Re: Password length paranoia

2006-02-07 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:14:29PM +0100, Ludwig H?gelsch?fer wrote: > Hi, > > On 07.02.2006 20:05 Uhr, Oskar L. wrote: > > > This is of course only true if the attacker knows it is exactly 15 > > characters long. If not, then it should be calculated like this: 95^1 + > > 95^2 + 95^3 + ... + 95^1

Re: how can i sign a complete keyring

2006-02-07 Thread Neil Williams
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 1:11 pm, Holger Schuettel wrote: > Hi > i've many keys from a keysigning-party in my extra pubring. and now > i'll sign the complete keyring. it's possible ? There are keysigning tools that can do this - in association with something like gpg-agent that caches your pas

Re: Password length paranoia

2006-02-07 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
Hi, On 07.02.2006 20:05 Uhr, Oskar L. wrote: > This is of course only true if the attacker knows it is exactly 15 > characters long. If not, then it should be calculated like this: 95^1 + > 95^2 + 95^3 + ... + 95^15. Right, this gives exactly 95^16 - 1. This is not a dramatic improvement compare

Re: Password length paranoia

2006-02-07 Thread Oskar L.
"Gabriele Alberti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keeping in mind my password can be composed with all 95 writeable ascii > chars, > using for example a 15 chars password gives me a "password space" of > 95^15, > that is 463291230159753366058349609375 passwords..*much* smaller than the > 256 > bit

Re: Password length paranoia

2006-02-07 Thread Roscoe
(I know. We already have lots of threads about the net on password length). Heres my two cents, from someone who has zero security/cryptographic background (: Bruteforcing 256bit keys is on a level of hardness that pretty much renders it impossible. So I wouldn't really bother trying to make a p

Re: Cross compile Error

2006-02-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:14:59 +1300, Paul Blacquiere said: > Attempting to cross compile libgcrypt results in an error in build cipher in > the > test directory, You should tell us a little bit more what you are trying to do. > Hacking the Makefile and adding -lpgp-error and -Lwhere_ever_you_hav

how can i sign a complete keyring

2006-02-07 Thread Holger Schuettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi i've many keys from a keysigning-party in my extra pubring. and now i'll sign the complete keyring. it's possible ? thanks for help please forget my horrible english :-D - --

Password length paranoia

2006-02-07 Thread Gabriele Alberti
Hello, I am not a crypto expert; i have this paranoia since some time though.. If i use _symmetric_ cyphers (lets say a 256 bit) how long my password has to be? Keeping in mind my password can be composed with all 95 writeable ascii chars, using for example a 15 chars password gives me a "passwor

Re: gpg on cron task

2006-02-07 Thread Anders Zachrison
* enediel gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060206 16:57]: > #!/bin/bash > cd /tmp/backup && /bin/echo apassword | /usr/bin/gpg -se --passphrase-fd 0 > --logger-fd 1 -r [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/backup/backup20060206100521 >> > /tmp/debug3.txt > Executing it from a cron task I obtained in /tmp/debug3.