Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread sben1783
Hi all, maybe this question is completely stupid and only shows I didn't understand anything about encryption, but anyway I'm really curious: I want to store some of my private files encrypted on my NAS. Until now, I'm using --symmetric for encryption with a (think so) strong password that

Re: Craft public key so that private key equals given string (my password)?

2015-01-02 Thread sben1783
On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 17:14:22 +0100, Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com wrote: [...] What feature are you asking for? It seems to me it doesn't need a feature, doesn't need explicit support. You write a copy of the key to the same directory as where you store the encrypted files. You write

Re: Is it safe to rename file.gpg to `md5sum file`?

2012-12-04 Thread sben1783
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:40:22 +0200, yyy y...@yyy.id.lv wrote: There isn't enough entropy in a filename for an MD5 checksum to give much in the way of secrecy. It seems that MD5 checksum is computed from file contents, not name. Yes, I meant to use the MD5 checksum of the original file, not