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Generate ssh host key windows 10. This document describes a mechanism for securely transferring OpenPGP secret key material between two devices.The devices must be able to communicate on a local network, and at least one of the devices must be able to scan a QR-Code displayed by the other.These requirements are typically fulfilled in a scenario where key material should be transferred from a desktop machine to a phone or vice versa.

This mechanism relies on two techniques: First, a QR-Code is used for out-of-band communication of authentication and network discovery information.The actual connection then relies on TLS-PSK for mutually authenticated, forward-secure transport encryption.

Jan 20, 2020 OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely. It uses encryption to ensure that your messages can be read only by the people you send them to, others can send you messages that only you can read, and these messages can be digitally signed so the people getting them are sure who sent them. OpenKeychain is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption.

Session Setup

• The OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages, signatures, and certificates for exchanging public keys. Beginning in 1997, the OpenPGP Working Group was formed in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to define this standard that had formerly been a.
• OpenKeychain helps you communicate more privately and securely. It uses encryption to ensure that your messages can be read only by the people you send them to, others can send you messages that only you can read, and these messages can be digitally signed so the people getting them are sure who sent them. OpenKeychain is based on the well established OpenPGP standard making encryption.

A secure session between two devices is set up as follows:

1. One device generates a preshared key, then opens a TCP port to listen for a single incoming TLS-PSK session.This device is the 'server' device.
2. While in the listening state, the server device displays a QR code that encodes the necessary data to connect to it (see below).
3. Another device scans the QR code, then establishes a TLS-PSK connection to the server device.This device is the 'client' device.

Connection Details

The choice of port the server device listens on is left to the implementation, it is RECOMMENDED to use an automatically assigned one.The connection MUST be secured with the TLS-PSK protocol.It MUST also use one of the PSK-authenticated Diffie-Hellman ciphersuites (TLS_DHE_PSK_* or TLS_ECDHE_PSK_*).The preshared key consists of 128 bits of random data, which MUST be obtained from a CSPRNG.For compatibility, the client SHOULD use the identity hint provided by the server during the TLS handshake as their client identity, or empty string if none was provided.

The connection details displayed in the QR-Code are encoded as a URI, as such:

uri = 'OPENPGP+SKT://' hex-psk '@' address ':' porthex-psk = 32HEXDIGaddress = IPv4address / '[' IPv6address ']'port = *DIGIT

The IPv4address and IPv6address grammars are defined as in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2For efficient encoding, all letters (and hexadecimal numbers) in the URI SHOULD be uppercase.

Transmitting Data

The only data that may be sent through an SKT session are ASCII armored secret key blocks, terminated by two newlines.Both the client and server device are allowed to send data first; the device that first sends data becomes the /active/ device of the session, the other becomes the /passive/ one.The active device may send further key blocks after the first one, the passive device MUST NOT send any.The session SHOULD be kept open by the passive device, until dismissed by the user.Note that the race condition in this behavior is not an issue in practice, since data sent by the then-active device is triggered directly by user input (see below).

This way of handling sessions enables two distinct user flows:

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• Establish a session, then wait for user input to select keys to send. When keys are received, switch to list of received keys and allow user to import.
• Ask for user input before the connection is established, then send keys immediately after session has been established.

The former user flow yields an (arguably) better user experience: Establishing a session first not only makes it more transparent to the user how the transfer mechanism works, but also moves most modes of failure to a point in time /before/ the user selects their keys to send.It also makes expectations more clear in the scenario where the passive device is the server device, since scanning a QR code is typically perceived as an action that receives data, rather than sends.An implementation that follows the former approach is automatically compatible with the second.It is RECOMMENDED that implementations take the first approach, unless implementation constraints prescribe the second.

Security Considerations

• transfer is secure, still: designed for usability and compatibility
• only TLS_DHE_* or TLS_ECDHE_*
• doesn't work (by definition) on airgapped devices

OpenKeychain is a free and open-sourcemobile app for the Android operating system that provides strong, user-based encryption which is compatible with the OpenPGP standard. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify signatures for text, emails, and files. The app allows the user to store the public keys of other users with whom they interact, and to encrypt files such that only a specified user can decrypt them. In the same manner, if a file is received from another user and its public keys are saved, the receiver can verify the authenticity of that file and decrypt it if necessary.

