
References:
Message-ID: <20000405101436.K18423@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
> I know that you can use PGPnet to connect to a VPN box using
> IPsec. I'm not so sure you can do the same thing with gpg. Has anyone
IPsec has nothing in common with OpenPGP or S/MIME. If you are using
a Linux kernel you should checkout FreeS/WAN (www.freeswan.org) which
is a free implementation of IPSec for GNU/Linux.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 465357
Birkenstr. 12 email info@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Wed Apr 5 08:23:47 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 03:23:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
L. Sassaman, at 00:53 -0700 on Wed, 5 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Actually, they are very closely related. PGPnet is an IPsec implementation
> that allows for the use of PGP authentication/encryption by both parties.
> It is part of the PGP suite. (Remember that PGP is not just the OpenPGP
> program; it is also PGPdisk, PGPnet, and the related plugins.) One
> *should* associate the security that comes with PGP together with
> PGPnet; PGPnet is only as secure as PGP itself.
If you are calling PGP the entire suite of tools, there is no blanket
security that you can apply to the entire suite. You have to break the
issue down more; you can't abstract it that much. Saying PGPnet and the
unnamaed program that implements OpenPGP are equal is ridiculous; just
because they use similar algorithms has no effect on the possible
insecureness of the protocols involved. Given your style of argument, I
could abstract the Kerberos and ssh systems (public key logins, to
simplify) to say that the protocols are as secure as one another (given
that they are using similar algorithms).
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 5 08:48:21 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 01:48:21 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To: <20000405101436.K18423@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
>
> > I know that you can use PGPnet to connect to a VPN box using
> > IPsec. I'm not so sure you can do the same thing with gpg. Has anyone
>
> IPsec has nothing in common with OpenPGP or S/MIME. If you are using
> a Linux kernel you should checkout FreeS/WAN (www.freeswan.org) which
> is a free implementation of IPSec for GNU/Linux.
>
> Werner
That was my original point. (Though as PGPnet shows, IPsec implementations
can use OpenPGP keys as part of the session creation process.) GnuPG isn't
an IPsec program. It would probably be more reasonable to expect FreeS/Wan
to integrate PGP support.
BTW, has anyone here gotten FreeS/Wan to work? :)
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
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ADtzzR8aeW3BnEytNYhBdAw=
=CNzM
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 5 09:02:29 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:02:29 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Well, I didn't view this as an argument as such... I was simply countering
your statement that PGPnet is only weakly related to the PGP product
(which includes the OpenPGP file and email encryption mechanisms, PGPdisk,
PGPwipe, and PGPnet). Saying that is like saying Netscape Messenger is
only weakly related to Netscape Navigator, or Netscape Communicator.
Navigator and Messenger are both main components of Netscape Communicator.
Or it's like saying my foot is only weakly related to my hand. :)
True, PGPnet is an IPsec implementation and not an OpenPGP implementation,
but in the context of PGP they are related. Will Price has some Internet
drafts describing the relationship.
--Len.
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> L. Sassaman, at 00:53 -0700 on Wed, 5 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > Actually, they are very closely related. PGPnet is an IPsec implementation
> > that allows for the use of PGP authentication/encryption by both parties.
> > It is part of the PGP suite. (Remember that PGP is not just the OpenPGP
> > program; it is also PGPdisk, PGPnet, and the related plugins.) One
> > *should* associate the security that comes with PGP together with
> > PGPnet; PGPnet is only as secure as PGP itself.
>
> If you are calling PGP the entire suite of tools, there is no blanket
> security that you can apply to the entire suite. You have to break the
> issue down more; you can't abstract it that much. Saying PGPnet and the
> unnamaed program that implements OpenPGP are equal is ridiculous; just
> because they use similar algorithms has no effect on the possible
> insecureness of the protocols involved. Given your style of argument, I
> could abstract the Kerberos and ssh systems (public key logins, to
> simplify) to say that the protocols are as secure as one another (given
> that they are using similar algorithms).
>
> --
> Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
>
> "To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
> those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
>
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 5 23:20:00 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPGnet?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I dislike FreeS/Wan, but the OpenBSD IPSec program is great. PGPnet will
work with it (as well as with FreeS/Wan and Checkpoint and most other
IPsec programs.
Check out http://www.allard.nu/openbsd for instructions on OpenBSD/PGPnet.
- --Len.
On 5 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
> >>>>> "LS" == L Sassaman writes:
>
> LS> BTW, has anyone here gotten FreeS/Wan to work? :)
>
> I'm using OpenBSD's IPsec implementation, feeling that there are less
> holes to plug there [and it fits well with my general *BSD-ish
> orientation]. And I haven't gotten it to work, but I'm only just
> setting it up now.
>
> My original post was with regards to supporting remote M$ windows
> users [yeech!]- but I'm way off-topic now.
>
> --
> \js
>
> I want to kill everyone here with a cute colorful Hydrogen Bomb!!
>
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
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OJJDtiygLYzORiDDkMdFPjo=
=KPB4
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From jer@jorsm.com Thu Apr 6 20:20:24 2000
From: jer@jorsm.com (Jeremy Shaffner)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:20:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Key Generation
Message-ID:
[Please CC me as i'm not on on the list.]
Is it possible to generate a keypair when not at the console? It couldn't
collect enough entropy, and using the disks (updated the locate database,
doing a find / -print, etc) to finish off the last 20 bytes isn't doing
anything.
Normally I'd pound on the keyboard, but the machine is at a colo facility.
Thanks,
---
Jeremy Shaffner
System Administrator
JORSM Internet
jer@jorsm.com
http://www.jorsm.com/~jer/pgp.key
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Thu Apr 6 20:48:37 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:48:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Key Generation
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Jeremy Shaffner, at 15:20 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Is it possible to generate a keypair when not at the console? It couldn't
> collect enough entropy, and using the disks (updated the locate database,
> doing a find / -print, etc) to finish off the last 20 bytes isn't doing
> anything.
What operating system are you running? Different systems gather stuff for
/dev/random from different places.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From jer@jorsm.com Thu Apr 6 21:06:57 2000
From: jer@jorsm.com (Jeremy Shaffner)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:06:57 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Key Generation
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Sorry,
FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE.
(What a coincidence..I'm just getting started with
PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor.)
-Jeremy
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Jeremy Shaffner, at 15:20 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to generate a keypair when not at the console? It couldn't
> > collect enough entropy, and using the disks (updated the locate database,
> > doing a find / -print, etc) to finish off the last 20 bytes isn't doing
> > anything.
>
> What operating system are you running? Different systems gather stuff for
> /dev/random from different places.
>
> --
> Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
>
> "To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
> those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
>
>
>
---
Jeremy Shaffner
System Administrator
JORSM Internet
jer@jorsm.com
http://www.jorsm.com/~jer/pgp.key
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Thu Apr 6 21:13:19 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:13:19 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Key Generation
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Jeremy Shaffner, at 16:06 -0500 on Thu, 6 Apr 2000, wrote:
> FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE.
On FreeBSD, you need to pass in IRQ's to rndcontrol(8) to get it to gather
entropy from other sources than the keyboard. Boot-time settings to
rndcontrol(8) can be set in /etc/rc.conf; I have:
rand_irqs="1 10 12 14 15" # Stir the entropy pool (like "5 11")
This depends on your hardware, of course. I've got IDE devices, a PS/2
mouse, network and soundcard. I forget which IRQ is for which device; I
used xosview to find out which IRQ's are doing something.
> (What a coincidence..I'm just getting started with
> PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor.)
:)
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
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=axkE
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From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 7 06:04:49 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:04:49 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: with-colons info
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I've been going over the DETAILS file and the --with-colons information,
and I'm wondering about Field 2, which is used to indicate the calculated
trust/validity. The value 'u' can be given for a uid's validity, which
means it is 'ultimately' trusted; however, if I'm not mistaken, uid's are
not trusted; they have calculated validity. The use of the idea of
'ultimate trust' on a uid is confusing, I think; somehow we should be
conveying validty instead of trust.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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H50AoJWbg01LOdVXYHIbPFaLBMaEeGEY
=HHeh
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From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 7 06:22:03 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 01:22:03 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: successive calls to list-keys
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
If I make two successive calls to --list-keys and with-colons --list-keys,
can I be ensured that the keys presented will appear in the same
order, assuming the keyring is not altered by the user during this
time?
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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From bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com Fri Apr 7 09:25:58 2000
From: bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com (Brian Galbraith)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:25:58 +0100
Subject: Setting Primary UID
Message-ID: <00040710295900.13635@brian>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I have recently added some UIDs to my keys, but unfortunately have been
unable to Change the Primary UID used . I have read the manual, but have
been unable to find anything which works.
Is this facility available?
I would appreciate some pointers.
Regards
Brian
- --
- ------------------------------------------------
Brian Galbraith
Linux User 123411
Sign Only Key 0x6A6DFEFB
Default Key 0x63EBA765 (DH/DSA)
PGP Keys fromwww. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/
- ------------------------------------------------
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Digital Signatures Verify Author and Unaltered Content
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=kzI2
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 7 12:12:57 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:12:57 +0200
Subject: successive calls to list-keys
In-Reply-To: ; from ftobin@uiuc.edu on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:22:03AM -0500
References:
Message-ID: <20000407141257.H30286@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> If I make two successive calls to --list-keys and with-colons --list-keys,
> can I be ensured that the keys presented will appear in the same
> order, assuming the keyring is not altered by the user during this
> time?
Yes, with the current version of gpg and probably with future versions
too.
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email info@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 7 12:17:29 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:17:29 +0200
Subject: Setting Primary UID
In-Reply-To: <00040710295900.13635@brian>; from bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 10:25:58AM +0100
References: <00040710295900.13635@brian>
Message-ID: <20000407141729.I30286@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Brian Galbraith wrote:
> I have recently added some UIDs to my keys, but unfortunately have been
> unable to Change the Primary UID used . I have read the manual, but have
> been unable to find anything which works.
There is not clear way to say what's the primary user ID is. The most
logical one to me, is to say that latest one created is the primary
one. However there are problems with that: You way want to change
some attributes (like preferences or expiration time) and this way the
timestamp of the self-signature (which is the only way to tell you
when a UID has been created) changes, or you have a private and a
business user ID.
OpenPGP has a primary key flag, but ist is allowed to put it on more
than one user ID. Bottom line is that there is no clear semantic
defined in (at least) gpg.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email info@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 7 12:11:25 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 14:11:25 +0200
Subject: with-colons info
In-Reply-To: ; from ftobin@uiuc.edu on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 01:04:49AM -0500
References:
Message-ID: <20000407141125.G30286@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> trust/validity. The value 'u' can be given for a uid's validity, which
> means it is 'ultimately' trusted; however, if I'm not mistaken, uid's are
> not trusted; they have calculated validity. The use of the idea of
Key validity is calculated per user ID. Remember that you do not sign
a key but the key+userID.
> 'ultimate trust' on a uid is confusing, I think; somehow we should be
I agree that the usage of the terms is confusing. There is also the
idea to use the terms "the key is known" and the "key is not known"
instead of the complicated validity term.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email info@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From kyle@toehold.com Fri Apr 7 15:00:26 2000
From: kyle@toehold.com (Kyle Hasselbacher)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:00:26 -0500
Subject: Different size output on same input with Twofish?
Message-ID: <20000407100025.D5961@carefree.toehold.com>
--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have a large cpio file:
-rw------- 1 kyle root 510725120 Sep 26 1998 longshot-usr.cpio
I encrypted and signed it twice with the same options:
-rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179852840 Apr 6 21:09 longshot-usr-2.cpio=
.gpg
-rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179682409 Apr 7 04:05 longshot-usr-3.cpio=
.gpg
The options were:
-z 9 --cipher-algo TWOFISH -esr kyle
I also have these options in .gnupg/options:
load-extension ~/.gnupg/idea
load-extension ~/.gnupg/rsa
# Always encrypt for me.
encrypt-to 2A94C484
no-secmem-warning
keyserver pgp.ai.mit.edu
keyring pubring.gpg
keyring debian-keyring.gpg
I'm wondering whether it's normal to compress and encrypt the same
input and get such different output. I wouldn't expect to get byte-by-byte
the same output, but I also wouldn't expect a 150K size difference. I've
checked both files, and they seem to be the same once I unencrypt them.
Their signatures check out, and when I dump them to 'cpio -tv', I get the
same file list.
If this IS normal, I'm curious about why it happens, but mostly I
just want to know that there's nothing wrong with these files.
Please Cc: me any replies since I'm not subscribed to the list.
Thank you.
--=20
Kyle Hasselbacher All computers wait at the same speed.
kyle@toehold.com
--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
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Ff4AoNajPl2UFGcPFseS0JYa0YOg6sg5
=uL4U
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--CUfgB8w4ZwR/yMy5--
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 7 19:19:58 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:19:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Setting Primary UID
In-Reply-To: <20000407141729.I30286@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> OpenPGP has a primary key flag, but ist is allowed to put it on more
> than one user ID. Bottom line is that there is no clear semantic
> defined in (at least) gpg.
It seems to me that the most sensible way to do this would be to take the
key with the most recent primary key flag sub-signature bit set, and treat
that as primary. That solves all the problems associated with this.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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xP8An0ZfjdeqYAcf6cwbA+XfxYe7tkcc
=TxSm
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From holger@eit.uni-kl.de Fri Apr 7 19:56:52 2000
From: holger@eit.uni-kl.de (Holger Lamm)
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 21:56:52 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: Asking a keyserver
Message-ID:
Hi,
[holger@pulse mail]$ gpg --recv-key holger@flatline.de
gpg: holger@flatline.de: not a valid key ID
I just checked the code, GPG only accepts hex IDs. Is there a
special reason for that? The keyservers also accept questions for
UID parts. (I really need that!)
Please CC me,
Holger
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From Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com Fri Apr 7 21:55:46 2000
From: Alain.Culos@bigfoot.com (Alain CULOS)
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 22:55:46 +0100
Subject: Different size output on same input with Twofish?
References: <20000407100025.D5961@carefree.toehold.com>
Message-ID: <38EE5962.367C4D5A@eircom.net>
Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:
> I have a large cpio file:
> -rw------- 1 kyle root 510725120 Sep 26 1998 longshot-usr.cpio
> I encrypted and signed it twice with the same options:
> -rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179852840 Apr 6 21:09 longshot-usr-2.cpio.gpg
> -rw------- 1 kyle kyle 179682409 Apr 7 04:05 longshot-usr-3.cpio.gpg
Hi, I may open my mouth too early as I am not very knowledgeable in the area,
but isn't there a time stamp with every signature (meaning the time when it was
encrypted) ?
If so, that would :
1/ change the data
2/ hence change the encryption and compression you can get out of it (you're
using gzip -9)
Best regards,
Alain.
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sat Apr 8 08:51:10 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 10:51:10 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Different size output on same input with Twofish?
In-Reply-To: <20000407100025.D5961@carefree.toehold.com> from Kyle Hasselbacher at "Apr 7, 2000 10:00:26 am"
Message-ID: <200004080851.KAA02943@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
You, Kyle Hasselbacher, wrote:
> I'm wondering whether it's normal to compress and encrypt the same
> input and get such different output.
Yes, it is. The file is encrypted with the symmetric algorithm with a
session key that is generated by a pseudo-random generator. This session
key is also encrypted and stored with the message.
