Smartcard reader and SUSE 10.1

2006-07-29 Thread Werner Dittmann
All, after having tried all howTos now I'm sort of stuck. I have read the e-mail thread of Tony Whitmore and Werner Koch - bur this also does not contains a solution. My errors are the same as Tony describes. Just to get some more information I put a error printout in the gnupg-ccid script to get

Smartcard reader and SUSE 10.1

2006-07-29 Thread Werner Dittmann
All, after having tried all howTos now I'm sort of stuck. I have read the e-mail thread of Tony Whitmore and Werner Koch - bur this also does not contains a solution. My errors are the same as Tony describes. Just to get some more information I put a error printout in the gnupg-ccid script to get

Re: Security of truncated hash functions

2006-07-29 Thread Alphax
Qed wrote: > Suppose you need a 160 bit digest. > You can choose RIPEMD160/SHA1 or a truncated version of a bigger one > (e.g.: SHA2 family). > Which solution would be safer? > Is a digest algo designed for a given length stronger than a truncated > longer one? > Since you're asking about 160-bit

Re: Release candidate for 1.4.5

2006-07-29 Thread Santiago José López Borrazás
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 El 29/07/06 11:00, Qed escribió: > Patched and successfully compiled(gcc 4.1.0, GNU/Linux i386). No problem. In my sistem, is a Debian, no problem compilation this version of GnuPG 1.4.5rc1 ;-) - -- Slds de Santiago José López Borrazás. Admin de ha

Re: Security of truncated hash functions

2006-07-29 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Qed wrote: > Which solution would be safer? Assuming an idealized hash function, they're of equal strength. If each bit of the hash algorithm is effectively random with a 50/50 distribution, then a truncated hash is just as good as a full-size hash

Security of truncated hash functions

2006-07-29 Thread Qed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Suppose you need a 160 bit digest. You can choose RIPEMD160/SHA1 or a truncated version of a bigger one (e.g.: SHA2 family). Which solution would be safer? Is a digest algo designed for a given length stronger than a truncated longer one? I googl

Re: Release candidate for 1.4.5

2006-07-29 Thread Qed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 07/28/2006 11:32 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > I just did a release candidate for 1.4.5. I'd kindly ask you to try > building it in the next days and report any build problems to this > mailing list. > Or as a diff against 1.4.4: > > ftp://ftp.gnu