Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2.1] feature/7416-gnupg-so…

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Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] [review'n'merge:1.2.1] feature/7416-gnupg-socks
02/11/14 16:45, intrigeri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> feature/7416-gnupg-socks is a follow-up on the proposed branch for
> #7512, and is blocked by it. It makes GnuPG directly use the Tor SOCKS
> port for communicating with keyservers, instead of going through
> Polipo.
>
> Tested with gpg on the command-line and with Seahorse (that is not
> affected since we run it with torsocks and it doesn't use GnuPG, but
> still). An ISO built from experimental, that has this branch merged
> in, passes the torified_gnupg feature of the automated test suite.
> I don't think any other area of Tails talks to keyservers and could be
> affected, but I'd be glad if someone else spent a few minutes trying
> to find something I've missed.


Tests were good for me too.

> I'm proposing this for 1.2.1, even if this doesn't satisfy our usual
> criteria for point-release. I think it's not crazy, as the change
> brought by this branch is way smaller than those introduced in
> feature/7512-Make-GnuPG-config-closer-to-duraconf-reworked. Also, the
> advantage of merging these two branches in the same release is that
> users with GnuPG persistence enable will only have to resync' their
> gpg.conf with ours once.


I agree with this reasoning. Merged!