Thanks John: How possible is for one of this messages to be decrypted? I have read that GPG encryption has yet to be broken. Is that an outdated fact? For what I understand about brute force algorithms, in order to break one of this messages, even with a small 8 character passphrase and say a 1024 bit encryption cipher, could take quit a bit of time. I am sure the numbers I have are quite outdated due to the hardware improvement, clustering, etc. since the time I took a lecture on this subject; however, this number should fall at least on the years category, in which case the illicit love affair between x and y would most likely be over, is that not so( not about the affair )? I need to check out some info about those NSA's clusters. The "mile" word really captivated my heart.
In terms of the headers of a message. How necessary is to indicate that a particular message is encrypted? I can only suspect that hackers are the only people that benefit from this information. The only use I see is for the programmer to know when to pop up passphrase box or fetch a public key. I would also expect the actual encrypted message to be free of headers because that would identify the fact that it is encrypted or at least some kind of hint. Thanks for the explanation, who knows what I was thinking. Alvaro Zuniga Date: Today 10:28:42 am How possible is for one of this messages to be decrypted? I have read that GPG encryption has yet to be broken. Is that an outdated fact? For what I understand about brute force algorithms, in order to break one of this messages, even with a small 8 character passphrase and say a 1024 bit encryption cipher, could take quit a bit of time. I am sure the numbers I have are quite outdated due to the hardware improvement, clustering, etc. since the time I took a lecture on this subject; however, this number should fall at least on the years category, in which case the illicit love affair between x and y would most likely be over, is that not so( not about the affair )? I need to check out some info about those NSA's clusters. The "mile" word really captivated my heart. In terms of the headers of a message. How necessary is to indicate that a particular message is encrypted? I can only suspect that hackers are the only people that benefit from this information. The only use I see is for the programmer to know when to pop up passphrase box or fetch a public key. I would also expect the actual encrypted message to be free of headers because that would identify the fact that it is encrypted or at least some kind of hint. Thanks for the explanation, who knows what I was thinking. Alvaro Zuniga On Tuesday 17 June 2003 11:06 pm, will hill wrote: > On 2003.06.17 20:23 John Hebert wrote: > > I think he meant that something like Carnivore could easily pick up the > > fact that only one out of ~100 messages were encrypted by parsing the > > message headers, and then somehow note that fact, or start a brute force > > decryption of it on the square miles of the NSA's underground server > > clusters. > > That's about it. Sometimes, the fact that you have something to tell > someone is more important than what you say. A sudden burst of encrypted > messages between JD Edwards and Peoplesoft might spark Lary's interest. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
