[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#752260: suggest parcimonie to slowly refresh the public keyring

ilf ilf at zeromail.org
Sat Jun 21 19:04:13 UTC 2014


Package: gnupg
Version: 1.4.16-1.1

Please add "parcimonie" to Suggests.

 From Riseup Labs OpenPGP Best Practices:

> Make sure you are receiving regular key updates. 
> If you do not regularly refresh your public keys, you do not get 
> timely expirations or revocations, both of which are very important to 
> be aware of! 
> If you do a simple ‘gpg —refresh-keys’, you disclose to anyone 
> listening, and the keyserver operator, the whole set of keys that you 
> are interested in refreshing. 
> To avoid this, you can do regular key updates by using parcimonie to 
> refresh your keyring. Parcimonie is a daemon that slowly refreshes 
> your keyring from a keyserver over Tor. It uses a randomized sleep, 
> and fresh tor circuits for each key. The purpose is to make it hard 
> for an attacker to correlate the key updates with your keyring. 
> Parcimonie is packaged in both debian and ubuntu.

https://we.riseup.net/riseuplabs+paow/openpgp-best-practices

Since parcimonie seems to be the only tool to do this that has a Debian 
package, this seems the perfect suggestion.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

-- 
ilf

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