This does not always preserve file size. 150kb is much, but considering the
size of the files you're encrypting its relatively small.
If you just encrypt them conventionally the output should be always
identical.
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From c.hertel@usa.net Sat Apr 8 12:34:01 2000
From: c.hertel@usa.net (Christoph Hertel)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 14:34:01 +0200
Subject: default symmetric cipher?
Message-ID: <20000408143401.A1117@imp.yoghurt.net>
--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
As far as I understood, standard GnuPG can use 3DES, Blowfish and CAST5
for the symmetric encryption part of the hybrid encryption which is used
for e.g. my email.
I know I can choose the algorithm for the symmetric cipher with the
option "cipher-algo", but which algorithm is the default? Or does GnuPG
randomly choose which algorithm it uses?
Thanks in advance,
Christoph
--=20
get my PGP (GnuPG) key 0xBAC8E4D5 from a keyserver, by mailing me
(subject: get gpg key), or by visiting http://www.crosswinds.net/~hertel
--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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jNHRoMv6ukUF9UdRvIyZMhU=
=miyT
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn--
From rabbi@quickie.net Sun Apr 9 00:43:08 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:43:08 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: default symmetric cipher?
In-Reply-To: <20000408143401.A1117@imp.yoghurt.net>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Christoph Hertel wrote:
> As far as I understood, standard GnuPG can use 3DES, Blowfish and CAST5
> for the symmetric encryption part of the hybrid encryption which is used
> for e.g. my email.
It can also use Twofish (and IDEA with a module). Note that PGP does not
support blowfish, if compatability is a concern.
> I know I can choose the algorithm for the symmetric cipher with the
> option "cipher-algo", but which algorithm is the default? Or does GnuPG
> randomly choose which algorithm it uses?
I believe that Blowfish is default, but I am not sure. 3DES is the
required standard cipher for OpenPGP, and CAST5 is the default in PGP,
FWIW.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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nzMAnjBIEj6j7GHYT78FihIGSi7/Lhyi
=CV5P
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From drunkox@gmx.net Sun Apr 9 22:33:30 2000
From: drunkox@gmx.net (David Friedman)
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:33:30 -0400
Subject: Windows and Gnupg
Message-ID: <38F1053A.E0241041@gmx.net>
I run gpg under linux and I love it. I also have a Windows box that
I wanted to put gpg on. I did only to find a few problems. This
command(gpg -a --export David > c:\david.asc) makes a key file the gpg
can't recongnize while this command(gpg -a --export David -o
c:\david.asc) make an odd looking(at the bottom) keyfile that works. It
seems to use a linux-style LF line break insteal of CRLF.. Also their
appears to be a problem with the keyserver part of the code. Are there
any plans to bring the windows gpg beyond alpha stage? Maybe a gui. If
not I'm gonna try to work on a windows frontend under VB6.0 once I
better understand the Windows version. Thanks for all your help.
P.S.
when is 1.0.2 due?
--
David Friedman (drunkox@gmx.net)
Key: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/niftyinc/keys/david.asc
From visharam@mahindrabt.com Mon Apr 10 13:16:57 2000
From: visharam@mahindrabt.com (Vishram Kunte)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:46:57 +0530
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
Message-ID: <38F1D449.F8959A18@MahindraBT.com>
Hello,
I am thinking to install gnupg tool in one of my software. Therefore, I
wish to know more about Key Lengths provided for various symmetric
ciphers in this package.
Regards.
From manuel.carreres@servicom2000.es Mon Apr 10 14:10:31 2000
From: manuel.carreres@servicom2000.es (Manuel Carreres)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:10:31 +0200
Subject: GPG and Mingw32
Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000410161031.00955760@pop.servicom2000.es>
Hi all,
I'm trying to compile GNUPG1.0.1 for a Windows platform with the mingw32/cpd
kit (I have to modify the gpg code and compile the modified version for
Windows, so I need to know how to compile it).
The environment I've used is: binutils-2.9.1, gcc-2.95.2,
mingw32-cpd-0.2.4 and windows32api-0.1.2.
After the execution of
./configure --target=i386-mingw32
make
I got the next errors:
i386--mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../intl -g
-c signal.c
signal.c: In function `got_fatal_signal':
signal.c:56: storage size of `nact' isn't known
make[2]: *** [signal.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/a00aa119/windows/gnupg-1.0.1/g10'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/a00aa119/windows/gnupg-1.0.1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
and the file g10/gpg was not created so I cannot create gpg.exe
Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
Thanks a lot.
From lazarus@overdue.ompages.com Mon Apr 10 16:05:51 2000
From: lazarus@overdue.ompages.com (Lazarus Long)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 16:05:51 +0000
Subject: Setting Primary UID
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:19:58PM -0700
References: <20000407141729.I30286@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000410160551.A28266@overdue.dhis.net>
--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:19:58PM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:
> key with the most recent primary key flag sub-signature bit set, and treat
> that as primary. That solves all the problems associated with this.
Sorry to differ here. (the word "all")
I've had to create new UIDs in the past, due to temporary email
addresses and a variety of other situations. Many times I have desired
to *not*-change the primary UID or to change it to one that is not the
most-recently-created. In an ideal world, I would have the option of
specifying this.
Do I consider this a show-stopper problem with GnuPG? Not at all. :-)
But it definitely can be a frustration for the person wrestling with this.
--
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--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Now ready for primetime! http://www.gnupg.org
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BNnaRpkpseh3QiJbzI/DYnc=
=Yi9V
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--
From Paul Dalton"
Hi,
I want to use gpg to sign the data input to a form on a web site, and
then email it. The bit I'm having the prolems with is the signing. I can't
get gpg to a) use a default private key and b) sign the file. I'm putting
the data input into a text file, trying to get gpg to sign it ascii
armored, but it complains that it can't send the passphrase (im
using --batch). heres the command string I'm using:
$command="gpg --no-secmem-warning --default-key
USERID --clearsign --batch --h
omedir /root/.gnupg --armor --output /PATH/$output /PATH/$filename";
my cgi script is written in perl btw, the server is redhat linux 6.1
(running apache), and its an internal web site I'm using this on, no one has
access to this machine other than through http (port 80) (from the internal
network, no access from outside) so I think its relatively safe.
Can what I am trying to do be done? Have I got my args mixed up?
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks
Paul
From jesse@quasistatic.com Mon Apr 10 18:24:16 2000
From: jesse@quasistatic.com (jesse.oneill.oine)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:24:16 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Decrypting programmatically.
Message-ID:
GNUPG Users,
I'm working on a personal project that involves moving PGP encrypted files
back and forth between a couple of FTP servers. I am able to encrypted
the files in my application by just executing a sub-process that passes
all relevant commands via the command line. My problem is that I cannot
decrypt the files in my application because there seems to be no way of
passing the "pass phrase" via the command line. I know that other
versions of PGP have a "-z passphrase" option that will allow you to
decrypt a file without the interactive passphrase gathering. Is there a
way to do this with GNUPG? I'd really like to be able to use this
product, as it seems to work very good, but I have to be able to decrypt
the files from within my Java application. I don't want to have to buy
the PGP Business Edition, but that seems to be the only way to
accomplish what I need. Any ideas? This is currently a personal project,
but licensing is a concern if I have to use PGP instead of GNUPG.
Please CC jesse@quasistatic.com on any replys, as I'm not currently a
member of this mailing list.
Thank you for any insight.
Jesse O'Neill Oine
jesse@quasistatic.com
< q u a s i s t a t i c . c o m >
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Mon Apr 10 19:18:54 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:18:54 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Decrypting programmatically.
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
jesse.oneill.oine, at 13:24 -0500 on Mon, 10 Apr 2000, wrote:
> passing the "pass phrase" via the command line. I know that other
> versions of PGP have a "-z passphrase" option that will allow you to
> decrypt a file without the interactive passphrase gathering. Is there a
This is not allowed because on pretty much all unixes one can see everyone
else's command-line arguments; hence, the passphrase could be seen by any
other user on the system.
The general way of passing in a passphrase to GnuPG is to do so via a
handle specified in the passphrase-fd option; I don't know if you can
accomplish this with Java though. There are Perl modules that allow you
to accomplish this farily easily, though.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Mon Apr 10 19:21:37 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:21:37 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: gpg to sign cgi output?
In-Reply-To: <008f01bfa309$80f646c0$16c7e0c3@pncl.co.uk>
Message-ID:
Paul Dalton, at 17:26 +0100 on Mon, 10 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Can what I am trying to do be done? Have I got my args mixed up?
I recommend using one of the several Perl modules on CPAN that are
designed for GnuPG interaction.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com Mon Apr 10 19:28:13 2000
From: bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com (Brian Galbraith)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 20:28:13 +0100
Subject: Error message
Message-ID: <00041020325703.05320@brian>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Hi Folks
I am currently getting an error warning when I encrypt using a combination
of Geheimnis,and GnuPG 1.0.1d
The error received is 134514624. Can anyone explain what this means....as
the messages are signed and encrypted properly.
Regards
Brian
- --
- ------------------------------------------------
Brian Galbraith
Linux User 123411
Sign Only Key 0x6A6DFEFB
Default Key 0x63EBA765 (DH/DSA)
PGP Keys fromwww. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/
- ------------------------------------------------
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Digital Signatures Verify Author and Unaltered Content
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wCBKcl10OrMbRCfx7ri7mBo=
=qj5b
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From rabbi@quickie.net Mon Apr 10 19:51:50 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:51:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Setting Primary UID
In-Reply-To: <20000410155333.A27910@overdue.dhis.net>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 12:19:58PM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > key with the most recent primary key flag sub-signature bit set, and treat
> > that as primary. That solves all the problems associated with this.
>
> Sorry to differ here. (the word "all")
>
> I've had to create new UIDs in the past, due to temporary email
> addresses and a variety of other situations. Many times I have desired
> to *not*-change the primary UID or to change it to one that is not the
> most-recently-created. In an ideal world, I would have the option of
> specifying this.
Right. That's what the "Primary User ID" flag allows you to do. As I said,
it soles all the problems... you can add new user IDs, and unless you
specify then as primary, they won't change the primary UID specification.
> Do I consider this a show-stopper problem with GnuPG? Not at all. :-)
> But it definitely can be a frustration for the person wrestling with this.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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43oAoOJIXRntW/RlN51Mp80O6YUt3Unn
=9zLW
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From ttn@netcom.com Mon Apr 10 21:50:50 2000
From: ttn@netcom.com (thi)
Date: 10 Apr 2000 14:50:50 -0700
Subject: importing pgp-6.5.3 public keys possible?
Message-ID:
i read the gnu privacy handbook (nice work!), but could not find any
tips on this. the other document seems specific to pgp-2.x.
thi
From toshi.suzuki@ntt.com Tue Apr 11 04:16:04 2000
From: toshi.suzuki@ntt.com (Toshiaki Suzuki)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:16:04 +0900
Subject: Question about GNUPG in AIX environment
Message-ID: <200004110442.NAA18811@mail1.noc.ntt.com>
My name is Toshiaki Suzuki NTT Communications, Japan.
This is my first time to write to this Mailing-list.
I have a question about Instration of GNUPG to
AIX environment.
Could you give me information, if you have?
Now,we are developing E-mail encryption system
between Solaris machine and AIX machine. But now,
we can't install GNUPG to AIX environment.
The version of AIX is AIX 4.2.0 and hardware is
RS6000 J40.
Can GNUPG run on this environment?
Installation of GNUPG fails when installer uses
assembler because makefile can't recognize assembler.
Even if we write AS in makefile directly which installer use,
Installation of GNUPG fails.
I'm looking forward to your reply.
Best Regards.
From sen_ml@eccosys.com Tue Apr 11 05:00:43 2000
From: sen_ml@eccosys.com (sen_ml@eccosys.com)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:00:43 +0900
Subject: Question about GNUPG in AIX environment
In-Reply-To: <200004110442.NAA18811@mail1.noc.ntt.com>
References: <200004110442.NAA18811@mail1.noc.ntt.com>
Message-ID: <20000411140043I.1000@eccosys.com>
toshi.suzuki> Now,we are developing E-mail encryption system
toshi.suzuki> between Solaris machine and AIX machine. But now,
toshi.suzuki> we can't install GNUPG to AIX environment.
toshi.suzuki> The version of AIX is AIX 4.2.0 and hardware is
toshi.suzuki> RS6000 J40.
toshi.suzuki> Can GNUPG run on this environment?
there have been reports about using gnupg under aix in the past. my
current impression is that the version of gcc that one uses to compile
gnupg may make a different -- 2.7.3.x and 2.95 (and above) were
recommended. i also got the impression that using gnu make might
help.
look in the september archives for 1999:
http://lists.gnupg.org/gnupg-users-199909/threads.html
for a thread titled "Unable to compile on AIX 4.2.1".
if i understood the discussion correctly, one person did not have any
success compiling:
Darren Henderson
while there appear to be two people who did manage:
Werner Koch
Michael Roth
good luck.
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Tue Apr 11 08:55:13 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 03:55:13 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: request for input on name of GnuPG Perl module
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I'm currently in the process of almost releasing a totally reworked Perl
module to handle GnuPG; it's based off the same IPC-style ( communication
via handles ) as my PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor, but it is more powerful
and better designed (in particular it can fully parse --with-colons
information and can create useful "Key" objects).
Since the interface and powerfulness do much more than "message
processing", I've been tempted to call it PGP::GnuPG::Interface.
However, the bareword "PGP" is not that good of a choice, I feel, because
it is used to relate to NAI's product, which this module does not support.
OpenPGP::GnuPG::Interface might be okay, but there is the fact that my
module itself doesn't implement OpenPGP; GnuPG does that for me.
However, "OpenPGP" is a new top-level CPAN directory, so I'm hesitant to
use this, as I plan putting it on CPAN.
Simply GnuPG::Interface also is an option, but once again, GnuPG is a new
top-level CPAN name.
If anyone has comments on these possible names, or has good suggestions,
please let me know.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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7iYAnR0qJAJtUatscxz6ygS2aQS8Ca3h
=unT3
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From wk@gnupg.org Tue Apr 11 09:32:51 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:32:51 +0200
Subject: GPG and Mingw32
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000410161031.00955760@pop.servicom2000.es>; from manuel.carreres@servicom2000.es on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:10:31PM +0200
References: <3.0.5.32.20000410161031.00955760@pop.servicom2000.es>
Message-ID: <20000411113251.M31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Manuel Carreres wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm trying to compile GNUPG1.0.1 for a Windows platform with the mingw32/cpd
Get the latest development snapshot (IIRC, 1.0.1d)
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Tue Apr 11 09:31:12 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:31:12 +0200
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <38F1D449.F8959A18@MahindraBT.com>; from visharam@mahindrabt.com on Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 06:46:57PM +0530
References: <38F1D449.F8959A18@MahindraBT.com>
Message-ID: <20000411113112.L31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Vishram Kunte wrote:
> I am thinking to install gnupg tool in one of my software. Therefore, I
> wish to know more about Key Lengths provided for various symmetric
> ciphers in this package.
