There's a song I really enjoy[*] with a line that always hits me as
being both beautiful and wise:
"You talk far too much for someone so unkind."
I first heard of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation in
1995. For twenty-six years I've supported the FSF and FSFE in a variet
jsmith9...@gmx.com wrote:
[...]
A private key protected by weak blowfish cipher is by no means more at risk
compared to an unencrypted key, which GnuPG has no problem with.
The difference is that you *know* an unencrypted key is lying around at
risk of compromise, and you knowingly chose
> The problem is that a private key protected by a weak cipher is still
> potentially compromised if an attacker can get any copy of the key prior
> to migrating it to a stronger cipher. In other words, if an attacker is
> able to obtain your current key blob, the attacker can still compromise
> y
jsmith9810--- via Gnupg-users wrote:
Hello all,
I have a private key protected by blowfish cipher that despite a random salt and several rounds of
RIPEMD160 iterations is still considered "weak" by GnuPG and it refuses to do anything
with it. When I try to import this key manually (--import),
Hello all,
I have a private key protected by blowfish cipher that despite a random salt
and several rounds of RIPEMD160 iterations is still considered "weak" by GnuPG
and it refuses to do anything with it. When I try to import this key manually
(--import), gpg throws a "weak encryption key" err
