Re: A safe text editor

2012-09-10 Thread Milo
on secure hardware and OS (could be that your safe text editor is a cherry on a rotting cake ;) ). (...) -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: A safe text editor

2012-09-09 Thread Milo
Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: A safe text editor

2012-09-09 Thread Milo
Peter. On 09/09/2012 08:39 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 09/09/12 13:12, Milo wrote: Also there are vim scrips allowing some level of integration with gnupg. Personally, I'd have more faith in a text editor that was written ground-up with security in mind. If you take a full-fledged editor

Re: A safe text editor

2012-09-09 Thread Milo
Hi! On 09/09/2012 09:16 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 09/09/12 21:06, Milo wrote: I'm not sure what you are trying to say/prove by polemics with things I didn't wrote. I won't speculate about your faith in editors, your threat model, and probably there is no real point for you to speculate

Re: Cross-compiling GPGME

2012-06-28 Thread Milo
4.6.3-1ubuntu5+5ubuntu1 mingw-w64 2.0.1-1 mingw-w64-dev 2.0.1-1 mingw-w64-tools 2.0.1-1 mingw32-runtime 3.15.2-0ubuntu1 (...) -- Regards, Milo

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 01:57 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 05/04/2012 04:35 PM, Milo wrote: Yes - niche, proof-of-concept, poorly analyzed ciphers. Let's talk about those widely used and considered mainstream. Those are our biggest concern. McEliece is almost as old as RSA. Generations of graduate

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 10:13 AM, Faramir wrote: El 04-05-2012 10:17, Milo escribió: Hello Robert, Hello all. ... How many petabytes are sent across the wire each day? Do you really think people will be storing all of today's traffic for twenty years, just so some analyst not even born yet

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 12:08 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 04/05/12 22:35, Milo wrote: You can't tell consumer or end-user that he can't use 256-bit, symmetric cipher for his (even!) porn stash because this is some kind of faux pas and he is iconoclast because of this. It's up to him. Why should

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 01:09 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 05/05/12 12:49, Milo wrote: 1) You are responding to citation regarding symmetric crypto with widely used key length. (...) One more time - this is not up to you or software authors to decide what's the value behind encrypted data. Even

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 02:20 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 5/5/12 4:37 AM, Milo wrote: This is futile. I'm reminding you that you are giving one example of rarely used algo (so _niche_ and _out_of_mainsteam_) to back your statement that there is good amount of them. Rarely used is not the same

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 03:13 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 5/5/12 8:57 AM, Milo wrote: Derivatives of Shor's algorithm are widely conjectured to be effective against all mainstream public-key algorithms including RSA, Diffie-Hellman and elliptic curve cryptography. I'm not considering all of them. I

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 04:26 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 5/5/12 10:17 AM, Milo wrote: (...) This improves the strength of the algorithm when using keying option 2, and _provides_ _backward_compatibility_ with DES with keying option 3. One-key 3DES *is* DES. Obviously it's not. It's for example

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
On 05/05/2012 04:17 PM, Milo wrote: (...) You are mixing two topics: Need of security margin better then provided by one of common, widely used asymmetric algorithms using 4k key I was rather thinking about 4k RSA key or security equivalent provided by one of common, widely used

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-05 Thread Milo
that key exchange is already completed before authentication with RSA starts. Hm, shouldn't authentication happen before exchanging key for symmetric part of encryption during the SSH session? Peter. -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-04 Thread Milo
and is simply _average_ smartphone) -- Kind regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: SSH Agent keys 4096 bit?

2012-05-04 Thread Milo
On 05/04/2012 05:13 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: On 05/04/2012 10:17 AM, Milo wrote: Well, many expect rise of the quantum computing during lives of most of us. This can trash most (if not all) asymmetric algorithms (Shor's algorithm) No. It can trash *some* asymmetric algorithms

Re: Using root CAs as a trusted 3rd party

2012-01-23 Thread Milo
/diginotar-damage-disclosure http://www.links.org/?p=1196 ... And many, many more examples. There were discussions about x509 and CA's credibility or ability to perform their tasks. Not much to add here I think. -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: GPA File Manager

2011-11-16 Thread Milo
discussing alternatives and - more or less - advertising proprietary software on GPL-powered project's mailing list. -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Is the OpenPGP model still useful?

2011-07-06 Thread Milo
extreme form of relativism is better to not anwser at all. I think that informative and didactic value of such response is negligible. -- Kind regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg

Re: Prosecution based on memory forensics

2011-01-14 Thread Milo
of libcs or doing workarounds). So beign probaly the easiest way it's not easy way at all. Some project are distributing userland piece of code with kernel module - perhaps this is the way to introduce your idea? -- Regards, Milo ___ Gnupg-users mailing