[cryptography] OT: THE GREAT SIM HEIST

2015-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-19 Thread Jon Callas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I just realised one barrier -- language. It uses the English language, and PGP might be stronger in Europe than in the anglo world. So perhaps the wordset should be retuned to being some form of internationalised english, words that are

Re: [cryptography] PGP word list

2015-02-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:04, i...@iang.org said: I just realised one barrier -- language. It uses the English language, and PGP might be stronger in Europe than in the anglo world. Right. I recall that this has been discussed in the OpenPGP WG years ago. IIRC, the conclusion was that the