3DES: 168 Bit (but btter think of 112 bit)
CAST5: 128
Blowfish: 128
Twofish: 128 or 256
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From Jos Backus Tue Apr 11 09:25:35 2000
From: Jos Backus (Jos Backus)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:25:35 +0200
Subject: Question about GNUPG in AIX environment
In-Reply-To: <20000411140043I.1000@eccosys.com>; from sen_ml@eccosys.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 02:00:43PM +0900
References: <200004110442.NAA18811@mail1.noc.ntt.com> <20000411140043I.1000@eccosys.com>
Message-ID: <20000411112535.A84258@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
Be sure to also look at these threads:
http://lists.gnupg.org/gnupg-devel-199911/msg00032.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/gnupg-devel-199912/msg00007.html
--
Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never
_/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry."
_/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein
_/ _/ _/ _/
Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;
From sen_ml@eccosys.com Tue Apr 11 09:45:12 2000
From: sen_ml@eccosys.com (sen_ml@eccosys.com)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 18:45:12 +0900
Subject: option for specifying lanugage?
Message-ID: <20000411184512S.1000@eccosys.com>
is there a way to specify an option to gnupg to get it to choose which
language its messages are outputed as? something like the "lang"
option in pgp. note: i mean command line option -- not specifying the
contents of an environment variable.
the reason i ask is that, a user might want to view messages in one
language other than english (e.g. when using gnupg on the command
line), while software has been written to process gnupg messages in
english.
i bring this up because i saw mention of it on a mailing list for a
particular mail client today.
From wk@gnupg.org Tue Apr 11 12:08:14 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:08:14 +0200
Subject: option for specifying lanugage?
In-Reply-To: <20000411184512S.1000@eccosys.com>; from sen_ml@eccosys.com on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 06:45:12PM +0900
References: <20000411184512S.1000@eccosys.com>
Message-ID: <20000411140814.R31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> is there a way to specify an option to gnupg to get it to choose which
> language its messages are outputed as? something like the "lang"
> option in pgp. note: i mean command line option -- not specifying the
> contents of an environment variable.
What's wrong with:
$ LANG=it gpg foo
(assuming a Bourne/POSIX shell)
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From jgh@megsinet.net Tue Apr 11 13:43:57 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:43:57 -0500
Subject: heads up with list signing up
Message-ID: <1bad819b56.19b561bad8@core.com>
I have been unable to sign up for the list for 2 days now, sending 8+
emails, but now that I am at work and signing up via a web interface, I
am excepted right away by Majordomo.
In both instances I requested "subscribe" in the BODY
to "gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org"
I was using mutt as an emailing program before and have had no problems
sending or receiving mailings to GNUPG. Just a fluke maybe, but I
thought you should know.
---
/helfman
"At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has
always been in your possession."
Fingerprint: 2F76 2856 776A 3E07 9F3E 452A 17D9 9B28 D75E 0A36
GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org Get Private!
From wk@gnupg.org Tue Apr 11 14:25:04 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:25:04 +0200
Subject: heads up with list signing up
In-Reply-To: <1bad819b56.19b561bad8@core.com>; from jgh@megsinet.net on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 08:43:57AM -0500
References: <1bad819b56.19b561bad8@core.com>
Message-ID: <20000411162504.C31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:
> I have been unable to sign up for the list for 2 days now, sending 8+
> emails, but now that I am at work and signing up via a web interface, I
> am excepted right away by Majordomo.
There is no Majordomo running there.
> In both instances I requested "subscribe" in the BODY
> to "gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org"
Put it into the subject as explained at the website
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From joerg.noack@gmx.net Tue Apr 11 14:17:46 2000
From: joerg.noack@gmx.net (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Noack)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:17:46 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: gnupg and IRIX 6.5.6
Message-ID: <14542.955462666@www3.gmx.net>
Hallo,
I'm new user of gnupg. Under my linux box gnupg works fine and
without problems. Now my question. Is it possible to compile
and run gnupg successful under IRIX 6.5.6. I have compiled
the sources gnupg-1.0.1d with
# rm config.h config.cache g10defs.h
# CC=cc CFLAGS=-mips3 ./configure --prefix=/yatmp/freeware/gnupg \
--enable-static-rnd=none --disable-dev-random --disable-dynload \
--disable-asm
but during the key generation gnupg dies with a "Bus error" :-(.
-- output ----------
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
gpg: WARNING: using insecure random number generator!!
The random number generator is only a kludge to let
it run - it is in no way a strong RNG!
DON'T USE ANY DATA GENERATED BY THIS PROGRAM!!
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
Bus error
-- output -----------
Have anybody the same problem?
Joerg
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From jgh@megsinet.net Tue Apr 11 15:04:09 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:04:09 -0500
Subject: heads up with list signing up
Message-ID: <1dafe1e9d0.1e9d01dafe@core.com>
i did it in the subject and body, majordomo, whatever, either way it
didn't work for 8+ emailngs.....
---
/helfman
"At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has
always been in your possession."
Fingerprint: 2F76 2856 776A 3E07 9F3E 452A 17D9 9B28 D75E 0A36
GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org Get Private!
----- Original Message -----
From: Werner Koch
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:25 am
Subject: Re: heads up with list signing up
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jason Helfman wrote:
>
> > I have been unable to sign up for the list for 2 days now,
> sending 8+
> > emails, but now that I am at work and signing up via a web
> interface, I
> > am excepted right away by Majordomo.
>
> There is no Majordomo running there.
>
>
> > In both instances I requested "subscribe" in the BODY
> > to "gnupg-users-request@gnupg.org"
>
> Put it into the subject as explained at the website
>
>
> --
> Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
> OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
> Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
> D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
>
>
From BvdLeeden@LinuxFan.com Tue Apr 11 15:15:45 2000
From: BvdLeeden@LinuxFan.com (Ben v.d. Leeden)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:15:45 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: alternate webinterface
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Hello everybody,
if you visit http://www.bvdl.nl/gpg/ then you will see a little different
interface for the public key server. Any response is welcome...
Ben v/d Leeden
/---------------------------------------------------------------\
| Name : Ben van der Leeden | GCM/IT/MU d+ s+: a-- C+++ |
| ICQ : #53586252 | UL++++ P L+++ E--- W++ N++ |
| NickName : McBuster | e--- O- M-- V-- PS PE-- Y- |
| Url : http://www.BvdL.nl | PGP++ t++@ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b |
| E-Mail : BvdLeeden@Linuxfan.com | DI D++ G>++++ e+++ h r++ z? |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
| Email me with "request-key" as subject to obtain my key |
\---------------------------------------------------------------/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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=8nZH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From jgh@megsinet.net Tue Apr 11 15:57:21 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 10:57:21 -0500
Subject: heads up with list signing up
Message-ID: <225e71c1ed.1c1ed225e7@core.com>
no problem...case in point
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas Weinbrenner
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 10:39 am
Subject: Re: heads up with list signing up
>
> Thank you for this mail. I have tried for weeks to unsubscribe this
> list and finally using a web interface I succeeded. :-)
>
> --
> Thomas Weinbrenner>
From rabbi@quickie.net Tue Apr 11 18:42:11 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <20000411113112.L31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> Twofish: 128 or 256
What does GnuPG use? 256, right?
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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=0Giu
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From sen_ml@eccosys.com Wed Apr 12 00:04:06 2000
From: sen_ml@eccosys.com (sen_ml@eccosys.com)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:04:06 +0900
Subject: option for specifying lanugage?
In-Reply-To: <20000411140814.R31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
References: <20000411184512S.1000@eccosys.com>
<20000411140814.R31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000412090406J.1000@eccosys.com>
thanks for the response. my comments follow.
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> is there a way to specify an option to gnupg to get it to choose which
> language its messages are outputed as? something like the "lang"
> option in pgp. note: i mean command line option -- not specifying the
> contents of an environment variable.
wk> What's wrong with:
wk> $ LANG=it gpg foo
wk> (assuming a Bourne/POSIX shell)
either my message wasn't clear or i'm not understanding something (or
may be both ;-) )...
one of the paragraphs in my original message that you did not quote
mentions the fact that at least one program (i presume there are more)
has been written to process english gnupg messages. assuming that
there is more than one non-bourne/posix shell user in the world that
uses that program, isn't it problematic to use the approach you
suggest?
-having the program forcibly specify /bin/sh seems like a
waste of starting up an extra process
-forcing the user to set an environment variable every time they use gpg
doesn't make sense
-writing a custom script that sets the environment variable first also
requires an extra process
-having the program try to detect which shell the user uses seems silly
any other ideas?
i didn't come up w/ any so it seemed like having a command line option
to specify language was a good idea -- at least one to tell gpg to use
english messages so that the program that talks to gpg can specify
it (but if you go that far, why not allow the specification of
arbitrary language?).
From dstenn@fanfic.org Wed Apr 12 06:12:51 2000
From: dstenn@fanfic.org (Dennis Tenn)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 02:12:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
Message-ID:
I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
I have exhausted my possibilities on www.gnupg.org as well as other gnupg
pages. I've also emailed the FreeBSD gnupg ports maintainer and asked
this same question. The two accounts I have are dstenn@fanfic.org and
dtenn@uu.net. I really hope you can help.
I have successfully compiled and installed gnupg 1.0.1 but when I run
gpg --gen-key
and answer all the questions I get stuck. Here is the out put so far..
[/home/dtenn]
jpdata1:dtenn# gpg --gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/secring.gpg: keyring created
gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: keyring created
Please select what kind of key you want:
(1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
(2) DSA (sign only)
(4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
Your selection? 1
DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
About to generate a new ELG-E keypair.
minimum keysize is 768 bits
default keysize is 1024 bits
highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
Requested keysize is 1024 bits
Please specify how long the key should be valid.
0 = key does not expire
= key expires in n days
w = key expires in n weeks
m = key expires in n months
y = key expires in n years
Key is valid for? (0) 2y
Key expires at Fri Apr 12 14:32:28 2002 JST
Is this correct (y/n)? y
You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
id
from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
"Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) "
Real name: Dennis Tenn
Email address: dtenn@uu.net
Comment:
You selected this USER-ID:
"Dennis Tenn "
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
+++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.++++++++++>++++++++++.>..+++++....................................................+++++
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 18 more bytes)
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
++++++++++..++++++++++.++++++++++..+++++..++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.+++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++....++++++++++..>+++++...........................................................+++++^^^
Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dennis Tenn * There will always come a time
dstenn@fanfic.org * When your love will be tested
LICQ# 1457509 * Stand tall and rise to the occasion
* For only then will you grow strong.
* -Anonymous
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From pauld@pinnacle.net.uk Wed Apr 12 06:40:24 2000
From: pauld@pinnacle.net.uk (Paul Dalton)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:40:24 +0100
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
References:
Message-ID: <007101bfa44a$096348a0$8211bc3e@paul>
Hi Dennis,
I get this a lot myself. I'm running gnupg on an old sparc 2 running
redhat 6.1 . I'm using this machine for development so its not doing
anything other than my telnet session usually. I get around this problem by
working on the console and bashing away at the keyboard frantically until
the key is generated. I also keep the key length down to 1024, which is
annoying to say the least. It took be a while to figure out that typing on
the keyboard from a remote session doesn't do any good, is this perhaps what
you are doing?
HTH
Paul.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Tenn
To:
Cc: ;
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:12 AM
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
> I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
> I have exhausted my possibilities on www.gnupg.org as well as other gnupg
> pages. I've also emailed the FreeBSD gnupg ports maintainer and asked
> this same question. The two accounts I have are dstenn@fanfic.org and
> dtenn@uu.net. I really hope you can help.
>
> I have successfully compiled and installed gnupg 1.0.1 but when I run
>
> gpg --gen-key
>
> and answer all the questions I get stuck. Here is the out put so far..
>
> [/home/dtenn]
> jpdata1:dtenn# gpg --gen-key
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
>
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/secring.gpg: keyring created
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: keyring created
> Please select what kind of key you want:
> (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
> (2) DSA (sign only)
> (4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
> Your selection? 1
> DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
> About to generate a new ELG-E keypair.
> minimum keysize is 768 bits
> default keysize is 1024 bits
> highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
> Requested keysize is 1024 bits
> Please specify how long the key should be valid.
> 0 = key does not expire
> = key expires in n days
> w = key expires in n weeks
> m = key expires in n months
> y = key expires in n years
> Key is valid for? (0) 2y
> Key expires at Fri Apr 12 14:32:28 2002 JST
> Is this correct (y/n)? y
>
> You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
> id
> from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
> "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) "
>
> Real name: Dennis Tenn
> Email address: dtenn@uu.net
> Comment:
> You selected this USER-ID:
> "Dennis Tenn "
>
> Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
> You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
>
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
>
+++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.++++++++++>++++++++++.>..+
++++....................................................+++++
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 18 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
>
++++++++++..++++++++++.++++++++++..+++++..++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++
+++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++....++++++++++..>+++
++...........................................................+++++^^^
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Dennis Tenn * There will always come a time
> dstenn@fanfic.org * When your love will be tested
> LICQ# 1457509 * Stand tall and rise to the occasion
> * For only then will you grow strong.
> * -Anonymous
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
From darren@flyingcolor.com Wed Apr 12 15:37:58 2000
From: darren@flyingcolor.com (Darren Cook)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:37:58
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000412153758.00bb1190@pop.flyingcolor.com>
>I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
>...
>Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
>the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
I had the same problem; here are the answers I got from this mailing list:
>BSD machine:
>in /etc/defaults/rc.conf, set rand_irqs="used>"
And:
>On FreeBSD you don't have to reboot your machine to change the IRQs used.
>Just do, as root :
> rndcontrol -s 15
> rndcontrol -s 14
>to add the IDE/ATAPI IRQs if they are used. Replace with your SCSI card IRQ
>if you have SCSI instead. I don't know if it's really secure to add a network
>card IRQ there.
>
>On OpenBSD, you simply can't add or remove entropy sources. At least it
>doesn't seems obvious to me while I was browsing man pages on
>www.openbsd.org.
As it was a co-located machine, and I don't have root access, I cheated and
generated keys on another machine then uploaded them.
Darren
From bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com Wed Apr 12 07:49:44 2000
From: bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com (Brian Galbraith)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:49:44 +0100
Subject: Observations on GnuPG 1.0.1d
Message-ID: <00041209090001.09390@brian>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Hi Folks
I posted about part of this a short time ago and received no answer. I have
been investigating several combinations and permutations of mail programs
and guifront ends for GnuPG.
Until recently I have been using XFmail which gives good GnuPG support. I
am nowplaying around with a patched version of KMail, and I have also tried
the Geheimnis GUI.
I have found that on a regular basis I have to delete my keyrings and
reinstall from my backup.
1) XFMail is able to sign messages, but is unable to find public keys for
encryption.
2)Kmail signs OK, but encrypts to the recipient and does not encrypt to
self.
3)Geheimnis both encrypts and signs, but returns the following error
message:
Executing: gpg --no-batch --comment "Made with Geheimnis" -e -s -u 010FA449963EBA765 -a -t
- --no-default-keyring
- --secret-keyring /home/brian/.gnupg/secring.gpg
- --keyring /home/brian/.gnupg/pubring.gpg -r 0C81AFA55D3AD93BE -r
010FA449963EBA765 -o /home/brian/GnuPGWork/3.pgp /home/brian/GnuPGWork/3
gpg: NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION!
gpg: It is only intended for test purposes and should NOT be
gpg: used in a production environment or with production keys!
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Brian Galbraith "
1024-bit DSA key, ID 63EBA765, created 1999-11-01
gpg: 93D14EAC: skipped: public key not found
gpg: using secondary key 80312AC5 instead of primary key 63EBA765
gpg: using secondary key 6A4B0B72 instead of primary key D3AD93BE
------------------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: The encryption program returned error code 134514624.
