On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:32:44AM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote:
On 2011-12-28 00:27, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote:
I can't tell for gpg specifically but it's not so much about
characters. It's about entropy. Natural language is redundant, and
On 2011-12-27 23:14, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
Is there a maximum size for a passphrase for symmetric encryption
in gnupg, or does a passphrase exceeding a certain size not add any
further security to the process?
Example,
The session key for AES 256 is 64 hexadecimal characters.
The
Is there a maximum size for a passphrase for symmetric encryption
in gnupg, or does a passphrase exceeding a certain size not add any
further security to the process?
Example,
The session key for AES 256 is 64 hexadecimal characters.
The approximate equivalent in brute force work is 20
There may be some errors in my reply, so if so, please notify me.
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote:
On 2011-12-27 23:14, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
The approximate equivalent in brute force work is 20 diceware
words.
[ 7776^19 2^256 7776^20 ].
A string of
On 2011-12-28 00:27, Aaron Toponce wrote:
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Jerome Baum wrote:
I can't tell for gpg specifically but it's not so much about
characters. It's about entropy. Natural language is redundant, and
diceware uses words from natural language.
Yes, but each
Jerome Baum jerome at jeromebaum.com wrote on
Tue Dec 27 23:23:50 CET 2011 :
gpg might cut off after the 64th character and drop entropy from
your passphrase. But that sounds unlikely.
That's exactly my question.
Does gnupg have a maximum string length for a passphrase, and
restrict itself to
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 07:54:05PM -0500, ved...@nym.hush.com wrote:
That's exactly my question.
Does gnupg have a maximum string length for a passphrase, and
restrict itself to the entropy contained within that length?
Not to my knowledge. OpenPGP does not specify a maximum string length
