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On Wednesday 24 July 2019 at 2:36:36 AM, in
, vedaal via
Gnupg-users wrote:-
> but for the default size GnuPG key of 4096,
The default key size is 2048. That is the size generated if you use
the --quick-generate-key command.
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On 7/22/2019 at 7:12 AM, "Robert J. Hansen" wrote:
>Mathematicians have come up with different ways to estimate how
>many
>primes there were under a certain value
...
>The first estimate for π(x) was "x divided by the natural
>logarithm of x".
...
>If we do that same equation for a 2048-bit
It seems kinda cheeky to find one (fixed) bug in the least secure
implementation of the program and act like that disqualifies it. All programs
have bugs. Most implementations of GPG have had some pretty bad bugs over the
years. No programs are going to be free of security flows - the
Again, Signal is touted as better than PGP.Why?Look at this problem
with signal. Looks really serious.
Signal Desktop Leaves Message Decryption Key in Plain Sight
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/signal-desktop-leaves-message-decryption-key-in-plain-sight/
I don't think PGP does
> I think that’s the point security researchers like Schneier have been
> trying to make: it is easy for all people — from grandparents who
> still think they need AOL to chipheads who can install Arch without
> watching a YouTube tutorial — to screw up encrypted email in a way
> that exposes the
I’m not so sure that it does. I think that’s the point security researchers like Schneier have been trying to make: it is easy for all people — from grandparents who still think they need AOL to chipheads who can install Arch without watching a YouTube tutorial — to screw up encrypted email in
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:46:18PM +, Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote:
>[1]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/details_on_a_ne.html
>
>� 3. Why is anyone using encrypted e-mail anymore, anyway? Reliably and
>easily encrypting e-mail is an insurmountably hard problem
ndin via Gnupg-users
Subject: Essay on PGP as it is used today
More than a bit critical, but a good read all the same. Found on HN.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
HN comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455780
-Ryan McGinnis
Jerry wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:07:32 -0400, Robert J. Hansen stated:
> >> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big
> >> and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP
> >> and told me he had been working on a database program that made
On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 07:07:32 -0400, Robert J. Hansen stated:
>> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big
>> and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP
>> and told me he had been working on a database program that made this
>> possible and
> I went to an EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) meeting and a big
> and tall guy came to me and told me that he had a way of Breaking PGP
> and told me he had been working on a database program that made this
> possible and spouted off terms I had never heard before.
Yeah, these conspiracy
On 22.07.2019 11:26, Procopius via Gnupg-users wrote:
I searched and determined the author is unknown from from what I could see.
The author is Thomas H. Ptacek, here's contact info:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
FWIW he's known for criticizing crypto that he thinks is
antin Boyandin via Gnupg-users
Subject: Essay on PGP as it is used today
More than a bit critical, but a good read all the same. Found on HN.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
HN comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455780
-Ryan McGinnis
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From Elwin in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada (visiting family)
July 22, 2019
Ryan & gnupg-users,
Concerning "Essay on PGP as it is used today"
When I went to the link it said it said,
"The PGP Problem"
I searched and determined the author is unknown from from wha
Ángel wrote:
> On 2019-07-18 at 12:13 +1000, raf wrote:
> > At work, when a client insists on email, and I (or the law)
> > insist on encryption, I provide them with instructions for
> > installing 7-zip and send them an AES-256 encrypted zip or 7z
> > file as an attachment. It's the simplest
Stefan Claas wrote:
> raf via Gnupg-users wrote:
>
> > Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> > >
> > > > * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going
> > > > away.
> > > > Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet
Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
> raf via Gnupg-users wrote:
>
> > Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> > >
> > > > * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going
> > > > away. Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated,
On 2019-07-18 at 12:13 +1000, raf wrote:
> At work, when a client insists on email, and I (or the law)
> insist on encryption, I provide them with instructions for
> installing 7-zip and send them an AES-256 encrypted zip or 7z
> file as an attachment. It's the simplest thing I could think
> of
raf via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
>
> > Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> >
> > > * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away.
> > > Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never
> > > arrives. So what do we do in the
On 07/18/2019 04:21 AM, U'll Be King of the Stars wrote:
> On 18/07/2019 05:40, Mirimir via Gnupg-users wrote:
>> When I need to share stuff among GUI-less VPS, with no Javascript
>> capable browser, I sometimes use pastebins. I encrypt with GnuPG, and
>> then base64 encode.
>
> I love pastebins.
On 18/07/2019 05:40, Mirimir via Gnupg-users wrote:
When I need to share stuff among GUI-less VPS, with no Javascript
capable browser, I sometimes use pastebins. I encrypt with GnuPG, and
then base64 encode.
I love pastebins. I think they are an excellent "first serious web app"
type of
On 07/17/2019 07:47 PM, Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Is that to send them a message or an attachment?
>
> You might look into Firefox Send -- not sure if this satisfies the legal
> requirements, but it is very robust end to end encryption.
> https://send.firefox.com/
I also like
Is that to send them a message or an attachment?
You might look into Firefox Send -- not sure if this satisfies the legal
requirements, but it is very robust end to end encryption.
https://send.firefox.com/
-Ryan McGinnis
https://bigstormpicture.com
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Stefan Claas via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Andrew Gallagher wrote:
>
> > * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away.
> > Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never arrives.
> > So what do we do in the meantime?
>
> I think the biggest problems
> - And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away.
> Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never arrives.
> So what do we do in the meantime?
I think what the author is saying is stop trying to ever think of email as a
secure form of
Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> * And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away.
> Just like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never arrives.
> So what do we do in the meantime?
I think the biggest problems is how can PGP or GnuPG users tell other users,
not
On 17 Jul 2019, at 05:05, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> But all in all? It's a good criticism.
Indeed. Backwards compatibility with the 1990s is an albatross. Anyone still
using obsolete ciphers is screwed anyway, so why encourage it?
Some nitpicking:
* Modern PGP does encrypt subjects
> More than a bit critical, but a good read all the same. Found on HN.
Although I largely share in the criticisms, I think the author made a
couple of serious mistakes.
First, RFC4880bis06 (the latest version) does a pretty good job of
bringing the crypto angle to a more modern level. There's
More than a bit critical, but a good read all the same. Found on HN.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
HN comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20455780
-Ryan McGinnis
https://bigstormpicture.com
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