Please close this window when you are done to return to Geheimnis.
When I check my processes using kpm........Ifind a list of GPG processes
which are given zombie status.
When I delete and reinstall my keyrings..all is as should be......until the
next time.
I am using SuSE Linux 6.3 with GnuPG
- --
- ------------------------------------------------
Brian Galbraith
Linux User 123411
Sign Only Key 0x6A6DFEFB
Default Key 0x63EBA765 (DH/DSA)
PGP Keys fromwww. http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/pgp/
- ------------------------------------------------
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1d (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Digital Signatures Verify Author and Unaltered Content
iD8DBQE49DLa1MQNj2pt/vsRAn9dAJ4j8THgBr/rn6ePXeuFLEHDLO1QegCfWRgc
WqxxTlqBZESdi9OC7iK1Fo8=
=dj/W
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From wk@gnupg.org Wed Apr 12 08:53:41 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:53:41 +0200
Subject: option for specifying lanugage?
In-Reply-To: <20000412090406J.1000@eccosys.com>; from sen_ml@eccosys.com on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:04:06AM +0900
References: <20000411184512S.1000@eccosys.com> <20000411140814.R31025@djebel.gnupg.de> <20000412090406J.1000@eccosys.com>
Message-ID: <20000412105341.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, sen_ml@eccosys.com wrote:
> wk> $ LANG=it gpg foo
>
> wk> (assuming a Bourne/POSIX shell)
>
> one of the paragraphs in my original message that you did not quote
> mentions the fact that at least one program (i presume there are more)
> has been written to process english gnupg messages. assuming that
No program should process GnuPG messages; programs should use the
output of --status-fd. If a program needs to process the messages it
should reset the locale variables. The test scripts for example do
this.
> -having the program forcibly specify /bin/sh seems like a
> waste of starting up an extra process
Giving environment variables for a program is part of the shell
syntax. No extra process.
> -forcing the user to set an environment variable every time they use gpg
> doesn't make sense
I can't see a reason to have just gpg emit English messages and other
programs use the locale message version.
> -having the program try to detect which shell the user uses seems silly
Every script uses /bin/sh - it's Posix. Adding just an option to
reset an environment variable is no good design IMHO. I know that you
will now say something about --homedir vs. GNUPGHOME :-(
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Wed Apr 12 08:56:17 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:56:17 +0200
Subject: Observations on GnuPG 1.0.1d
In-Reply-To: <00041209090001.09390@brian>; from bgalbraith@penguinpowered.com on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 08:49:44AM +0100
References: <00041209090001.09390@brian>
Message-ID: <20000412105617.D23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Brian Galbraith wrote:
> WARNING: The encryption program returned error code 134514624.
> Please close this window when you are done to return to Geheimnis.
Run Geheimnis using "strace -f -e process geheimniss" to see who
generates this starne return code - for me it looks like a Geheimniss
problem.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Wed Apr 12 09:09:17 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:09:17 +0200
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 11:42:11AM -0700
References: <20000411113112.L31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000412110917.G23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> What does GnuPG use? 256, right?
The OpenPGP WG agreed on 256 Bit. I don't like it but some folks
might think this is better for marketing. The probelm that I have
with it is that it requires more of those precious random bytes while
not giving any extra security - there are so much other parts which
actually limit the strength of the encryption (Rubber hose attacks,
Weak passphrase, 1024 DSA signatures to bind the key,...)
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Düsseldorf http://www.openit.de
From sen_ml@eccosys.com Wed Apr 12 09:23:50 2000
From: sen_ml@eccosys.com (sen_ml@eccosys.com)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:23:50 +0900
Subject: option for specifying lanugage?
In-Reply-To: <20000412105341.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
References: <20000411140814.R31025@djebel.gnupg.de>
<20000412090406J.1000@eccosys.com>
<20000412105341.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000412182350B.1000@eccosys.com>
thanks for your response -- i'll pass it on to the author of the program.
a few comments though...
wk> $ LANG=it gpg foo
wk> (assuming a Bourne/POSIX shell)
> one of the paragraphs in my original message that you did not quote
> mentions the fact that at least one program (i presume there are more)
> has been written to process english gnupg messages. assuming that
wk> No program should process GnuPG messages; programs should use the
wk> output of --status-fd. If a program needs to process the messages it
wk> should reset the locale variables. The test scripts for example do
wk> this.
ok -- i'll send this feedback on.
> -having the program forcibly specify /bin/sh seems like a
> waste of starting up an extra process
wk> Giving environment variables for a program is part of the shell
wk> syntax. No extra process.
i think we are talking about different things here -- or may be i am
just confused.
> -forcing the user to set an environment variable every time they use gpg
> doesn't make sense
wk> I can't see a reason to have just gpg emit English messages and other
wk> programs use the locale message version.
i am not sure what you mean here.
thanks for your feedback!
From minter@lunenburg.org Wed Apr 12 12:02:31 2000
From: minter@lunenburg.org (H. Wade Minter)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 08:02:31 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
I had that problem - banging on the keyboard didn't work for me, since I
was coming in over a telnet/SSH link. One thing I found was, before doing
the --gen-key, was to run "find / &" to get the disk churning. There was
plenty of entropy after that.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Dennis Tenn wrote:
> I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
> I have exhausted my possibilities on www.gnupg.org as well as other gnupg
> pages. I've also emailed the FreeBSD gnupg ports maintainer and asked
> this same question. The two accounts I have are dstenn@fanfic.org and
> dtenn@uu.net. I really hope you can help.
>
> I have successfully compiled and installed gnupg 1.0.1 but when I run
>
> gpg --gen-key
>
> and answer all the questions I get stuck. Here is the out put so far..
>
> [/home/dtenn]
> jpdata1:dtenn# gpg --gen-key
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.
>
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/secring.gpg: keyring created
> gpg: /home/dtenn/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: keyring created
> Please select what kind of key you want:
> (1) DSA and ElGamal (default)
> (2) DSA (sign only)
> (4) ElGamal (sign and encrypt)
> Your selection? 1
> DSA keypair will have 1024 bits.
> About to generate a new ELG-E keypair.
> minimum keysize is 768 bits
> default keysize is 1024 bits
> highest suggested keysize is 2048 bits
> Requested keysize is 1024 bits
> Please specify how long the key should be valid.
> 0 = key does not expire
> = key expires in n days
> w = key expires in n weeks
> m = key expires in n months
> y = key expires in n years
> Key is valid for? (0) 2y
> Key expires at Fri Apr 12 14:32:28 2002 JST
> Is this correct (y/n)? y
>
> You need a User-ID to identify your key; the software constructs the user
> id
> from Real Name, Comment and Email Address in this form:
> "Heinrich Heine (Der Dichter) "
>
> Real name: Dennis Tenn
> Email address: dtenn@uu.net
> Comment:
> You selected this USER-ID:
> "Dennis Tenn "
>
> Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
> You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.
>
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
> +++++.++++++++++.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.+++++++++++++++.++++++++++>++++++++++.>..+++++....................................................+++++
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 18 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
> ++++++++++..++++++++++.++++++++++..+++++..++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.+++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++....++++++++++..>+++++...........................................................+++++^^^
>
> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> Dennis Tenn * There will always come a time
> dstenn@fanfic.org * When your love will be tested
> LICQ# 1457509 * Stand tall and rise to the occasion
> * For only then will you grow strong.
> * -Anonymous
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>
>
From dstenn@fanfic.org Wed Apr 12 13:21:03 2000
From: dstenn@fanfic.org (Dennis Tenn)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:21:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Well.. To tell you the truth.. I ran a 'make buildworld' and concurrent
'find / &' and as an update to the problem.. It did finally complete but
it took many hours on my P266. This doesn't seem right to me.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, H. Wade Minter wrote:
|I had that problem - banging on the keyboard didn't work for me, since I
|was coming in over a telnet/SSH link. One thing I found was, before doing
|the --gen-key, was to run "find / &" to get the disk churning. There was
|plenty of entropy after that.
|
|On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Dennis Tenn wrote:
|
|> I have 2 systems and in both case I'm getting stuck generating key pairs.
|> I have exhausted my possibilities on www.gnupg.org as well as other gnupg
|> pages. I've also emailed the FreeBSD gnupg ports maintainer and asked
|> this same question. The two accounts I have are dstenn@fanfic.org and
|> dtenn@uu.net. I really hope you can help.
|>
|> I have successfully compiled and installed gnupg 1.0.1 but when I run
|>
|> gpg --gen-key
|>
|> and answer all the questions I get stuck. Here is the out put so far..
|>
|> [/home/dtenn]
|> jpdata1:dtenn# gpg --gen-key
|> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.1; Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
|> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 2 more bytes)
|> We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
|> some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
|> disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
|> generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
|> ++++++++++..++++++++++.++++++++++..+++++..++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.+++++.++++++++++++++++++++.++++++++++.++++++++++++++++++++....++++++++++..>+++++...........................................................+++++^^^
|>
|> Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to give
|> the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 128 more bytes)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dennis Tenn * There will always come a time
dstenn@fanfic.org * When your love will be tested
LICQ# 1457509 * Stand tall and rise to the occasion
* For only then will you grow strong.
* -Anonymous
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From Jos Backus Wed Apr 12 13:59:07 2000
From: Jos Backus (Jos Backus)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:59:07 +0200
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
In-Reply-To: ; from dstenn@fanfic.org on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:21:03AM -0400
References:
Message-ID: <20000412155907.D95883@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:21:03AM -0400, Dennis Tenn wrote:
> Well.. To tell you the truth.. I ran a 'make buildworld' and concurrent
> 'find / &' and as an update to the problem.. It did finally complete but
> it took many hours on my P266. This doesn't seem right to me.
Indeed. Did you configure any entropy sources using rndcontrol(8)? If not, try
doing
vmstat -i
and configure those IRQs which have a decent rate. Be sure _not_ to use those
associated with clk* and rtc*.
This is on a system here:
# vmstat -i
interrupt total rate
clk0 irq0 173824877 99
rtc0 irq8 222501722 128
pci irq10 26115597 15
pci irq11 17550519 10
pci irq5 115171 0
fdc0 irq6 1 0
Total 440107887 253
# rndcontrol
rndcontrol: interrupts in use: 10 11
#
Here, ``gpg --gen-key'' works fine.
Hth,
--
Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never
_/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry."
_/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein
_/ _/ _/ _/
Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer;
From dstenn@fanfic.org Wed Apr 12 19:50:39 2000
From: dstenn@fanfic.org (Dennis Tenn)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:50:39 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Problems with the gnupg 1.0.1 and FreeBSD 3.3
In-Reply-To: <20000412155907.D95883@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
Message-ID:
Thank you Jos.
This was it exactly. I checked vmstat and used irqs that would provide me
with activity. As expected, the gpg key generation process flew by and I
was left with a key pair in less than a minute. This should be included
in the FAQ IMHO.
Thank you to all. I'm happily exchanging encrypted email now.
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Jos Backus wrote:
|On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 09:21:03AM -0400, Dennis Tenn wrote:
|> Well.. To tell you the truth.. I ran a 'make buildworld' and concurrent
|> 'find / &' and as an update to the problem.. It did finally complete but
|> it took many hours on my P266. This doesn't seem right to me.
|
|Indeed. Did you configure any entropy sources using rndcontrol(8)? If not, try
|doing
|
| vmstat -i
|
|and configure those IRQs which have a decent rate. Be sure _not_ to use those
|associated with clk* and rtc*.
|
|This is on a system here:
|
|# vmstat -i
|interrupt total rate
|clk0 irq0 173824877 99
|rtc0 irq8 222501722 128
|pci irq10 26115597 15
|pci irq11 17550519 10
|pci irq5 115171 0
|fdc0 irq6 1 0
|Total 440107887 253
|# rndcontrol
|rndcontrol: interrupts in use: 10 11
|#
|
|Here, ``gpg --gen-key'' works fine.
|
|Hth,
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From pschoonveld@venux.net Wed Apr 12 20:54:50 2000
From: pschoonveld@venux.net (Patrick Schoonveld)
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:54:50 -0400
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
Message-ID: <38F4E29A.D777FF98@venux.net>
List members:
I am interested in utilizing GnuPG in an existing windows app that my
firm has developed. In particular, we would like to use it to generate
license keys for the product.
Here is the stickler:
There is no way my boss will let me GPL the product. Hence, I need to
fully understand the ways of the GPL before I use it.
So, let me ask you this: If I use GnuPG as a library to an existing
program (merely calling its functions as if it were a seperate
executable), would I be required to GPL my software.
If this is not the place to ask such questions, where would you
recommend?
Thanks,
Patrick
--
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From zerohazard@hotmail.com Thu Apr 13 14:08:15 2000
From: zerohazard@hotmail.com (Kathryn Verdoorn)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:08:15 GMT
Subject: Building Gnupg on SCO 7.1
Message-ID: <20000413140815.62079.qmail@hotmail.com>
I am currently in the situation of building the GNU compiler so that I may
build and install the Gnupg program. However, the build program for the GNU
compiler errors out while in the second stage. Id there anything different
I can do to get around this?
Please CC me in the response.
Thanks,
Kathryn
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From wk@gnupg.org Thu Apr 13 16:02:08 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:02:08 +0200
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: <38F4E29A.D777FF98@venux.net>; from pschoonveld@venux.net on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 04:54:50PM -0400
References: <38F4E29A.D777FF98@venux.net>
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Patrick Schoonveld wrote:
> I am interested in utilizing GnuPG in an existing windows app that my
> firm has developed. In particular, we would like to use it to generate
> license keys for the product.
^^^^^^^^^^^^
For what are these good?! Sorry, I won't support such mechanisms and
it is sad enough that you can use gpg to do this (if it is a different
process and you promise to deliver the source of gpg)
Werner
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From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Thu Apr 13 17:27:14 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:27:14 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <20000412110917.G23984@djebel.gnupg.de> from Werner Koch at "Apr 12, 2000 11:09:17 am"
Message-ID: <200004131727.TAA07087@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Werner Koch wrote:
> The OpenPGP WG agreed on 256 Bit. I don't like it but some folks
> might think this is better for marketing. The probelm that I have
> with it is that it requires more of those precious random bytes while
> not giving any extra security - there are so much other parts which
> actually limit the strength of the encryption (Rubber hose attacks,
> Weak passphrase, 1024 DSA signatures to bind the key,...)
Except from the rubber hose attacks it might be usefull for symmetric
encryption only. I store some files encrypted but only encrypted with
a symmetric key. I don't see the need for the asymmetric cypher for
personal archival purposes.
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johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From rabbi@quickie.net Thu Apr 13 19:44:43 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:44:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Jean Claude Wishard wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone can tell me if NAI 6.5.2 pgp is compatible with
> gnupg 1.0.0. I am trying to encrypt files with gnupg on a linux server and
> send them to a nt machine with NAI 6.5.2 pgp. It seems like there
> incompatible because the nt machine is having trouble decrypting the files.
> Anyone have any advice?
Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES is
the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, so
this is most likely your problem.
- --Len.
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From p99jlu@physto.se Thu Apr 13 20:32:46 2000
From: p99jlu@physto.se (Johan Lundberg)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:32:46 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES is
>the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
>cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, so
>this is most likely your problem.
So, why does GPG default to something that pgp cant handle?
