Re: Online GNU PGP was security-team Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

[Tristan Santore]

On 26/08/14 14:44, Mohammed umar Sheriff wrote:
>  An online version of GNU PGP signature creation will be very
> helpful.My laptop is not booting since 
i used GNU PGP.
>  On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:30 PM, 
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>         1. Re: Duplicate bugs or? (Eric H. Christensen)
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>      Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:03:19 -0400
>      From: "Eric H. Christensen" <sparks(a)fedoraproject.org
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>      Subject: Re: Duplicate bugs or?
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>  On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:03:59PM -0400, David Cafaro wrote:
>  > Was looking over Torque bugs (I have one I'm working on), and
>  noticed these two which are fst_owner=Sparks:
>
>  Yeah, I had grabbed them as a result of them being EPEL orphans.
>
>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098583
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>  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1098584
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>  > They appear to be duplicates of each other.  The both refer to the
>  same CVE and say they cover EPEL-ALL (yet both list EL6 as version).
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>  Because of limited functionality in BZ, when a vulnerability affects
>  all EPEL versions a single ticket is opened (EPEL-ALL) but the version
>  is the latest version seen (in this case el6).
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>  > Am I missing something or are they duplicates?  Or should one cover EL5?
>
>  These do appear to be duplicates.  This could have been a script
>  error.  Since these tickets were opened back in May I suspect the
>  problem has been remedied but I'll verify.  Thanks for bringing this
>  to my attention.
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>  -- Eric
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Mohammed,

First of all, we do not use PGP, we use GnuPG (GPG), which are two very
distinct applications with their own issues.
Secondly, an online signature generation would be a potential security
issue, as keys to generate the signature would have to be stored online
too. Keys should be securely stored on a users keyring, and that keyring
should preferably be stored off a computer system anyway, for example
using a smartcard.
Thirdly, I doubt very much that GnuPG (GPG) would make your system
unbootable, which leads me to an earlier point of, if people gain access
to your computing device, your keys are not safe.
Did somebody exploit your system ? Or did you mess about ?

Regards,

Tristan

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