On 11/2/06, Henry Hertz Hobbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
7-zip, like most zip programs encryption doesn't even come close
to the level of protection that you are getting with GnuPG. Even
if you are using the lowest level cipher GnuPG provides, it is a
quantum leap over the zip programs
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 09:40:21AM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
The threshold just to
break AES128 is so immense that it may as well be a brick wall;
...at the moment.
One Xbox360 runs more FLOPS than the world's fastest supercomputer of
little more than a decade ago (a fact that I still
David SMITH wrote:
...at the moment.
Welcome to the Second Law of Thermodynamics! Enjoy your stay.
By the Second Law, every time a bit of information is erased you have to
pay the entropy tax of (kT * ln 2) J. Let's assume that for each key
you try, you have to erase 1000 bits of
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 09:40 -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
Ryan Malayter wrote:
When encrypting to a *.7z file, 7-zip uses AES-256 in CBC mode, with
a passphrase-to-key function based on SHA-256. This is actually
stronger than most cipher preferences on OpenPGP keys.
This may be just my
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA224
Was Wed, 1 Nov 2006, at 20:43:19 -0800 (PST),
when Robert Eden wrote:
My tool prompts the user for a pass-phrase (twice), places some
simple restrictions on the pass-phrase (10 characters, 3 words), and
opens up a dialog box. The user
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
I was looking for a simple exe-only tool I could put on a USB disk to make it
very easy for Windows users to encrypt files with a symmetric key.
Quite a few folks suggested GPGshell. It was a good choice, but had one
problem... when it encrypts files