/johan
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From lazarus@overdue.ompages.com Thu Apr 13 20:58:12 2000
From: lazarus@overdue.ompages.com (Lazarus Long)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:58:12 +0000
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from p99jlu@physto.se on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:32:46PM +0200
References:
Message-ID: <20000413205812.A6988@overdue.dhis.net>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:32:46PM +0200, Johan Lundberg wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>=20
> >Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES =
is
> >the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
> >cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, =
so
> >this is most likely your problem.
>=20
> So, why does GPG default to something that pgp cant handle?
So why does PGP default to something that GnuPG can't handle?
The point is to be compatible with the spec (the RFC) not with some
commercial software. If some commercial software, any commercial
software, happens to be compliant with the RFC, then interoperability
should be possible. That's one of the reasons for compliance with
standards.
However, I am now curious why the commercial (NAI) PGP doesn't support
open source Blowfish. But, being a commercial endeavor, I suppose I
should not care very much what they (NAI) do or do not support. As long
as GnuPG remains standards-compliant I should be happy. The fact that NAI
chose to make their product noncompliant with the standard (in another
manner) is deplorable (in my opinion.) They are certainly not something
to be emulated.
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From jsaylor@mediaone.net Thu Apr 13 21:29:05 2000
From: jsaylor@mediaone.net (John Saylor)
Date: 13 Apr 2000 17:29:05 -0400
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: Johan Lundberg's message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:32:46 +0200 (CEST)"
References:
Message-ID:
Hi
>>>>> "JL" == Johan Lundberg writes:
JL> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>> PGP does not implement Blowfish, so this is most likely
>> your problem.
JL> So, why does GPG default to something that pgp cant handle?
It's a long story. Blowfish is a fast and secure [so far]
algorithm. You'd have to ask NAI why they don't implement it.
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From jdoyle@ikena.com Thu Apr 13 22:00:15 2000
From: jdoyle@ikena.com (John Doyle)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:00:15 +0000
Subject: Hacking the public key functions
Message-ID: <38F6436F.B354A8EA@ikena.com>
Hi,
I am interested in using the public key functions of
the GNUPG. I notice that there is no example of how to do this
given in the ..doc/HACKING. Is there anyplace I could get an example
of using these funcitons.
Thanks,
J.c.D
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From rabbi@quickie.net Thu Apr 13 21:54:22 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:54:22 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000413205812.A6988@overdue.dhis.net>
Message-ID:
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Lazarus Long wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:32:46PM +0200, Johan Lundberg wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> >
> > >Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES is
> > >the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
> > >cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, so
> > >this is most likely your problem.
> >
> > So, why does GPG default to something that pgp cant handle?
>
> So why does PGP default to something that GnuPG can't handle?
>
> The point is to be compatible with the spec (the RFC) not with some
> commercial software. If some commercial software, any commercial
> software, happens to be compliant with the RFC, then interoperability
> should be possible. That's one of the reasons for compliance with
> standards.
I personally believe that defaulting to 3DES would make sense, for any
OpenPGP product. But that's just a personal opinion. And I think that
being compatable with the other OpenPGP implementations is imporant...
> However, I am now curious why the commercial (NAI) PGP doesn't support
> open source Blowfish. But, being a commercial endeavor, I suppose I
> should not care very much what they (NAI) do or do not support. As long
> as GnuPG remains standards-compliant I should be happy. The fact that NAI
> chose to make their product noncompliant with the standard (in another
> manner) is deplorable (in my opinion.) They are certainly not something
> to be emulated.
Okay, get your facts straight. Aside from the photo-id packet issue, which
would have/should have been in the RFC had it not been brought up rather
late in the cycle, PGP is compatable with RFC 2440. If someone knows of
any other issue of non-compliance, please let me know. PGP 5.x is not
compliant. Why? There was no standard to comply *with*. So I don't care
about 5.x violations. Show me 6.0 non-compliance issues, other than the
photo-id packet. Please. (And by the way, OpenPGP *is* an emulation of PGP
Inc.'s product. ;) )
As for the reasons for not implementing Blowfish, that's simple. It isn't
necessary. PGP implements all the MUST and SHOULD algorithms. Incidently,
GnuPG doesn't; implementing IDEA and RSA are SHOULDs. I understand
Werner's reasoning, and I am sure that RSA support will be present as soon
as the patent expires.
Adding Blowfish wouldn't give the user anything more than they already
have, in my opinion. CAST5, 3DES, IDEA, and Twofish are more than
suffient.
Note, also, that GnuPG does not use DSS by default. The jury is still out
on the effectiveness of RIPEMD160 in place of SHA-1 when used with DSA. It
could be just as secure, but "could be's" are not usually something you
want to mess with in cryptography.
- --Len.
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From rabbi@quickie.net Thu Apr 13 22:15:45 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> Note, also, that GnuPG does not use DSS by default. The jury is still out
> on the effectiveness of RIPEMD160 in place of SHA-1 when used with DSA. It
> could be just as secure, but "could be's" are not usually something you
> want to mess with in cryptography.
And I meant to continue and say that PGP doesn't recognise signatures made
with DSA that don't comply with DSS. Thus, you can use RIPEMD160 with RSA,
but if used with DSA (the default in GnuPG) it will result in a "BAD
SIG" warning if verified with PGP.
- --Len.
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From mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu Fri Apr 14 05:34:01 2000
From: mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu (Michael Jinks)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:34:01 -0500
Subject: Compiling on RH-6.2/SPARC
Message-ID: <20000414003401.B387@harper.uchicago.edu>
Hi-ho. Arch-newbie, here, but I couldn't find anything about this in the
docs or in the mailing list archives...
My system is a freshly-installed RedHat 6.2 on a Sun Ultra-5:
[mjinks@embley gnupg-1.0.1]$ uname -a
Linux embley 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:50:41 EST 2000 sparc64 unknown
[mjinks@embley mjinks]$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
[mjinks@embley mjinks]$ ld -v
GNU ld version 2.9.5 (with BFD 2.9.5.0.22)
I'm trying to install gpg version 1.0.1; worked fine just a few minutes ago
on my box at home (RH 6.1-intel), but here I have trouble. The compile dies
with this output:
Making all in tools
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/tools'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../include -I../intl -g -O2 -Wall -c mpicalc.c
gcc -g -O2 -Wall -o mpicalc mpicalc.o ../cipher/libcipher.a ../mpi/libmpi.a ../util/libutil.a -lz -ldl -lnsl -lgdbm -lnsl
../mpi/libmpi.a(mpih-div.o): In function `mpihelp_mod_1':
/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:86: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:123: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:185: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
../mpi/libmpi.a(mpih-div.o): In function `mpihelp_divrem':
/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:237: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:241: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
../mpi/libmpi.a(mpih-div.o):/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:289: more undefined references to `__udiv_qrnnd' follow
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [mpicalc] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/tools'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Now, I notice that the tail end of the ./configure script prints these
messages, which might maybe be relevant but I'm not sure of their significance:
creating config.h
linking ./mpi/sparc32/mpih-add1.S to mpi/mpih-add1.S
linking ./mpi/sparc32v8/mpih-mul1.S to mpi/mpih-mul1.S
linking ./mpi/sparc32v8/mpih-mul2.S to mpi/mpih-mul2.S
linking ./mpi/sparc32v8/mpih-mul3.S to mpi/mpih-mul3.S
linking ./mpi/sparc32/mpih-lshift.S to mpi/mpih-lshift.S
linking ./mpi/sparc32/mpih-rshift.S to mpi/mpih-rshift.S
linking ./mpi/generic/mpih-sub1.c to mpi/mpih-sub1.c
g10defs.h created
Went looking and I see that there is a ./mpi/supersparc/, but no sparc64, for
example; is this even relevant to my problem?
Is this a known issue? Anybody else run up against this?
TIA,
-m
--
Michael Jinks, IB
Systems Administrator, Chicago Center for Computational Psychology
finger mjinks@embley.spc.uchicago.edu for public key
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 07:59:59 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:59:59 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 12:44:43PM -0700
References:
Message-ID: <20000414095959.X23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES is
> the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
> cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, so
> this is most likely your problem.
IIRC, PGP 5.0beta something did implement Blowfish and created
preferences to it.
--
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OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 08:25:43 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:25:43 +0200
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <200004131727.TAA07087@vulcan.xs4all.nl>; from johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 07:27:14PM +0200
References: <20000412110917.G23984@djebel.gnupg.de> <200004131727.TAA07087@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <20000414102543.B23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> > The OpenPGP WG agreed on 256 Bit. I don't like it but some folks
> encryption only. I store some files encrypted but only encrypted with
> a symmetric key. I don't see the need for the asymmetric cypher for
> personal archival purposes.
Just curious how you achieve to create and remember a passphrase
yielding enough entropy for a 256 bit key, this seems impossible for
me without a hardware token.
Werner
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OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 08:46:13 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:46:13 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 02:54:22PM -0700
References: <20000413205812.A6988@overdue.dhis.net>
Message-ID: <20000414104613.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> about 5.x violations. Show me 6.0 non-compliance issues, other than the
> photo-id packet. Please. (And by the way, OpenPGP *is* an emulation of PGP
> Inc.'s product. ;) )
There used to be a signature subpacket with some X.509 data, the
subpacket number was not in the private/experimenatl range and not
specified by OpenPGP.
> Note, also, that GnuPG does not use DSS by default. The jury is still out
> on the effectiveness of RIPEMD160 in place of SHA-1 when used with DSA. It
Hmmm? just did a simple test without any special options (gpg -s hallo):
$ gpg --list-packets hallo.gpg
:compressed packet: algo=1
:onepass_sig packet: keyid 6C7EE1B8621CC013
version 3, sigclass 00, digest 2, pubkey 17, last=1
:literal data packet:
mode b, created 955701015, name="hallo",
raw data: 6 bytes
:signature packet: algo 17, keyid 6C7EE1B8621CC013
version 3, created 955701015, md5len 5, sigclass 00
digest algo 2, begin of digest bf b4
data: [158 bits]
data: [160 bits]
digest algo 2 is SHA-1, so it looks very much like DSS; I have to
confess that the GnuPG does not use the recommended prosecure for key
generation.
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 08:43:15 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:43:15 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414095959.X23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > Be sure you are using a cipher that both products can understand. 3DES is
> > the most logical, since it is required by RFC 2440. CAST is the default
> > cipher in PGP, and Blowfish in GnuPG. PGP does not implement Blowfish, so
> > this is most likely your problem.
>
> IIRC, PGP 5.0beta something did implement Blowfish and created
> preferences to it.
Hrmm. Possibly. But I don't believe that any release version of PGP ever
implemented it, and I know that 6.x and up doesn't, because it is't in the
SDK.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 08:44:20 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:44:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <20000414102543.B23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> Just curious how you achieve to create and remember a passphrase
> yielding enough entropy for a 256 bit key, this seems impossible for
> me without a hardware token.
Ah, but it's such a warm, fuzzy feeling know think that one has a 256 bit
key!
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 09:06:37 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:06:37 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from jsaylor@mediaone.net on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 05:29:05PM -0400
References:
Message-ID: <20000414110637.D23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
> It's a long story. Blowfish is a fast and secure [so far]
> algorithm. You'd have to ask NAI why they don't implement it.
For encryption it is relly simple: If you encrypt for a key, an
OpenPGP implemenation does an intersection between the list of
algorithm it implements and the ones foun in the key of the recipient.
This intersection will never be empty becuase 3DES is implicty
available.
So, if you created a key with a preference including Blowfish, any
OpenPGP implemenation may decide to use Blowfish for encryption.
Yes, I know, there should be a more easy way to change preferences,
without editing gpg source.
Preferences don't work with signatures of course.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 09:08:30 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:08:30 +0200
Subject: Hacking the public key functions
In-Reply-To: <38F6436F.B354A8EA@ikena.com>; from jdoyle@ikena.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:00:15PM +0000
References: <38F6436F.B354A8EA@ikena.com>
Message-ID: <20000414110830.E23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Doyle wrote:
> I am interested in using the public key functions of
> the GNUPG. I notice that there is no example of how to do this
> given in the ..doc/HACKING. Is there anyplace I could get an example
> of using these funcitons.
Yes, get the head brach of gpg out of CVS and use libgcrypt. IIRC,
there is some documentation. Get gsti or gnutls to see usage
examples.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 09:13:31 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:13:31 +0200
Subject: Compiling on RH-6.2/SPARC
In-Reply-To: <20000414003401.B387@harper.uchicago.edu>; from mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 12:34:01AM -0500
References: <20000414003401.B387@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <20000414111331.F23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Linux embley 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:50:41 EST 2000 sparc64 unknown
> /home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:86: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
I have no more access to an UltraSparc, but there might be some fixes
in 1.0.1d. It used to run on the very first sold UltraPenguin box
here in Germany, quite a while back.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 09:17:20 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:17:20 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414104613.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > about 5.x violations. Show me 6.0 non-compliance issues, other than the
> > photo-id packet. Please. (And by the way, OpenPGP *is* an emulation of PGP
> > Inc.'s product. ;) )
>
> There used to be a signature subpacket with some X.509 data, the
> subpacket number was not in the private/experimenatl range and not
> specified by OpenPGP.
>
> > Note, also, that GnuPG does not use DSS by default. The jury is still out
> > on the effectiveness of RIPEMD160 in place of SHA-1 when used with DSA. It
>
> Hmmm? just did a simple test without any special options (gpg -s hallo):
[snip example]
> digest algo 2 is SHA-1, so it looks very much like DSS; I have to
> confess that the GnuPG does not use the recommended prosecure for key
> generation.
Okay, I stand corrected. I must confess, I didn't test it... I just
assumed from the man page that RIPEMD160 was the default:
--s2k-digest-algo name
Use name as the digest algorithm used to mangle
the passphrases. The default algorithm is RIPE-
MD-160. This digest algorithm is also used for
conventional encryption if --digest-algo is not
given.
... but then of course when I went back and checked it again, I realized I
had thought I was looking at "--digest-algo".
Oops.
But the point is still valid to those who wish to tweak their settings for
no reason: using RIPEMD160 instead of SHA-1 with DSA keys makes them not
DSS. It is my recommendation that people use SHA-1 with DSA keys unless at
some point they are given good reason not to trust SHA-1.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 09:32:54 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:32:54 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:17:20AM -0700
References: <20000414104613.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000414113254.G23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> But the point is still valid to those who wish to tweak their settings for
> no reason: using RIPEMD160 instead of SHA-1 with DSA keys makes them not
> DSS. It is my recommendation that people use SHA-1 with DSA keys unless at
> some point they are given good reason not to trust SHA-1.
Most banks here in Germany prefer RIPEMD160 over SHA1; I don't know
why ;-)
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 09:23:16 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:23:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414110637.D23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, John Saylor wrote:
>
> > It's a long story. Blowfish is a fast and secure [so far]
> > algorithm. You'd have to ask NAI why they don't implement it.
>
> For encryption it is relly simple: If you encrypt for a key, an
> OpenPGP implemenation does an intersection between the list of
> algorithm it implements and the ones foun in the key of the recipient.
> This intersection will never be empty becuase 3DES is implicty
> available.
>
> So, if you created a key with a preference including Blowfish, any
> OpenPGP implemenation may decide to use Blowfish for encryption.
Remember, though, that creating a key with the preferences of one OpenPGP
implementation may cause you some trouble if you then use that key with an
OpenPGP implementation that doesn't support some of those ciphers you had
specified as accepted in the key.
