Re: Calculating ciphertext sizes

2011-07-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> At any rate, the mathematics table of predicting the output of each input, > without compression or signing, would be very handy. Curious how you got > the numbers from before. AES is a 128-bit block cipher: it is incapable of producing outputs except in multiples of 128 bits (16 bytes). ECB m

Re: Calculating ciphertext sizes

2011-07-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> The reason for asking (which actually isn't realted to GnuPG) was I wanted > to know the amount of data transferred over the wire with SCP. Then this isn't a question related to encipherment: this is a protocol question. Once you start looking at the protocol layer, other things have enormous

Re: Calculating ciphertext sizes

2011-07-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 07/11/2011 04:59 PM, David Shaw wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > >> When encrypting a plaintext source, is there a way to predict the size of >> the ciphertext output? I'm sure this depends on the cipher used, as well if >> compression or hashing algos are used. > >

Re: Calculating ciphertext sizes

2011-07-11 Thread David Shaw
On Jul 11, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > When encrypting a plaintext source, is there a way to predict the size of > the ciphertext output? I'm sure this depends on the cipher used, as well if > compression or hashing algos are used. The single largest thing that affects your output is

Re: Calculating ciphertext sizes

2011-07-11 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> When encrypting a plaintext source, is there a way to predict the size of > the ciphertext output? I'm sure this depends on the cipher used, as well if > compression or hashing algos are used. The short answer is "yes," but it's hard to give a more precise answer without knowing a lot of specifi

Re: timestamp notation @gnupg.org

2011-07-11 Thread Vlad "SATtva" Miller
Jerome Baum: >> What I miss is a real use case for it. Is there someone implementing a >> general purpose time stamping service? IIRC, there used to be some 10 >> years or more ago. Still any? I don't know. > > There are a lot of general purpose time stamping services, such as > -- though that