On 28/08/12 01:54, No such Client - nosuchcli...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are restricting heavily the people you share your public key with,
why not simply use a symmetric algorithm, forgetting public key
cryptography completely?
Uhh. because the benefit of pubkey encryption is still there,
On 28/08/12 08:37, peter.segm...@wronghead.com wrote:
break: RNG, asymmetric and symmetric cipher, while the symmetric
has only one: symmetric cipher.
When using OpenPGP, add RNG back to the list: the passphrase is only used to
encrypt the randomly generated session key that encrypts the data.