X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=website%2Fnews%2Fmodified-gnutls-2.4.x-available.mdwn;h=44e08d06a873f60c03f5aa8d24636cb45c744b30;hb=75e989ccee39ce99a44898cec16229f74f515efe;hp=d933675a18b7ab7b9548c48b2bd010ca8abb43d9;hpb=48067bbda5a53150ae4810544ead38c06f23c0a3;p=monkeysphere.git diff --git a/website/news/modified-gnutls-2.4.x-available.mdwn b/website/news/modified-gnutls-2.4.x-available.mdwn index d933675..44e08d0 100644 --- a/website/news/modified-gnutls-2.4.x-available.mdwn +++ b/website/news/modified-gnutls-2.4.x-available.mdwn @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ circumstances. You can track this package in debian lenny by adding the following lines to `/etc/apt/sources.list`: - deb http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls - deb-src http://monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls + deb http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls + deb-src http://archive.monkeysphere.info/debian experimental gnutls Or you can patch and build the packages yourself with the patches and scripts provided in [the MonkeySphere git repo](/download). @@ -24,12 +24,27 @@ simply allows a "secret" key block to be written *without* storing any of the secret key material. This is used by GnuPG on the primary key when the `--export-secret-subkeys` argument is given. -You can read notes about the GNU S2K extensions in DETAILS from GnuPG, -which you can fetch this way: +GnuPG's [DETAILS +file](http://cvs.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/doc/DETAILS?root=GnuPG) +describes this extension this way: - svn co svn://cvs.gnupg.org/gnupg/trunk/doc - less doc/DETAILS + GNU extensions to the S2K algorithm + =================================== + S2K mode 101 is used to identify these extensions. + After the hash algorithm the 3 bytes "GNU" are used to make + clear that these are extensions for GNU, the next bytes gives the + GNU protection mode - 1000. Defined modes are: + 1001 - do not store the secret part at all + 1002 - a stub to access smartcards (not used in 1.2.x) +And [`gpg(1)`](http://linux.die.net/man/1/gpg) says of `--export-secret-subkeys`: + + + [This] command has the special property to render the secret + part of the primary key useless; this is a GNU extension to + OpenPGP and other implementations can not be expected to + successfully import such a key. + A version of this patch was first proposed [on `gnutls-dev`](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2008-08/msg00005.html), and looks like it will be adopted upstream in the GnuTLS 2.6.x series,