How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency?

Subject: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency? Good day from Singapore, [QUOTE] Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because

OpenPGP smartcard and P-256 in non expert mode

Hi! I don't understand why generating a key on a smartcard only offers Curve25519 and P-384 for ECC cryptography unless the --expert flag is used. P-384 is offered even when the hardware key doesn't support it and other curves which the hardware supports are not offered which is confusing. Why

Re: OpenPGP smartcard and P-256 in non expert mode

Hi! Please share your GnUPG version and the type of smartcard you are using with us. A 9 year old commit is not very helpful. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service. - A. Einstein signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency?

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 at 15:56, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On 11/08/2022, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users > wrote: > > Subject: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the > > secrets of the National Security Agency? > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > [QUOTE] > > >

Re: a bit off topic, how to find encrytped files (ransom attack)

>>> "JC" == Juergen Christoffel writes: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Uwe Brauer via Gnupg-users wrote: >> 1. just for the first very rough analysis what is a convenient command to >> get a list of files that have high entropy? > The first step might be to install tripwire and

Re: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency?

On 11/08/2022, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via Gnupg-users wrote: > Subject: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the > secrets of the National Security Agency? > > Good day from Singapore, > > [QUOTE] > > Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you > have

Re: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency?

Subject: How did Edward Joseph Snowden use GnuPG to uncover the secrets of the National Security Agency? Short answer: he didn't. GnuPG is one of the tools that Snowden used to uncover the secrets of the NSA. This is incorrect. According to Glenn Greenwald, he used GnuPG to communicate

Re: OpenPGP smartcard and P-256 in non expert mode

Hi! Please share your GnUPG version and the type of smartcard you are using with us. A 9 year old commit is not very helpful. I'm using gpg 2.2.36 and a OpenPGP smart card implementation we are currently developing. You're right the commit itself isn't very helpful, here are is the code

Re: OpenPGP smartcard and P-256 in non expert mode

On Donnerstag, 11. August 2022 09:39:24 CEST Sosthène Guédon | Nitrokey via Gnupg-users wrote: > I don't understand why generating a key on a smartcard only offers > Curve25519 and P-384 for ECC cryptography unless the --expert flag is used. You are asking the question the wrong way. Why should

Re: OpenPGP smartcard and P-256 in non expert mode

n 8/11/22 15:30, Ingo Klöcker wrote Only experts will be able to make an educated decision between P-256 and P-384. It's good to give "normal" people less choice by default because more choice will just confuse them even more. Even having to choose between Curve25519 and P-384 will be too much