Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-05-27 Thread Andre Amorim
Just "blood-thing" about linguist reminds-me "language acquisition" anyways On 28 May 2011 00:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:49:58 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: >> Summary: A 3-word password (e.g., "quick brown fox") is secure against >> cracking attempts for 2,537 year

Re: A better way to think about passwords

2011-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:49:58 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Summary: A 3-word password (e.g., "quick brown fox") is secure against > cracking attempts for 2,537 years. > > http://www.baekdal.com/tips/password-security-usability A computational linguist's rebuttal to Baekdal's post: http://trochee

RE: Question regarding the migration of the pgp keyring to gpg

2011-05-27 Thread Pramod . R
Hi David, Thanks so much for your response on this. Now, when I tried decrypting a pgp encrypted file through a gpg (using the gpg --decrypt command), I'm running into this problem of "idea encryption (0) failed" even when I tried compiling one of the idea.c that I downloaded, using the comman

Re: I can't stop encryption being done with a wrong key

2011-05-27 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 05/27/2011 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I eventually found where I could disable the key both in Thunderbird and in > KMail, so all is now well. I'm glad you got it resolved! I think this is more of a demonstration that fixing this to do the Right Thing by default in gpg itself would have b

Re: I can't stop encryption being done with a wrong key

2011-05-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 27 May 2011 07:10:58 Andreas Heinlein wrote: > Am 26.05.2011 21:26, schrieb Charly Avital: > > In Thunderbird, key usage is set in 'Per Recipient rules', that is not > > the Address Book. > > > >> > Can someone please explain to me how this could be happening, and what > >> > I need to d

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-27 Thread Jerome Baum
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:09, Werner Koch wrote: > On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:04, gro...@caseyljones.net said: > > > volume. The advantage of those is that a single bit error is likely to > > only affect one file. If you archive the files before transferring > > FWIW, it is the same as with OpenPGP.

Re: GPG Problem - invalid radix64 character

2011-05-27 Thread Werner Koch
On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:04, gro...@caseyljones.net said: > volume. The advantage of those is that a single bit error is likely to > only affect one file. If you archive the files before transferring FWIW, it is the same as with OpenPGP. The used CFB mode re-syncs after soon after the bad block.