On 23-07-2012 3:16, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
Far more likely is a situation where you just don't meet your goals.
For instance, if you encrypt data once with a DES key and then encrypt
it again with a different DES key, you might think this would be 'two
layers' of crypto. In reality, there
On 7/23/2012 3:19 AM, Johan Wevers wrote:
That would be true if DES was a group, which it is not. That's why 3DES
is more secure than single DES.
D'oh. I don't know offhand which cipher I was thinking of (it's 3:30am
and I'm about to hit the sack), but you're right, clearly I could not be
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:52, jer...@budts.be said:
--enable-ssh-support option and the gpgkey2ssh script.
You don't need gpgkey2ssh - it is a relict form the early days.
gpg-agent supports the ssh-agent protocol for 7 years now.
Is it somehow possible to 'automatically' use my GPG subkey for
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012, at 21:16, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
The real concern here isn't making the overall system weaker: it's
fooling yourself into thinking you've made the system stronger, when in
reality you probably haven't.
I don't want to make it really stronger. Just less usable for the
A different method I'd like to throw in for consideration is using a very strong
random password generated by KeePass as the password to unlock your OpenPGP
private key.
A password with a lot of randomness is comparable to a symmetric encryption
key when fed to GnuPG. GnuPG will still throw in
On 21/07/12 18:34, MFPA wrote:
Iff is a widely used and recognised shorthand which means if and only
if.
Widely used and recognised, but possibly only in certain professions.
Wikipedia, for example, lists it under mathematical jargon. Computer
scientists will know it as well. But it might not
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012, at 16:25, Peter Lebbing wrote:
A different method I'd like to throw in for consideration is using a very
strong
random password generated by KeePass as the password to unlock your
OpenPGP
private key.
Yes, that sounds a lot better than what I had in mind. It's also a
