Re: [cryptography] blinding is in libgcrypt but NOT in gnupg?

2013-08-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:56, j...@spaz.org said: I found it in libgcrypt. I don't understand why it's not in gnupg. Becuase in GnuPG 2.x all crypto operations are done by Libgcrypt. It looks to my untrained eye that gnupg and libgcrypt had a common ancestor, but i'm not sure when that was.

[cryptography] blinding is in libgcrypt but NOT in gnupg?

2013-08-22 Thread Jake
as you all know, I have been trying to find blinding for GnuPG, and someone to help implement it as a seperate (external) operation. I was told that blinding was used in RSA decryption to repel timing attacks. But I couldn't find it anywhere in the GnuPG source code. /* We use blinding by