symmetric vs. asymmetric in group use

2012-08-28 Thread peter . segment
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,

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric in group use

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Lebbing
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.