Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-02 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
Hi all, hope you all had a Happy New Year and that your are all healthy! I am currently in the mood to discuss things here and there publicity and regarding GnuPG and the OpenPGP ecosystem I was wondering about the following. I assume the following: Werner is globally known as the author of GnuP

Precompiled Windows-Binaries with Large-Secmem-Support

2021-01-02 Thread karel-v_g--- via Gnupg-users
Hello! I know there are and have been fierce discussions about the useful length of RSA-Keys. I don't want to dive deeper into that, and I hope this special question has not been discussed recently: The generation of large RSA-Keys is extremely well hidden for normal users, it requires batch-mod

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
> I assume the following: Werner is globally known as the author of > GnuPG and it is generally accepted that GnuPG is a defacto security > standard globally besides S/MIME when it comes for example to private > email communications. No. OpenPGP is; GnuPG is just one implementation of the OpenPGP

Re: Precompiled Windows-Binaries with Large-Secmem-Support

2021-01-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
> I know there are and have been fierce discussions about the useful > length of RSA-Keys. I don't want to dive deeper into that, and I hope > this special question has not been discussed recently: If you're going to propose a change like that, you need to make a case for it. * Who currently is b

Re: Plan B - Who carries the torch?

2021-01-02 Thread Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 10:56 PM Robert J. Hansen wrote: > > in their twenties so that it can be assumed, when in 10 years Google > > and IBM have Quantum Computers, which make our classic encryption > > like > > ECC probably useless that then people may have a problem. > > Quantum computing has b