Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Mario Castelán Castro mariocastelancas...@gmail.com wrote: I think the WoT and in general the cryptography is not widely used because few people really care about their privacity. IMHO, there's another problem, an entry barrier to the WoT. The practice of key

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

Dmitri Minaev min...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Mario Castelán Castro mariocastelancas...@gmail.com wrote: I think the WoT and in general the cryptography is not widely used because few people really care about their privacity. IMHO, there's another problem, an entry

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Mario Castelán Castro mariocastelancas...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO, there's another problem, an entry barrier to the WoT. The practice of key exchange is widespread in very close circles of geeks, Linux developers and, to a certain degree, scientists. For someone who

very short plaintexts symmetrically encrypted

have been playing around with symmetrical encryption, and noticed something potentially concerning. Here are 6 symmetrically encrypted short plaintexts: -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: passphrase sss

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:21:51AM -0600, Mario Castel�n Castro wrote: Did you count the citys in the list, they are just 11 of thoustands and thoustands around the world; it helps of course, but very little. You obviously didn't try to use the search box to find more cities. -- Bob

Re: Web of Trust itself is the problem

On 07.01.2010, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: I think the WoT and in general the cryptography is not widely used because few people really care about their privacity. I think the overall stats for people using cryptography is that low because it is or seems too complicated for them. A lot of

Re: 768-bit RSA factored

So let's hope the ECC draft makes it soon to be finished :) ... and implemented in gpg ;) Cheers, Chris. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: very short plaintexts symmetrically encrypted

2010/1/8 ved...@hush.com: At any rate, it seems disturbingly easy to distinguish between symmetrically encrypted messages having only the word 'yes' or 'no' just by 'looking' at the ciphertext. i. Don't send such short messages ii. Don't use symmetric encryption. Ben

Re: GPG4Win for OpenPGP Card 2 ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hi Stefan, gpg: Prüfung der erstellten Unterschrift ist fehlgeschlagen: Bad signature gpg: Beglaubigung fehlgeschlagen: Bad signature gpg: make_keysig_packet failed: Bad signature Schlüsselerzeugung fehlgeschlagen: Bad signature No, I don't

Import of old keys

Hallo, For a long time I have used debian sid and gnupg with three keys for different purposes. After moving to Ubuntu (OT: for multimedia reasons) I fail to use these keys with the newly created account. I have access to all the old files and directories and would like to get some help for the