Re: Key distribution via NFC

2014-07-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
First thought: wow, someone came up with an NFC application that I would actually accept as not obviously horrible security. Second thought: you could just keep your public key in a saved TXT and just send it to the other's phone that way. Even my unsmart phone with the 4.5cm screen can do that

Re: GPG's vulnerability to quantum cryptography

2014-07-04 Thread Johan Wevers
On 04-07-2014 15:47, David Q. wrote: > * Is there simply no general interest to address this at this time in the > cryptographic/PGP community? There exists public-key algorithms that are resistant against quantum computers, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTRUEncrypt for example, an overview c

Re: GPG's vulnerability to quantum cryptography

2014-07-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
>> But what about younger people here in their teens, 20s or 30s? What >> am I missing? (For the record: at 39 I am close to outside of David's target audience, but I'm still within it. :) ) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lis

Re: GPG's vulnerability to quantum cryptography

2014-07-04 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Most of you don't seem worried about the possibility of 4096 qubits > happening (i.e., of RSA-2048 being cracked) at all before you are > dead. Excited, maybe. Not worried. > But what about younger people here in their teens, 20s or 30s? What > am I missing? I had an aunt that I was really c

Re: Analogien um das Prinzip von PGP zu erklären

2014-07-04 Thread Daniel Krebs
Am 03.07.2014 16:16, schrieb Werner Koch: > Signing is a very different thing than encryption. It has nothing to > do > with encryption. Using the terms decryption or encryption to describe > signature creation and verification leads to confusion (it is actually > only partly true for the RSA

Re: GPG's vulnerability to quantum cryptography

2014-07-04 Thread David Q.
(I'm continuing my thread from May 2014.) I have been reading through this thread. Most of you don't seem worried about the possibility of 4096 qubits happening (i.e., of RSA-2048 being cracked) at all before you are dead. But what about younger people here in their teens, 20s or 30s? What am I

Re: Analogien um das Prinzip von PGP zu erklären

2014-07-04 Thread Burkhard Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03-Jul-14 12:50 PM, Daniel Krebs wrote: > Anregungen, Meinungen? http://www.german-privacy-fund.de/e-mails-verschlusseln-leicht-gemacht/ Burks :-) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderb

Fwd: gnupg 1.4.14 Installation Problem

2014-07-04 Thread Burhani Kara
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Re: Analogien um das Prinzip von PGP zu erklären

2014-07-04 Thread Micha Rosenbaum
On 04.07.2014 09:22, Martin Behrendt wrote: >> So are there analogies that can easily explain what signing does? > > My first try (I think someone wrote something similar before, just > slightly different context): I give you (everyone) a key, to a > (pad)lock which only I can build. And I lock my