And example: Key is generated with GnuPG. Blowfish is preferred. Key is
then moved to system using PGP. Public key is given to someone using
GnuPG. Message is sent, using Blowfish (on account of the prefs). The
recipient cannot view the message, because PGP doesn't have Blowfish.
This seems to be a FAQ on this and the PGP-Users lists.
As it doesn't look like Blowfish is going to be implemented in PGP, I'd
like to see GnuPG give the option to exclude it from the preferences when
keys are generated in GnuPG.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 09:49:46 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:49:46 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:23:16AM -0700
References: <20000414110637.D23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000414114946.H23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> As it doesn't look like Blowfish is going to be implemented in PGP, I'd
> like to see GnuPG give the option to exclude it from the preferences when
> keys are generated in GnuPG.
No.
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 09:46:01 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:46:01 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414104613.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > about 5.x violations. Show me 6.0 non-compliance issues, other than the
> > photo-id packet. Please. (And by the way, OpenPGP *is* an emulation of PGP
> > Inc.'s product. ;) )
>
> There used to be a signature subpacket with some X.509 data, the
> subpacket number was not in the private/experimenatl range and not
> specified by OpenPGP.
This is an X.509 certificate:
:signature packet: algo 100, keyid 0000000000000000
version 4, created 952495317, md5len 0, sigclass 10
digest algo 2, begin of digest 00 00
hashed subpkt 2 len 5 (sig created 2000-03-08)
hashed subpkt 3 len 5 (sig expires after 10y0d0h0m)
hashed subpkt 100 len 995 (?)
unknown algorithm 100
I don't know about previous versions, but in 6.5.3 it is subpacket number
100 (internal or user defined).
I personally think it would be nice for X.509 certificates to get a
dedicated packet number, but in any case the current method is in
compliance with OpenPGP.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 09:56:42 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:56:42 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414113254.G23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> Most banks here in Germany prefer RIPEMD160 over SHA1; I don't know
> why ;-)
Ah, politics. I love the fact that practically all of the AES candidates
have non-US cryptographers working on them... :)
Regardless of who developed SHA-1, it is the opinion of numerous
well-respected cryptographers both in the USA and abroad that it is sound,
and that DSS is correct in requiring it.
An aside: those mysterious S-Box values in DES turned out to be not a back
door placed by No Such Agency, but instead a clever construction to defend
against differential cryptanalysis. When the NSA does things, they
generally do them well... DES is cryptographically sound; 56 bit is just
too damn small now.
SHA-1 is far less controversial than the DES S-Boxes. RIPEMD160 could be
just as good, but I trust SHA-1 with DSS more simply based on the
collective opinion of the industry experts.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 10:18:32 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:18:32 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:46:01AM -0700
References: <20000414104613.C23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000414121832.I23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> I don't know about previous versions, but in 6.5.3 it is subpacket number
> 100 (internal or user defined).
Sorry, I was wrong here. See my message from 21 Feb 2000 22:31:47 in
gnupg-devel.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From su99-jlu@nada.kth.se Fri Apr 14 10:28:36 2000
From: su99-jlu@nada.kth.se (Johan Lundberg)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:28:36 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000413205812.A6988@overdue.dhis.net>
Message-ID:
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Lazarus Long wrote:
>However, I am now curious why the commercial (NAI) PGP doesn't support
>open source Blowfish. But, being a commercial endeavor, I suppose I
>should not care very much what they (NAI) do or do not support. As long
>as GnuPG remains standards-compliant I should be happy. The fact that NAI
>chose to make their product noncompliant with the standard (in another
>manner) is deplorable (in my opinion.) They are certainly not something
>to be emulated.
Ohh.. I thougth that one nice thing with gnupg whas that you should be
able to encrypt to and from pgp, gpg and other users without to mush
problems. It's a fact that pgp is mush more used than gpg, so i think pgp
should be fully compatible with pgp by default (as long as it's not a
violation to openPGP). If gpg are to replace pgp (as I understand you wold
like?), it would be nice to be as compatible as possible.
/johan
___________________________________________
Johan Lundberg HTTP://johan.hello.to
Vibblabyv. 28 PGP: 0xD3A0A0E5
17764 Jarfalla B847 687B 8971 0AAC 1C29
+46(0)8-580 17259 DBA1 AB5F 664F D3A0 A0E5
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 15:34:09 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:34:09 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Johan Lundberg, at 12:28 +0200 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Ohh.. I thougth that one nice thing with gnupg whas that you should be
> able to encrypt to and from pgp, gpg and other users without to mush
> problems. It's a fact that pgp is mush more used than gpg, so i think pgp
> should be fully compatible with pgp by default (as long as it's not a
> violation to openPGP). If gpg are to replace pgp (as I understand you wold
> like?), it would be nice to be as compatible as possible.
No, the nice thing about GnuPG is that it conforms to an
internet-recognized specification for exchanging OpenPGP messages. This
standard is available for anyone to view and create a new implementation
of. If these standards did not exist we wouldn't have working protocols
like TCP or HTTP.
Three are currently two major things which break compatibility:
encumbering patents, and PGP.
RSA and IDEA are not supported by default in GnuPG because they are not
free algorithms. These are SHOULD's in the OpenPGP specifiction. RSA
will likely be supported when the patent runs out this fall. IDEA's
patent does not run out for several years.
NAI's PGP breaks the OpenPGP specifiction with it's new packets such as
the photo-id. I can see that NAI wants to further extend the powers of
PGP, and that is fine with me; however, users should be aware that there
is an open standard with free implementations which anyone can use, and
that not abiding by this standard has a good chance of alienating those
who abide by it.
This the same reason why use of Word documents is highly discouraged over
other open, standards-based forms such as HTML; it would be silly to think
that HTML should try to replace Word, or compensate for it. Sure, MS
wants to further the complexity and power of a Word document, but that
does not in any way mean that the designers of HTML should want or try to
compensate.
Oh, and by the way, when I refer to free I mean Open Source Free.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 15:47:51 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:47:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000414114946.H23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Werner Koch, at 11:49 +0200 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
>
> > As it doesn't look like Blowfish is going to be implemented in PGP, I'd
> > like to see GnuPG give the option to exclude it from the preferences when
> > keys are generated in GnuPG.
>
> No.
Hehehe. Of course, there is _nothing_ stopping Len from editing GnuPG
himself, making the modification, releasing, and continuing to track the
source, to see if users would prefer his modified version. Mmmm, GPL'd
software, crunchy on the outside, soft and gooey in the middle :)
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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From mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu Fri Apr 14 16:22:25 2000
From: mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu (Michael Jinks)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:22:25 -0500
Subject: Compiling on RH-6.2/SPARC
In-Reply-To: <20000414111331.F23984@djebel.gnupg.de>; from wk@gnupg.org on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:13:31AM +0200
References: <20000414003401.B387@harper.uchicago.edu> <20000414111331.F23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000414112225.E28924@harper.uchicago.edu>
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> > Linux embley 2.2.14-5.0 #1 Tue Mar 7 21:50:41 EST 2000 sparc64 unknown
>
> > /home/mjinks/src/gnupg-1.0.1/mpi/mpih-div.c:86: undefined reference to `__udiv_qrnnd'
>
> I have no more access to an UltraSparc, but there might be some fixes
> in 1.0.1d. It used to run on the very first sold UltraPenguin box
> here in Germany, quite a while back.
Well, okay... Would it help if I offered you (or another GPG developer if you
aren't interested or don't have the time) a login on my box? With Ultra's
being so cheap these days, and Solaris still so unusable as a desktop, I can
only imagine that there will be a lot more people in the same boat as me.
I don't have the expertise to debug this myself but I'd like to help any way
I can.
I'd offer to send you an Ultra, but they aren't _that_ cheap. ;)
-m
--
Michael Jinks, IB
Systems Administrator, Chicago Center for Computational Psychology
finger mjinks@embley.spc.uchicago.edu for public key
"
From jgh@megsinet.net Fri Apr 14 16:32:17 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:32:17 -0500
Subject: clearsign?
Message-ID: <4e20b545f3.545f34e20b@core.com>
i am at work, and can't recall offhand....what is a clearsign option?
---
/helfman
"At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has
always been in your possession."
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From wk@gnupg.org Fri Apr 14 17:31:04 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:31:04 +0200
Subject: Compiling on RH-6.2/SPARC
In-Reply-To: <20000414112225.E28924@harper.uchicago.edu>; from mjinks@midway.uchicago.edu on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:22:25AM -0500
References: <20000414003401.B387@harper.uchicago.edu> <20000414111331.F23984@djebel.gnupg.de> <20000414112225.E28924@harper.uchicago.edu>
Message-ID: <20000414193104.R23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Well, okay... Would it help if I offered you (or another GPG developer if you
> aren't interested or don't have the time) a login on my box? With Ultra's
Thanks for this offer, shall I send you my ssh v1 key?
Werner
--
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Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 17:44:05 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:44:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: clearsign?
In-Reply-To: <4e20b545f3.545f34e20b@core.com>
Message-ID:
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Jason Helfman, at 11:32 -0500 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> i am at work, and can't recall offhand....what is a clearsign option?
- --clearsign is a function of GnuPG, if that's what you are asking. You
can generate clear-text signatures with it (like this mail).
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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From jgh@megsinet.net Fri Apr 14 17:52:06 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 12:52:06 -0500
Subject: clearsign?
Message-ID: <569a2576b9.576b9569a2@core.com>
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
----7e536bd43c42470
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
are there any useful macros for this? it seems like it is all
encryption that needs to be decrypted, but yet it isn't. I would like
to see the message you sent in mutt...grrr...i'm behind webmail here
and they are seen as attachments....
I have found these two, thus far...
macro compose \CP "Fgpg --clearsign\ny"
macro compose \CS "Fgpg --clearsing\ny^T^Uapplication/pgp;
format=test; x
I am learning very much by having a pgp enabled client, such as mutt,
but I am still learning. I sat down after I installed gnupg and went
through the entire manual, and that helped explain so much. I found it
much better documented then standard pgp unix released documents. I
could be wrong, but this is what I have found.
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Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:32:17AM -0500, Jason Helfman wrote:
> X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail
^^^
You've got web access there?
> i am at work, and can't recall offhand....what is a clearsign option?
=46rom http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x135.html#AEN152:
# Making and verifying signatures (p1 of=
3)
Clearsigned documents
A common use of digital signatures is to sign usenet postings or
email messages. In such situations it is undesirable to compress the
document while signing it. The option --clearsign causes the document
to be wrapped in an ASCII-armored signature but otherwise does not
modify the document.
alice% gpg --clearsign doc
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Alice (Judge) "
1024-bit DSA key, ID BB7576AC, created 1999-06-04
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
[...]
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Version: GnuPG v0.9.7 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
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Detached signatures
A signed document has limited usefulness. Other users must recover the
original document from the signed version, and even with clearsigned
documents, the signed document must be edited to recover the
original. Therefore, there is a third method for signing a document
that creates a detached signature. A detached signature is created
using the --detach-sig option.
alice% gpg --output doc.sig --detach-sig doc
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Alice (Judge) "
1024-bit DSA key, ID BB7576AC, created 1999-06-04
Enter passphrase:
Both the document and detached signature are needed to verify the
signature. The --verify option can be to check the signature.
blake% gpg --verify doc.sig doc
gpg: Signature made Fri Jun 4 12:38:46 1999 CDT using DSA key ID BB7576AC
gpg: Good signature from "Alice (Judge) "
And from http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r684.html:
clearsign
Name
clearsign -- make a cleartext signature
clearsign filename
Description
This command signs a message that can be verified to ensure that the
original message has not been changed. Verification of the signed
message is done using the command verify.
(The above were only edited for 80-column mail display.)
I hope those help in some way. and of course, I hope the base URL in
there is even more useful in the future. :-)
Oh, and I'll clearsign this. :-) (My MUA is Mutt, so it's easy.)
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From info@jens-lang.de Fri Apr 14 19:16:09 2000
From: info@jens-lang.de (Jens)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:16:09 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: <20000413180208.U23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> > In particular, we would like to use it to generate
> > license keys for the product.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> For what are these good?! Sorry, I won't support such mechanisms and
> it is sad enough that you can use gpg to do this (if it is a different
> process and you promise to deliver the source of gpg)
If you do really think so, then you should IMHO actually ask yourself if
it is a good idea to release gpg under the terms of the GPL.
GPL means - as far as I understand it - that everyone is free to use the
product for whatever reason one wants. This is also valid for commercial
use and even for creating licensing keys.
Sorry to say that, but GPL means freedom.
Gregory, Waiblingen, Germany
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From ats@acm.org Fri Apr 14 20:21:34 2000
From: ats@acm.org (Alan Shutko)
Date: 14 Apr 2000 16:21:34 -0400
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: Jens's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:16:09 +0200 (MEST)"
References:
Message-ID:
Jens writes:
> GPL means - as far as I understand it - that everyone is free to use the
> product for whatever reason one wants. This is also valid for commercial
> use and even for creating licensing keys.
And likewise, when said software calls GPG to verify the license key,
the user can substitute a modified version which returns what the
program wants to hear.
--
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210 days, 19 hours, 14 minutes, 11 seconds till we run away.
The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
From jgh@megsinet.net Fri Apr 14 20:54:52 2000
From: jgh@megsinet.net (Jason Helfman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:54:52 -0500
Subject: key storage
Message-ID: <5cf9a58d4b.58d4b5cf9a@core.com>
Reading through a new book I just received "Practical Unix & Internet
Security," I found a statement about taking much time into learning
about encryption and public key cryptography, don't go ahead and keep
your key rings in your home directory.
If you don't keep them local, where would you keep them, other then an
encrypted filesystem?
---
/helfman
"At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has
always been in your possession."
Fingerprint: 2F76 2856 776A 3E07 9F3E 452A 17D9 9B28 D75E 0A36
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From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 21:03:07 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Three are currently two major things which break compatibility:
> encumbering patents, and PGP.
That's a silly statement.
> RSA and IDEA are not supported by default in GnuPG because they are not
> free algorithms. These are SHOULD's in the OpenPGP specifiction. RSA
> will likely be supported when the patent runs out this fall. IDEA's
> patent does not run out for several years.
Not following SHOULDs, unless there is a very good reason, is bad.
> NAI's PGP breaks the OpenPGP specifiction with it's new packets such as
> the photo-id. I can see that NAI wants to further extend the powers of
> PGP, and that is fine with me; however, users should be aware that there
> is an open standard with free implementations which anyone can use, and
> that not abiding by this standard has a good chance of alienating those
> who abide by it.
Photo-ID and what else? Nothing. And the photo ID breaks nothing,
either. Packet 17 is unused. If it were assigned to something else, and
there was a conflict there, then things would be broken. The fact is the
WG was told about the photo ID, and in my opinion should have made
allowances for it. (The proposal was for a "biometric data packet" that
could contain things like photos, fingerprints, voice-prints, etc.)
And, if you follow the suggestion of the draft:
However, if
an implementation wishes to be compatible with such keys, the
packet may be considered to be a user id packet with opaque
contents.
(As GnuPG does, I believe -- or does it just trim them from the key?), PGP
keys play happiliy with GnuPG.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 21:10:38 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:10:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
L. Sassaman, at 14:03 -0700 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Not following SHOULDs, unless there is a very good reason, is bad.
