Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-29 Thread isis agora lovecruft
Sherief Alaa transcribed 13K bytes: > Hi Everyone, > > (moving this email from the support-team ML to tor-dev as Runa suggested.) > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I > find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through > the comman

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-24 Thread Lunar
Matt Pagan: > If you go the browser extension route, there is a now defunct > Firefox add-on called FireGPG that implemented GnuPG in the web > browser. This add-on was discontinued in 2010 and it's primary focus > was encrypting and decrypting gmail messages. […] I'd like to remember everyone tha

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Matt Pagan
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:59:23 -0400 Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification > > > because I find guiding users through the verification process on > > > Windows/Mac through the co

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Moritz Bartl
On 09/24/2013 05:42 AM, Matt Pagan wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification > If you go the browser extension route, there is a now defunct > Firefox add-on called FireGPG that implemented GnuPG in

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread adrelanos
Nima: > Sherief Alaa: >> But this is all an endless chain because lets say I download TBB, then >> download gpg to verify it but then how do I make sure that gpg it self >> wasn't tampered with? (assuming I don't have it installed already.) > > Indeed that's an endless chain and turtles all the wa

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread adrelanos
Hi Sherief, this is actually a complex problem. Thanks for trying to solve it. With all due respect, I must say, what you are trying is just another hack to attempt to solve a problem at a higher level, which can not be solved at the level you are trying to solve it. Some time ago, I wrote about

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Nima
Sherief Alaa: > But this is all an endless chain because lets say I download TBB, then > download gpg to verify it but then how do I make sure that gpg it self > wasn't tampered with? (assuming I don't have it installed already.) Indeed that's an endless chain and turtles all the way down. plus (a

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 05:45:36PM -0400, Sukhbir Singh wrote: > > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I > > find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through > > the command line painful. > > Just a thought: have you considered doing thi

Re: [tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Sukhbir Singh
Sherief Alaa wrote: > I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I > find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through > the command line painful. > > Tools in use: > - Python 3.3 or 2.7 (still didn't decide yet). > - PyQT > - python-gnupg-0.3

[tor-dev] File verification GUI tool

2013-09-23 Thread Sherief Alaa
Hi Everyone, (moving this email from the support-team ML to tor-dev as Runa suggested.) I am starting to work on a small GUI tool for file verification because I find guiding users through the verification process on Windows/Mac through the command line painful. Tools in use: - Python 3.3 or 2.7