Re: Question about symmetric AES cipher in GnuPG

2019-10-30 Thread Brian Minton
On 10/27/19 3:25 PM, Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote: > gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 hw.txt gives me a file > size of 87 Bytes. > > Doing the same with openssl, for example: > > openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -in hw.txt -out hw.enc > > results in 32 Bytes. > > Can you please, or

Re: Should gpg try to connect to TCP/993?

2019-10-30 Thread Jay Sulzberger
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Werner Koch wrote: On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:23, Jay Sulzberger said: Is the following correct: When I use gpg to just encrypt or decrypt a file already on my computer/OS's file system, then gpg does not open any formal channels of communication going outside my

Re: How to improve our GUIs (was: We have GOT TO make things simpler)

2019-10-30 Thread Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users
I might be missing something really obvious here but... what is this trying to protect against?  It's not protecting against interception in transit, since the message already transits the internet either in cleartext or encrypted via TLS that your email service provider can definitely read.  So