Are you implying that creating unrestricted, free software is not a "vey
good reason"? Remember, the FSF has strong philosophies which have
changed things for many of us, because of this good reason.
> Photo-ID and what else? Nothing. And the photo ID breaks nothing,
> either.
If this is true, I'll stop arguing this point; I'm sure you've become more
intimate with PGP's internals and the RFC than I have.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 21:16:12 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:16:12 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Jens, at 21:16 +0200 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> GPL means - as far as I understand it - that everyone is free to use the
> product for whatever reason one wants. This is also valid for commercial
> use and even for creating licensing keys.
>
> Sorry to say that, but GPL means freedom.
I totally agree with you on this point. However, I'm interpreting
Warner's statment as expressing his disappointment that people are
'foolishly' still trying to use the concept of license keys to restrict
software. Kinda goes against everything the FSF is against; not that it
minds _that_much_ that people still exhausting energy trying :)
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From ats@acm.org Fri Apr 14 21:20:57 2000
From: ats@acm.org (Alan Shutko)
Date: 14 Apr 2000 17:20:57 -0400
Subject: key storage
In-Reply-To: Jason Helfman's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:54:52 -0500"
References: <5cf9a58d4b.58d4b5cf9a@core.com>
Message-ID:
Jason Helfman writes:
> If you don't keep them local, where would you keep them, other then an
> encrypted filesystem?
A floppy disk, cdrom, compact flash or pcmcia memory card you carried
with you and removed when it wasn't in use?
--
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210 days, 18 hours, 14 minutes, 34 seconds till we run away.
"I am Curly of Borg. Resistance and assimilation is Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!"
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Fri Apr 14 21:33:01 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:33:01 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: key storage
In-Reply-To: <5cf9a58d4b.58d4b5cf9a@core.com>
Message-ID:
Jason Helfman, at 15:54 -0500 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
> If you don't keep them local, where would you keep them, other then an
> encrypted filesystem?
Removable drives (e.g., floppy), or other input devices such as serial
ports provide a decent means of having an 'air-wall' between your secret
keys and the OpenPGP application when they are not in use. There are a
whole bunch of fun/exotic/paranoid measures one could go to to protect
one's secret keys. Lots of them cut down on your productivity,
though. Pick your favorite game.
--
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
From sungod@atdot.org Fri Apr 14 21:33:18 2000
From: sungod@atdot.org (sungod)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:33:18 -0400
Subject: key storage
In-Reply-To: ; from ats@acm.org on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:20:57PM -0400
References: <5cf9a58d4b.58d4b5cf9a@core.com>
Message-ID: <20000414173318.A13233@potok.localdomain>
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 05:20:57PM -0400, Alan Shutko (ats@acm.org) wrote:
> Jason Helfman writes:
>
> > If you don't keep them local, where would you keep them, other then an
> > encrypted filesystem?
>
> A floppy disk, cdrom, compact flash or pcmcia memory card you carried
> with you and removed when it wasn't in use?
This is a really good idea, and I didn't realize until you'd said it that it's (finally) not just possible but downright easy. Anybody know where I can get CD-R blanks that are credit-card sized, like the rescue discs LinuxCare makes? This would be perfect for storing keyrings.
--
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From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 21:41:06 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:41:06 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> Jens, at 21:16 +0200 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > GPL means - as far as I understand it - that everyone is free to use the
> > product for whatever reason one wants. This is also valid for commercial
> > use and even for creating licensing keys.
> >
> > Sorry to say that, but GPL means freedom.
>
> I totally agree with you on this point. However, I'm interpreting
> Warner's statment as expressing his disappointment that people are
> 'foolishly' still trying to use the concept of license keys to restrict
> software. Kinda goes against everything the FSF is against; not that it
> minds _that_much_ that people still exhausting energy trying :)
It's sort of like when people take a product with the BSD license and make
changes and release it under the GPL. It annoys the original authors
incredibly, but it is quite legal.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
From rabbi@quickie.net Fri Apr 14 21:44:50 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:44:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
> L. Sassaman, at 14:03 -0700 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > Not following SHOULDs, unless there is a very good reason, is bad.
>
> Are you implying that creating unrestricted, free software is not a "vey
> good reason"? Remember, the FSF has strong philosophies which have
> changed things for many of us, because of this good reason.
I was not judging the particular case of not including IDEA and RSA. In
fact, the modules almost make up for it (the RSA module doesn't permit key
generation, I don't believe). But I was just pointing out that SHOULD
statements are meant to be followed.
> > Photo-ID and what else? Nothing. And the photo ID breaks nothing,
> > either.
>
> If this is true, I'll stop arguing this point; I'm sure you've become more
> intimate with PGP's internals and the RFC than I have.
If the WG assigned packet 17 to something else, then there would be a
problem. As it is now, Packet 17 is effectively assigned to the
Photo-ID; it just isn't official. I hope the WG makes it so, as the
Photo-ID is not going away, and adding it to the draft would clear up a
potential problem with the standard.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator | "All of the chaos
Technology Consultant | Makes perfect sense..."
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi | --Joe Diffie
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From lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie Sat Apr 15 01:56:48 2000
From: lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie (Lars Hecking)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:56:48 +0100
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:41:06PM -0700
References:
Message-ID: <20000415025648.B17019@tehran.nmrc.ucc.ie>
> > I totally agree with you on this point. However, I'm interpreting
> > Warner's statment as expressing his disappointment that people are
> > 'foolishly' still trying to use the concept of license keys to restrict
> > software. Kinda goes against everything the FSF is against; not that it
> > minds _that_much_ that people still exhausting energy trying :)
>
> It's sort of like when people take a product with the BSD license and make
> changes and release it under the GPL. It annoys the original authors
> incredibly, but it is quite legal.
That's because the BSD licence has more freedom than the GPL.
BSD vs. GPL wars are bloody boring. Instead, take a licence that only
allows you to distribute modifications as patches, and the original
authors and (C) holders have dropped out of development ages ago.
That is _real_ fun:-(
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sat Apr 15 10:21:49 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:21:49 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: About Symmetric Ciphers.
In-Reply-To: <20000414102543.B23984@djebel.gnupg.de> from Werner Koch at "Apr 14, 2000 10:25:43 am"
Message-ID: <200004151021.MAA03042@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Werner Koch wrote:
> Just curious how you achieve to create and remember a passphrase
> yielding enough entropy for a 256 bit key, this seems impossible for
> me without a hardware token.
Personally I don't, but to be honest I still use 128-bits IDEA for my
archives (I doubt scientology will be able to break that by brute-force
anyway). But if you use entire sentences for your passphrases, with
ElItE c00l spelling and so, wouldn't that suffice?
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sat Apr 15 10:57:25 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:57:25 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: from Jens at "Apr 14, 2000 09:16:09 pm"
Message-ID: <200004151057.MAA03276@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
You, Jens, wrote:
[Werner Koch]
>> For what are these good?! Sorry, I won't support such mechanisms and
>> it is sad enough that you can use gpg to do this (if it is a different
>> process and you promise to deliver the source of gpg)
> If you do really think so, then you should IMHO actually ask yourself if
> it is a good idea to release gpg under the terms of the GPL.
My opinion with respect to this is that GPL is the lesser evil here.
Explicitly disallowing certain uses causes more problems than it's woth IMO,
without solving any problems (see the crypto export rules from the USA, do
they really believe that Iraq and North-Korea don't get pgp when if they
want to have it?).
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sat Apr 15 10:44:08 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:44:08 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: from "L. Sassaman" at "Apr 14, 2000 02:23:16 am"
Message-ID: <200004151044.MAA03171@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
L. Sassaman wrote:
> As it doesn't look like Blowfish is going to be implemented in PGP,
I don't follow the recent pgp development closely, but I thought it's
source is still available. Is it difficult to write Blowfish modules for
pgp 6.x like the ones for GnuPG?
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From Florian.Weimer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de Sat Apr 15 18:13:07 2000
From: Florian.Weimer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Florian Weimer)
Date: 15 Apr 2000 20:13:07 +0200
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: Jens's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 21:16:09 +0200 (MEST)"
References:
Message-ID:
Jens writes:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
>
> > > In particular, we would like to use it to generate
> > > license keys for the product.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > For what are these good?! Sorry, I won't support such mechanisms and
> > it is sad enough that you can use gpg to do this (if it is a different
> > process and you promise to deliver the source of gpg)
> If you do really think so, then you should IMHO actually ask yourself if
> it is a good idea to release gpg under the terms of the GPL.
Eh, do you really think a free software author is forced to support
silly (sorry, Patrick) user requests?
> Sorry to say that, but GPL means freedom.
Yes, but this kind of freedom might even be abused to restrict freedom
of others. And that's certainly a sad thing.
From wk@gnupg.org Sun Apr 16 13:01:27 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:01:27 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:44:50PM -0700
References:
Message-ID: <20000416150127.C17249@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> I was not judging the particular case of not including IDEA and RSA. In
It is perfectly okay not to include those algorithms. The IETF
prefers unpatened algorithms if it can be done at all and one of the
reasons why we have this whole OpenPGP think, is that it now allows
free usage of a protocol.
> fact, the modules almost make up for it (the RSA module doesn't permit key
> generation, I don't believe). But I was just pointing out that SHOULD
And with a good reason. 2 years back most folks agredd on that RSA is
a bad thing. I remember that Phil called my on the phone to make sure
that GnuPG will not switch to RSA!
Because it sometimes makes sense to create RSA keys, GnuPG will have
this feature on Sep 20th.
> If the WG assigned packet 17 to something else, then there would be a
> problem. As it is now, Packet 17 is effectively assigned to the
> Photo-ID; it just isn't official. I hope the WG makes it so, as the
That is the reason why there are these experimental/private packet
numbers.
These whole compatibilty story to PGP remembers me a bit of the strategy
other (big) verndors are driving. Take a standard, add some nice little
gadget which is not covered by the standard and claim that you use the new
Standard. Microsoft did this recently with Kerberos.
BTW, does PGP 6,7 or whatever now create v4 signature packets or does GnuPG
still need the --force-v3-sigs option?
Werner
p.s. This discussion should be done on the OpenPGP ML.
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Sun Apr 16 13:02:11 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:02:11 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <200004151044.MAA03171@vulcan.xs4all.nl>; from johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 12:44:08PM +0200
References: <200004151044.MAA03171@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <20000416150211.D17249@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> I don't follow the recent pgp development closely, but I thought it's
> source is still available. Is it difficult to write Blowfish modules for
> pgp 6.x like the ones for GnuPG?
First look at the license....
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From wk@gnupg.org Sun Apr 16 13:10:51 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:10:51 +0200
Subject: GPL & GnuPG
In-Reply-To: ; from info@jens-lang.de on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 09:16:09PM +0200
References: <20000413180208.U23984@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000416151051.E17249@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Jens wrote:
> GPL means - as far as I understand it - that everyone is free to use the
> product for whatever reason one wants. This is also valid for commercial
> use and even for creating licensing keys.
>
> Sorry to say that, but GPL means freedom.
Yes. I simply expressed that I am not very happy about that usage. But
I can't and will never decide who is going to use a software; that is
simply not up to me. There are many other usage patterns I certainly
don't like (miltitary usage) and which I won't support either voluntary or
paid.
There is a big difference between supporting a software and allowing
to use it.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sun Apr 16 14:40:41 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:40:41 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000416150211.D17249@djebel.gnupg.de> from Werner Koch at "Apr 16, 2000 03:02:11 pm"
Message-ID: <200004161440.QAA02811@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Werner Koch wrote:
>>I don't follow the recent pgp development closely, but I thought it's
>>source is still available. Is it difficult to write Blowfish modules for
>>pgp 6.x like the ones for GnuPG?
> First look at the license....
I don't hve the licence here, but the question that would count to me is:
would NAI go and sue when someone writes a patch or plugin module for pgp
for Blowfish? And if so, would they probably win?
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sun Apr 16 14:38:28 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 16:38:28 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000416150127.C17249@djebel.gnupg.de> from Werner Koch at "Apr 16, 2000 03:01:27 pm"
Message-ID: <200004161438.QAA02802@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Werner Koch wrote:
> And with a good reason. 2 years back most folks agredd on that RSA is
> a bad thing.
Due to legal or due to technical reasons? I believe that most cryptographers
believe that when you crack one algorithm you can probably also crack the
other so I guess it are non-technical reasons.
> These whole compatibilty story to PGP remembers me a bit of the strategy
> other (big) verndors are driving. Take a standard, add some nice little
> gadget which is not covered by the standard and claim that you use the new
> Standard. Microsoft did this recently with Kerberos.
The difference here is that MS is not publishing its changes so any tool
that wants to be compatible, like Samba, must reverse-engineer the changes.
That is not the case with the photo-ID packets.
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From wk@gnupg.org Sun Apr 16 16:23:25 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:23:25 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <200004161438.QAA02802@vulcan.xs4all.nl>; from johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 04:38:28PM +0200
References: <20000416150127.C17249@djebel.gnupg.de> <200004161438.QAA02802@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID: <20000416182325.B23225@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Due to legal or due to technical reasons? I believe that most cryptographers
> believe that when you crack one algorithm you can probably also crack the
v3 RSA keys also for technical reasons.
> The difference here is that MS is not publishing its changes so any tool
> that wants to be compatible, like Samba, must reverse-engineer the changes.
> That is not the case with the photo-ID packets.
I have never seen a description of the Photo-ID, although NAI promised a
long time ago to send specs to the WG. I had to do some reverse
engineering on that data packet too.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From richard@sheflug.co.uk Sat Apr 15 23:56:14 2000
From: richard@sheflug.co.uk (Richard)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 00:56:14 +0100
Subject: GPG Configuration
Message-ID: <38F9019E.2E3064CB@sheflug.co.uk>
Hello
I've installed GPG and more or less worked out what to do with it.
The part that I can't work out is how to tell GPG where my keys are. By
that I mean the floppy drive a:. How do I tell it to check the floppy
drive ?
Thanks
--
Richard
Sheffield UK
From dstenn@fanfic.org Sun Apr 16 17:31:18 2000
From: dstenn@fanfic.org (Dennis Tenn)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: GPG Configuration
In-Reply-To: <38F9019E.2E3064CB@sheflug.co.uk>
Message-ID:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Richard wrote:
|Hello
|
|I've installed GPG and more or less worked out what to do with it.
|
|The part that I can't work out is how to tell GPG where my keys are. By
|that I mean the floppy drive a:. How do I tell it to check the floppy
|drive ?
'man gpg'
You would've found the option '--homedir'
--homedir directory
Set the name of the home directory to directory
If this option is not used it defaults to
"~/.gnupg". It does not make sense to use this
in a options file. This also overrides the envi-
ronment variable "GNUPGHOME".
Set the environment variable and make sure you have the floppy mounted.
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From richard@sheflug.co.uk Sun Apr 16 00:10:27 2000
From: richard@sheflug.co.uk (Richard)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:10:27 +0100
Subject: GPG Configuration
References:
Message-ID: <38F904F3.671D298E@sheflug.co.uk>
Dennis
Dennis Tenn wrote:
>
> You would've found the option '--homedir'
Thanks very much :-)
--
Richard
Sheffield Linux
User's Group
Sheffield UK
http://www.sheflug.co.uk
From johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl Sun Apr 16 18:44:16 2000
From: johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl (Johan Wevers)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:44:16 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000416182325.B23225@djebel.gnupg.de> from Werner Koch at "Apr 16, 2000 06:23:25 pm"
Message-ID: <200004161844.UAA03206@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Werner Koch wrote:
> I have never seen a description of the Photo-ID, although NAI promised a
> long time ago to send specs to the WG. I had to do some reverse
> engineering on that data packet too.
