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DebConf provisional schedule draft and holidays

Good news, the DebConf provisional schedule is finally available. If you see any problem, please, let us to know at schedule@debconf.org

If you are interested in Debian and Free Software and close to Cáceres, you are very welcome to come to the Debian Open Day on 24th July. The schedule for the Open Day is still not closed but you can see some of the planned talks already.

They were 2 long days trying to put it all together. What I was planning to do last weekend was mostly planning my holidays through Iceland, but ended doing this instead. Funnily, what Andreas Tille was mostly planning to do in the weekend was the DebConf scheduling, but he spend some hours in the saturday writing a mail about Iceland that has almost become my planning for the holidays :)
He documented his mail with some of his great pictures. If you were amazed by earlier pictures of Iceland in Planet Debian, check Andreas' !

The freedom to choose

John, no need to be so alarmist, this is KDE, look at the options:

Okular settings

Creating a new GPG key

I wanted to renew my GPG key for some time and after reading the latest news, I finally have generated a new key today.

pub   4096R/6AA15948 2009-05-10
      Key fingerprint = 7A33 ECAA 188B 96F2 7C91  7288 B346 4F89 6AA1 5948
uid                  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
uid                  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>
sub   4096R/2497B8B2 2009-05-10


Since I tend to forget this stuff, I am blogging all the steps I have followed.
Long and verbose post follows...

Update .gnupg/gpg.conf

Add at the end of the file:

personal-digest-preferences SHA256
cert-digest-algo SHA256
default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed

Create key

Update September'2009: If you are using gnupg 1.4.0 or higher, the options have changed. You can select directly the option (1) RSA and RSA (default), then you also create a subkey for encryption at the same time you create your new key and you can skip the “Add subkey for encryption” step.

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --gen-key
 ...

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (1) DSA and Elgamal (default)        
   (2) DSA (sign only)                  
   (5) RSA (sign only)                  
Your selection? 5                       
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096           
Requested keysize is 4096 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)
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y

 ...

Real name: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López
Email address: ana@ekaia.org
Comment:
You are using the `utf-8' character set.
You selected this USER-ID:
    "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o
You need a Passphrase to protect your secret key.

 ...

gpg: key 6AA15948 marked as ultimately trusted
public and secret key created and signed.

gpg: checking the trustdb

 ...

gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, classic trust model
gpg: depth: 0  valid:   3  signed:   0  trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 3u
pub   4096R/6AA15948 2009-05-10
      Key fingerprint = 7A33 ECAA 188B 96F2 7C91  7288 B346 4F89 6AA1 5948
uid                  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>

Note that this key cannot be used for encryption.  You may want to use
the command "--edit-key" to generate a subkey for this purpose.

Add other UID

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --edit-key 0x6AA15948            
 ...                             
command> adduid
Real name: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López
Email address: ana@debian.org
Comment:
You are using the `utf-8' character set.
You selected this USER-ID:
    "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>"

Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? o

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 6AA15948, created 2009-05-10


pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
[ unknown] (2). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Command> save

Change preferences

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --edit-key 0x6AA15948
 ...
Command> showpref
[ultimate] (1). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
     Digest: SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160
     Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify
[ultimate] (2)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
     Digest: SHA1, SHA256, RIPEMD160
     Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

Command>  setpref SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed
Set preference list to:
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
     Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
     Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify
Really update the preferences? (y/N) y
gpg: WARNING: no user ID has been marked as primary.  This command may
              cause a different user ID to become the assumed primary.

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 6AA15948, created 2009-05-10


pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>
[ultimate] (2). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>

Command> showpref
[ultimate] (1)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
     Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
     Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify
[ultimate] (2). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
     Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, CAST5, 3DES
     Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
     Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
     Features: MDC, Keyserver no-modify

Command> save

Set primary UID

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --edit-key 0x6AA15948
  ...
Command> uid 1

pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1)* Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
[ultimate] (2)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Command> primary

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 6AA15948, created 2009-05-10


pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
[ultimate] (1)* Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
[ultimate] (2)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Command> save

Add subkey for encryption

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --edit-key 0x6AA15948
  ...
Command> addkey
Key is protected.

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>"
4096-bit RSA key, ID 6AA15948, created 2009-05-10

Please select what kind of key you want:
   (2) DSA (sign only)
   (4) Elgamal (encrypt only)
   (5) RSA (sign only)
   (6) RSA (encrypt only)
Your selection? 6
RSA keys may be between 1024 and 4096 bits long.
What keysize do you want? (2048) 4096
Requested keysize is 4096 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) 0
Key does not expire at all
Is this correct? (y/N) y
Really create? (y/N) y

 ...

pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
sub  4096R/2497B8B2  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
[ultimate] (2)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Command> save

Sign my new key with my old key

ana@pryan:~$ gpg --default-key E8C43461 --sign-key 6AA15948

pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
sub  4096R/2497B8B2  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: E
[ultimate] (1). Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
[ultimate] (2)  Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Really sign all user IDs? (y/N) y

pub  4096R/6AA15948  created: 2009-05-10  expires: never       usage: SC
                     trust: ultimate      validity: ultimate
 Primary key fingerprint: 7A33 ECAA 188B 96F2 7C91  7288 B346 4F89 6AA1 5948

     Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>
     Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@debian.org>

Are you sure that you want to sign this key with your
key "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>" (E8C43461)

Really sign? (y/N) y

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "Ana Beatriz Guerrero López <ana@ekaia.org>"
1024-bit DSA key, ID E8C43461, created 2004-12-06
 ...

Send new key to key server

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-key 6AA15948

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