K-9 Mail Support[edit]

Together with K-9 Mail, it supports end-to-end encrypted emails via the OpenPGP INLINE and PGP/MIME formats. The developers of OpenKeychain and K-9 Mail are trying to change the way user interfaces for email encryption are designed. They propose to remove the ability to create encrypted-only emails^[2] and hide the case of signed-only emails.^[3] Instead, they focus on end-to-end security that provides confidentiality and authenticity by always encrypting and signing emails together.

Reception[edit]

OpenKeychain is listed on the official OpenPGP homepage^[4] and the well-known developer collective Guardian Project recommends it instead of APG to encrypt emails.^[5]TechRepublic published an article about it and conclude that 'OpenKeychain happens to be one of the easiest encryption tools available for Android (that also happens to best follow OpenPGP standards).'^[6] The publisher Heise reviewed it in their c't Android magazine 2016 and discussed OpenKeychain's backup mechanism.^[7] The academic community uses OpenKeychain for experimental evaluations: It has been used as an example where cryptographic operations could be executed in a Trusted Execution Environment.^[8] Furthermore, modern alternatives for public key fingerprints have been implemented by other researchers.^[9] In 2016, the German Federal Office for Information Security published a study about OpenPGP on Android and evaluated OpenKeychain's functionality.^[10] OpenKeychain has been adapted to work with smartcards and NFC rings resulting in a usability study published on Ubicomp 2017.^[11]

Funding[edit]

The OpenKeychain developers participated in 3 Google Summer of Code programs with a total of 6 successful students.^[12][13][14] In 2015, one of the main developers got a one-year funding to improve the OpenPGP support in K-9 Mail paid by the Open Technology Fund.^[15]

History[edit]

OpenKeychain has been created as a fork of Android Privacy Guard (APG) in March 2012. Between December 2010 and October 2013 no new version of APG was released. Thus, OpenKeychain has been started with the intention of picking up the development to improve the user interface and API. A first version 2.0 has been released in January 2013. After three years without updates, APG merged back security fixes from OpenKeychain and some months later rebased an entire new version on OpenKeychain’s source code. However, this process stopped in March 2014, while the OpenKeychain developers continued to regularly release new versions. A number of vulnerabilities found by Cure53^[16] have been fixed in OpenKeychain.^[17] These are still not fixed in APG since its last release in March 2014. Since K-9 Mail version 5.200, APG is no longer supported as a cryptography provider.^[18]

References[edit]

1. ^'Releases · open-keychain/open-keychain · GitHub'. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
2. ^'OpenPGP Considerations, Part II: Encrypted-Only Mails'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
3. ^'OpenPGP Considerations, Part I: Signed-Only Mails'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
4. ^'Official OpenPGP Homepage'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
5. ^'How To: Lockdown Your Mobile E-Mail'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
6. ^'Let OpenKeychain help handle your encryption'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
7. ^Mansmann, Urs; Bleich, Holger; Kossel, Axel (2016). 'Mit PGP verschlüsselt mailen'. c't Android 2016. 1: 50–51.
8. ^Rubinov, Konstantin; Rosculete, Lucia; Mitra, Tulika; Roychoudhury, Abhik (2016). 'Automated Partitioning of Android Applications for Trusted Execution Environments'. Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering: 923–934. doi:10.1145/2884781.2884817. ISBN978-1-4503-3900-1.
9. ^Dechand, Sergej; Schürmann, Dominik; Busse, Karoline; Acar, Yasemin; Fahl, Sascha; Smith, Matthew (2016). 'An Empirical Study of Textual Key-Fingerprint Representations'. 25th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 16): 193–208. ISBN978-1-931971-32-4.
10. ^'BSI Study: Nutzung von OpenPGP auf Android'(PDF). Retrieved 13 Feb 2017.
11. ^Schürmann, Dominik; Dechand, Sergej; Lars, Wolf (2017). 'OpenKeychain: An Architecture for Cryptography with Smart Cards and NFC Rings on Android'. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1 (3): 99:1-99:24. doi:10.1145/3130964.
12. ^'GSoC Archive 2014'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
13. ^'GSoC Archive 2015'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
14. ^'GSoC Archive 2016'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
15. ^'Bringing OpenKeychain Support to K-9 Mail'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
16. ^'Cure53 Security Audit'(PDF). Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
17. ^'OpenKeychain Wiki: Cure53 Security Audit'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.
18. ^'Why APG is no longer supported'. Retrieved 11 Feb 2017.

External links[edit]

• OpenKeychain on Google Play
• OpenKeychain Android package at the F-Droid repository

Openkeychain Generate Pgp Public Keys