See ChangeLog: Wed Aug 23 19:52:51 CEST 2000 Werner Koch

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Wed Aug 23 19:52:51 CEST 2000  Werner Koch  <wk@openit.de>
+
+        * acinclude.m4 (GNUPG_CHECK_MLOCK):  Removed that silly mkdir().
+
 Wed Jul 19 11:26:43 CEST 2000  Werner Koch  <wk@openit.de>
 
   * configure.in (mingw32): Changes to allow for mingw32msvc

PROJECTS

@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 
     * add an option to re-create a public key from a secret key; we
       can do this in trustdb.c:verify_own_keys. (special tool?)
-
+      Hmmm, we better drop the duplication of the public part and just keep
-    * rewrite --list-packets or put it into another tool.
+      the secrets in the "secring" - this has the additional that we can
+      put those secrets on a hardware token.
 
     * write a tool to extract selected keys from a file.
 

THANKS

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ James Troup		   james@nocrew.org
 Jean-loup Gailly	   gzip@prep.ai.mit.edu
 Jeff Long		   long@kestrel.cc.ukans.edu
 Jens Bachem		   bachem@rrz.uni-koeln.de
+Jeroen C. van Gelderen     jeroen@vangelderen.org
 J Horacio MG		   homega@ciberia.es
 Joachim Backes		   backes@rhrk.uni-kl.de
 John A. Martin		   jam@jamux.com

TODO

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 
-  * setmode(BINARY) is missing
+  * configure option to set EGD entropy socket name
+   
+  * handle --output /dev/null
 
   * Don't get the ultimately trusted keys from the secring but store
     it permanently in the trustdb.  This way we don't need a secring at all.

acinclude.m4

@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ define(GNUPG_CHECK_MLOCK,
                     #endif
                 ], [
                     int i;
-                    mkdir ("foo", 0);
+
                     /* glibc defines this for functions which it implements
                      * to always fail with ENOSYS.  Some functions are actually
                      * named something starting with __ and the normal name

doc/gpg.sgml

@@ -1189,6 +1189,14 @@ needed for some German keys generated with pgp 2.6.3in. You should really
 avoid using it, because OpenPGP has better mechanics to do separate signing
 and encryption keys.
 </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+<varlistentry>
+
+<term>--allow-freeform-uid</term>
+<listitem><para>
+Disable all checks on the form of the user ID while generating a new
+one.  This option should only be used in very special environments as
+it does not ensure the de-facto standard format of user IDs.
+</para></listitem></varlistentry>
 
 
 <varlistentry>

g10/ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Aug 23 19:52:51 CEST 2000  Werner Koch  <wk@openit.de>
+
+        * g10.c: New option --allow-freeform-uid. By Jeroen C. van Gelderen.
+        * keygen.c (ask_user_id): Implemented here.
+
 Fri Aug  4 14:23:05 CEST 2000  Werner Koch  <wk@openit.de>
 
   * status.c (do_get_from_fd): Ooops, we used fd instead of opt.command_fd.

g10/g10.c

@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ enum cmd_and_opt_values { aNull = 0,
     oDisableCipherAlgo,
     oDisablePubkeyAlgo,
     oAllowNonSelfsignedUID,
+    oAllowFreeformUID,
     oNoLiteral,
     oSetFilesize,
     oHonorHttpProxy,
@@ -368,6 +369,7 @@ static ARGPARSE_OPTS opts[] = {
     { oDisableCipherAlgo,  "disable-cipher-algo", 2, "@" },
     { oDisablePubkeyAlgo,  "disable-pubkey-algo", 2, "@" },
     { oAllowNonSelfsignedUID, "allow-non-selfsigned-uid", 0, "@" },
+    { oAllowFreeformUID, "allow-freeform-uid", 0, "@" },
     { oNoLiteral, "no-literal", 0, "@" },
     { oSetFilesize, "set-filesize", 20, "@" },
     { oHonorHttpProxy,"honor-http-proxy", 0, "@" },
@@ -920,6 +922,7 @@ main( int argc, char **argv )
 		disable_pubkey_algo( string_to_pubkey_algo(pargs.r.ret_str) );
 		break;
 	  case oAllowNonSelfsignedUID: opt.allow_non_selfsigned_uid = 1; break;
+	  case oAllowFreeformUID: opt.allow_freeform_uid = 1; break;
 	  case oNoLiteral: opt.no_literal = 1; break;
 	  case oSetFilesize: opt.set_filesize = pargs.r.ret_ulong; break;
 	  case oHonorHttpProxy: opt.honor_http_proxy = 1; break;

g10/keygen.c

@@ -793,7 +793,11 @@ ask_user_id( int mode )
 		aname = cpr_get("keygen.name",_("Real name: "));
 		trim_spaces(aname);
 		cpr_kill_prompt();
-		if( strpbrk( aname, "<([])>" ) )
+
+		if( opt.allow_freeform_uid )
+		    break;
+
+		if( strpbrk( aname, "<>" ) )
 		    tty_printf(_("Invalid character in name\n"));
 		else if( isdigit(*aname) )
 		    tty_printf(_("Name may not start with a digit\n"));

g10/options.h

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct {
     const char *set_policy_url;
     int use_embedded_filename;
     int allow_non_selfsigned_uid;
+    int allow_freeform_uid;
     int no_literal;
     ulong set_filesize;
     int honor_http_proxy;