Sven Radde wrote: > Imagine the session-key part of an OpenPGP message be destroyed. > Commonly, this will be far less than 1% of the actual data, but even > with 99% intact, you won't have a chance of recovering *anything* from it.
Err. What? With a 256-bit cipher, if you're missing 3 bits, there are only eight possible keys. This is not an obstacle. > With a single images.zip.gpg file, a bit flip may mean that the whole > archive is unreadable (which is the worst case... no idea what an > average case might look like). The moral of the story is not to avoid encrypting your backups, but to keep multiple copies of your backed-up data. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
