On 07/25/2013 08:59 AM, Manu García wrote: > Are devs taking some measures to make GPG really secure?
I am not an encryption expert, but if I were going to store a lot of stuff in the cloud, I would not use GPG or any other public (assymetric) key encryption system. I would use a simpler symmetric key, since no one other than I would need to know the key. The scheme outlined in the article is by no means new. It has been known at least 10 years and probably even more. It is of theoretical interest only, IMAO. As for the part of your post shown above, measures to make GPG really secure from what threats? Because the answer to that question really matters. I bet they cannot make it secure from my posting my private key on Facebook, for example, or from some black hat torturing my passphrase out of me, or from the FBI putting a keylogger on my machine, or even more easy, from my sending an encrypted e-mail to a friend of mine who then forwards it unencrypted to someone else. The developers of GPG cannot do anything to protect against these threats. -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key:166D840A 0C610C8B Registered Machine 1935521. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 16:20:01 up 44 days, 18:06, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 4.50, 4.72 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users