And it's also not available in the pgp source?
Anyway, that's a bad thing. If NAI wants this to make it in a future RFC
then they should at least publish it.
--
ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site:
johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Sun Apr 16 22:15:53 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:15:53 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: ann: release of GnuPG::Interface 0.01
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I am pleased to announce the first release of GnuPG::Interface.
GnuPG::Interface, the successor to PGP::GPG::MessageProcessor, is a Perl
module interface to interacting with GnuPG. It implements a rich set of
bidirectional communications with GnuPG through filehandles and includes a
rich GnuPG-key object organization structure, which has information filled
in by parsing GnuPG's key listing's with-colons option.
While this module is at 0.01, I have done extensive testing to help ensure
that the module works correctly. Comments are welcomed.
The current homepage of GnuPG::Interface is at:
http://www.neverending.org/~ftobin/resources/
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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From rabbi@quickie.net Mon Apr 17 02:29:34 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:29:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <200004161438.QAA02802@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> Werner Koch wrote:
>
> > And with a good reason. 2 years back most folks agredd on that RSA is
> > a bad thing.
>
> Due to legal or due to technical reasons? I believe that most cryptographers
> believe that when you crack one algorithm you can probably also crack the
> other so I guess it are non-technical reasons.
Mainly non-technical. In order to use RSA in the US, you need to either
use BSAFE (with a license) or RSAREF (for free). PGP used to have a
custom-written RSA implementation that was a lot faster than BSAFE, but we
can't use it. Yet. :)
Also, v3 keys aren't as good as v4 keys. With v4 keys, you can have
a different key for signing then for encrypting (actually, it is necessary
if you choose to use DSS as the signing key). RSA v4 keys are possible as
well, and pose no real security advantages or disadvantages; two RSA keys
are created, and one is designated the signing key and the other the
encrypting key. So it isn't really RSA the algorithm that is the problem,
it is v3 keys and the RSA legal mess. Both of which are going away.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator |
Technology Consultant | [This space for rent]
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iEYEARECAAYFAjj6dx4ACgkQPYrxsgmsCmpoygCfVweUu8NsH4NL2keY7UE0LvTh
pE8AoLt/VEfj8/q14sGGTWm9JV9E48Xz
=g0qv
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From rabbi@quickie.net Mon Apr 17 02:31:34 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:31:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <200004161844.UAA03206@vulcan.xs4all.nl>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Johan Wevers wrote:
> And it's also not available in the pgp source?
>
> Anyway, that's a bad thing. If NAI wants this to make it in a future RFC
> then they should at least publish it.
Everything is in the source. Even things that aren't in the Freeware
version.
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator |
Technology Consultant | [This space for rent]
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iEYEARECAAYFAjj6d44ACgkQPYrxsgmsCmoOFACffwuv9hrHloZ94ntD7FUjoDiw
W8gAoLC1ppFZJHd8aVR439psv0tmiz4S
=qTDK
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From rabbi@quickie.net Mon Apr 17 02:42:37 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: <20000416150127.C17249@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Werner Koch wrote:
> That is the reason why there are these experimental/private packet
> numbers.
And also the reason that the X.509 certificate takes those numbers. At the
time of the photo-id creation, it was fully expected to be part of the
standard.
> These whole compatibilty story to PGP remembers me a bit of the strategy
> other (big) verndors are driving. Take a standard, add some nice little
> gadget which is not covered by the standard and claim that you use the new
> Standard. Microsoft did this recently with Kerberos.
Ugh. Please don't compare PGP to Microsoft. Microsoft intentionally broke
Kerberos so that people would be forced to use its products. (Or that's my
take on it anyway). Believe me, breaking the OpenPGP standard is the last
thing we want to do.
Here's the original proposal:
http://www.imc.org/ietf-open-pgp/mail-archive/msg01196.html
- --Len.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator |
Technology Consultant | [This space for rent]
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |
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Comment: OpenPGP Encrypted Email Preferred.
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ogGkdXb2TtLS0t9nVeP6tOg=
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-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From 0@pigdog.org Mon Apr 17 05:26:56 2000
From: 0@pigdog.org (0)
Date: 16 Apr 2000 22:26:56 -0700
Subject: Determining Key Algorithm?
Message-ID:
So, I have a number of keys in my PGP (2.6.x) keyring and my GPG
keyring. I'd like to be able to figure out which ones use which
algorithm.
Is there an easy way to do this?
~0
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Mon Apr 17 06:31:21 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:31:21 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Determining Key Algorithm?
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
0, at 22:26 -0700 on 16 Apr 2000, wrote:
> So, I have a number of keys in my PGP (2.6.x) keyring and my GPG
> keyring. I'd like to be able to figure out which ones use which
> algorithm.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
The "with-colons" options should achieve what you want. Details are
spelled out in GnuPG's DETAILS file.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD)
Comment: pgpenvelope - http://pgpenvelope.sourceforge.net/
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=TlXM
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From wk@gnupg.org Mon Apr 17 08:44:17 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 10:44:17 +0200
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 07:42:37PM -0700
References: <20000416150127.C17249@djebel.gnupg.de>
Message-ID: <20000417104417.F25209@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> Here's the original proposal:
>
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-open-pgp/mail-archive/msg01196.html
It is dated March 1998 and I can't remember that it ever has been
in a draft nor is it in RFC2440 (November 98). This cleary means, it
is not part of OpenPGP. The WG has decided on this and that is the
entity which decides. During the process of creating OpenPGP the
other implementors did change there apps to be in compliance with the
draft or the final specs, PGP didn't.
Werner
--
Werner Koch OpenPGP key 621CC013
OpenIT GmbH tel +49 211 239577-0
Birkenstr. 12 email wk@openit.de
D-40233 Duesseldorf http://www.openit.de
From mwood@IUPUI.Edu Mon Apr 17 13:28:29 2000
From: mwood@IUPUI.Edu (Mark H. Wood)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 08:28:29 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Compatibility
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, L. Sassaman wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Frank Tobin wrote:
[snip]
> > RSA and IDEA are not supported by default in GnuPG because they are not
> > free algorithms. These are SHOULD's in the OpenPGP specifiction. RSA
> > will likely be supported when the patent runs out this fall. IDEA's
> > patent does not run out for several years.
>
> Not following SHOULDs, unless there is a very good reason, is bad.
Wishing not to go to jail for using patented algorithms without a license
is a very good reason, IMHO.
--
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mwood@IUPUI.Edu
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
-- Marvin Martian, 01/01/2000 00:00:00
From richard@sheflug.co.uk Mon Apr 17 16:02:22 2000
From: richard@sheflug.co.uk (Richard)
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 17:02:22 +0100
Subject: GPG Configuration
References:
Message-ID: <38FB358E.2C567595@sheflug.co.uk>
Dear all
Thanks for your help
> 'man gpg'
>
> You would've found the option '--homedir'
>in the options file or on the command line. Look at --keyring and
>--no-default-keyring on the man page.
As an aside to this I thought I'd mention that when I did "man gpg" I
got......
"No man page due to missing docbook-to-man"
So, maybe it's missing ? Downloaded from.....
http://www.gnupg.org
Thanks :-)
--
Richard
Sheffield UK
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From Ralf.Strandell@silja.com Tue Apr 18 12:24:37 2000
From: Ralf.Strandell@silja.com (Strandell, Ralf)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:24:37 +0300
Subject: How to make gnupg-1.0.1 on Unixware 7.0.1 ?
Message-ID:
Hello
Does anybody know how to make a working installation from
gnupg-1.0.1 source on ( SCO ) Unixware 7.0.1 ?
I allways get these error messages when making:
# make
UX:make: WARNING: No suffix list.
make all-recursive
UX:make: WARNING: No suffix list.
Making all in intl
Making all in zlib
Making all in util
Making all in mpi
UX:make: ERROR: don't know how to make mpih-mul1.o (bu42).
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
UX:make: ERROR: fatal error.
*** Error code 1 (bu21)
UX:make: ERROR: fatal error.
--------------------------------------------
- Ralf -
From lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie Tue Apr 18 13:19:14 2000
From: lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie (Lars Hecking)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 14:19:14 +0100
Subject: How to make gnupg-1.0.1 on Unixware 7.0.1 ?
In-Reply-To: ; from Ralf.Strandell@silja.com on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 03:24:37PM +0300
References:
Message-ID: <20000418141914.A4403@tehran.nmrc.ucc.ie>
> Does anybody know how to make a working installation from
> gnupg-1.0.1 source on ( SCO ) Unixware 7.0.1 ?
>
> I allways get these error messages when making:
>
> # make
> UX:make: WARNING: No suffix list.
> make all-recursive
> UX:make: WARNING: No suffix list.
> Making all in intl
> Making all in zlib
> Making all in util
> Making all in mpi
> UX:make: ERROR: don't know how to make mpih-mul1.o (bu42).
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> UX:make: ERROR: fatal error.
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> UX:make: ERROR: fatal error.
Check whether there's a port of GNU make for your platform
and try it.
From wk@gnupg.org Tue Apr 18 13:43:33 2000
From: wk@gnupg.org (Werner Koch)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 15:43:33 +0200
Subject: How to make gnupg-1.0.1 on Unixware 7.0.1 ?
In-Reply-To: ; from Ralf.Strandell@silja.com on Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 03:24:37PM +0300
References:
Message-ID: <20000418154333.C29098@djebel.gnupg.de>
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Strandell, Ralf wrote:
> Making all in mpi
> UX:make: ERROR: don't know how to make mpih-mul1.o (bu42).
Use GNU make
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From abz@oasis.vino.co.za Tue Apr 18 22:45:36 2000
From: abz@oasis.vino.co.za (Abraham vd Merwe)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:45:36 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Message-ID:
Hi!
I'm busy working on a package manager for some platform. We want to sign
packages for authentication, and use gpg to do this of course, but we're
worried about US import/export laws regarding strong cryptography.
Is it legal to import/export gpg to the USA? If so, what about commercial
entities?
Regards
Abraham
PS: Please reply to me directly or cc me at least - I'm not subscribed to
the list.
From ftobin@uiuc.edu Wed Apr 19 02:07:51 2000
From: ftobin@uiuc.edu (Frank Tobin)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 21:07:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
Abraham vd Merwe, at 22:45 -0000 on Tue, 18 Apr 2000, wrote:
> Is it legal to import/export gpg to the USA?
As far as I know, there are no problems for cryptographic software
arriving in the US, only the other way around (and is changing, too, for
the better).
> If so, what about commercial entities?
I don't see why this would have any bearing on anything. GnuPG is
released under the GPL, which means it can be used for commercial and
non-commercial purposes.
- --
Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
"To learn what is good and what is to be valued,
those truths which cannot be shaken or changed." Myst: The Book of Atrus
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From adavid@deetya.gov.au Wed Apr 19 04:34:54 2000
From: adavid@deetya.gov.au (Anthony David)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:34:54 +1000 (EST)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Message-ID: <200004190434.OAA23585@name-ext.deetya.gov.au>
Frank Tobin writes:
> Abraham vd Merwe, at 22:45 -0000 on Tue, 18 Apr 2000, wrote:
>
> > Is it legal to import/export gpg to the USA?
>
> As far as I know, there are no problems for cryptographic software
> arriving in the US, only the other way around (and is changing, too, for
> the better).
>
> > If so, what about commercial entities?
>
> I don't see why this would have any bearing on anything. GnuPG is
> released under the GPL, which means it can be used for commercial and
> non-commercial purposes.
As long as the terms of the license are adhered to.
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=========================================================
Gambling: A discretionary tax on | Anthony David
those who were asleep during high | Systems Administrator
school mathematics classes |
From abz@oasis.vino.co.za Wed Apr 19 08:53:50 2000
From: abz@oasis.vino.co.za (Abraham vd Merwe)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 08:53:50 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
Hi!
> > Is it legal to import/export gpg to the USA?
>
> As far as I know, there are no problems for cryptographic software
> arriving in the US, only the other way around (and is changing, too, for
> the better).
Well, the other thing I've been wondering about is, why is it legal to
export signed messages in the US - Isn't that a violation as well?
Regards
Abraham
From Pierre-Henri.Senesi@taloa.unice.fr Wed Apr 19 09:19:15 2000
From: Pierre-Henri.Senesi@taloa.unice.fr (Pierre-Henri SENESI)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:19:15 +0200
Subject: Cannot verify PGP5.0i Signature
References:
Message-ID: <38FD7A13.D10DA53E@taloa.unice.fr>
I am tired of receiving dozens of messages of this list.
I tried many times to unsubscribe. The mailing system does not work properly
and the owner of the list (Lord of the Lists ) explains
me that I am not subscribed. It appears now to me as harassment.
If everybody from the list reads this message he will probably understand his
mistake and maybe do his duty.
From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 19 10:04:35 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:04:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To:
Message-ID:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Abraham vd Merwe wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Is it legal to import/export gpg to the USA?
> >
> > As far as I know, there are no problems for cryptographic software
> > arriving in the US, only the other way around (and is changing, too, for
> > the better).
>
> Well, the other thing I've been wondering about is, why is it legal to
> export signed messages in the US - Isn't that a violation as well?
No. That would make no sense at all. it has always been legal to
"export" signed or encrypted messages.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator |
Technology Consultant | [This space for rent]
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |
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From mstevens@imaginet.co.uk Wed Apr 19 10:10:02 2000
From: mstevens@imaginet.co.uk (Michael Stevens)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:10:02 +0100
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To: ; from rabbi@quickie.net on Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:04:35AM -0700
References:
Message-ID: <20000419111002.D17552@imaginet.co.uk>
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:04:35AM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > Well, the other thing I've been wondering about is, why is it legal to
> > export signed messages in the US - Isn't that a violation as well?
> No. That would make no sense at all. it has always been legal to
> "export" signed or encrypted messages.
You say that like encryption related laws are usually sensible.
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From rabbi@quickie.net Wed Apr 19 10:12:54 2000
From: rabbi@quickie.net (L. Sassaman)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 03:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To: <20000419111002.D17552@imaginet.co.uk>
Message-ID:
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Hash: SHA1
On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:04:35AM -0700, L. Sassaman wrote:
> > > Well, the other thing I've been wondering about is, why is it legal to
> > > export signed messages in the US - Isn't that a violation as well?
> > No. That would make no sense at all. it has always been legal to
> > "export" signed or encrypted messages.
>
> You say that like encryption related laws are usually sensible.
Laugh. True enough. But you can sort of stretch your mind to somewhat
understand the idea that allowing crypto programs to be exported would be
prohibited. But having a signed message doesn't give the individual any
benefit if he doesn't have the technology already.
__
L. Sassaman
System Administrator |
Technology Consultant | [This space for rent]
icq.. 10735603 |
pgp.. finger://ns.quickie.net/rabbi |
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From mstevens@imaginet.co.uk Wed Apr 19 10:14:35 2000
From: mstevens@imaginet.co.uk (Michael Stevens)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:14:35 +0100
Subject: Unidentified subject!
In-Reply-To: