-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Well,
I'm really sorry to have set up such a conversation :o) As I said earlier I'm not quite good at crypto-things, all I wanted to do was to protect my private key easily in case of HDD error. And all I wanted to do with this little tool was to share it with you. If you can explain to such a nooby-noob like me what matters, I'll try to do my best not to make you loose your time ;o) Mindiell, Le 18/12/2013 17:53, Peter Lebbing a écrit : > On 16/12/13 23:41, Doug Barton wrote: >> but one argument against what you're suggesting is that it's only >> as secure as the encryption used in step 1 of the hybrid >> approach. > > If only everything in cryptoland was "only as secure as 3DES"... > >> The ability to apply SSS to the entire secret would be quite >> valuable > > I don't see why. If this is because you avoid "insecurities in > symmetric crypto", I just don't buy it. Otherwise, please explain. > >> although your concern about entropy use is something that should >> be addressed explicitly. > > And how do you propose to do that? You can't conjure up good > quality entropy. And if you don't trust symmetric crypto, you can't > use that to create an almost-random stream either. > > Peter. > - -- Mindiell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlKyCscACgkQUrT9WwBwY7zakQD/YTei8nEPmIL+aiPrF+lVqJPP POvkULr4DoDGA+bV63cA/2rUxaY8epxpdtbQtT44zEJ6fL6cwO3Go4jtRPy2LSNu =i3nj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
