Re: file encryption and integrity check

2006-03-10 Thread Vladimir Doisan
Yes, I did exactly the same for my encrypted backups, only I chose Twofish due to speed advantage (TW256 - 16.2 mbps vs. AES256 - 12.6 mbps). With compression enabled - encryption speed was within 0.5 mbps across all ciphers at around 12 mbps. I did switch over to public key encryption last month.

Re: file encryption and integrity check

2006-03-10 Thread Vladimir Doisan
Yes, I did exactly the same for my encrypted backups, only I chose Twofish due to speed advantage (TW256 - 16.2 mbps vs. AES256 - 12.6 mbps). With compression enabled - encryption speed was within 0.5 mbps across all ciphers at around 12 mbps. I did switch over to public key encryption last month.

Re: Uid management for IM

2006-03-10 Thread Charly Avital
Not really 2¢. More like 2M. Thanks, I didn't know about that option (from the man pages): --allow-freeform-uid Disable all checks on the form of the user ID while generating a new one. This option should only be used in very special environments as it does not e

Re: Uid management for IM

2006-03-10 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Charly Avital wrote: > Option 2 is better, IMO. > > I don't think you can create a new uid *without* an e-mail address, > unless you present it (when going through the generation's prompts) as > something that looks like an e-mail address, e.g. > [E

Re: Uid management for IM

2006-03-10 Thread Raphaël Poss
Charly Avital wrote: Option 2 is better, IMO. I don't think you can create a new uid *without* an e-mail address, unless you present it (when going through the generation's prompts) as something that looks like an e-mail address, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], of whatever you like, but consisting of tw

Re: [Announce] GnuPG does not detect injection of unsigned data

2006-03-10 Thread Jan Luehr
Hello, Am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 19:53 schrieb Werner Koch: > Summary > === > > In the aftermath of the false positive signature verfication bug > (announced 2006-02-15) more thorough testing of the fix has been done > and another vulnerability has been detected. > > This new problem affect

Re: Uid management for IM

2006-03-10 Thread Charly Avital
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Option 2 is better, IMO. I don't think you can create a new uid *without* an e-mail address, unless you present it (when going through the generation's prompts) as something that looks like an e-mail address, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], of whatever you

Uid management for IM

2006-03-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I want to add my ICQ number to my pubkey. What is the best solution? 1.create a new uid, without email address, named "ICQ myicqnumber" 2.modify an existing uid adding a comment with my icq number I'm concerned about creating an uid without an a