Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I have never understood why people seem to believe that they cannot safely > store a key backup (including the passphrase if necessary) but can safely > store a revocation certificate. It comes into play more when entrusting others. If I give my lawyer a copy of my certificate and passphrase

Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Mo 18.11.2013, 17:21:22 schrieb adrelanos: > Hi, > > An article about air gapped OpenPGP keys has been written by me: > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Air_Gapped_OpenPGP_Key > > Please leave feedback or hit the edit button. > By default GPG creates one signi

Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread David Tomaschik
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Pete Stephenson wrote: > On 11/18/2013 6:21 PM, adrelanos wrote: > > Hi, > > > > An article about air gapped OpenPGP keys has been written by me: > > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Air_Gapped_OpenPGP_Key > > > > Please leave feedback or hit the edit button. Maybe it

Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
4. Are there any known issues with your "air gapped" system being the same physical hardware as your everyday system even if you use a LiveCD? The airgap networks I've seen have run in separate rooms from the regular network and use a different kind of networking hardware in order to make cr

Re: article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 11/18/2013 6:21 PM, adrelanos wrote: > Hi, > > An article about air gapped OpenPGP keys has been written by me: > https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Air_Gapped_OpenPGP_Key > > Please leave feedback or hit the edit button. Maybe it's useful for > someone. It's under public domain. > > Cheers, > adrel

Re: AES attack calculations (money and time)

2013-11-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
from time to time someone asks how secure (a)symmetric crypto really was and then our math and physics teacher Rob has his performance. No, people ask how difficult it is to brute-force crypto. That's a very narrow question and can be answered with great precision. When it comes to the fuz

article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

2013-11-18 Thread adrelanos
Hi, An article about air gapped OpenPGP keys has been written by me: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Air_Gapped_OpenPGP_Key Please leave feedback or hit the edit button. Maybe it's useful for someone. It's under public domain. Cheers, adrelanos ___ Gnupg-

Re: [tor-talk] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client

2013-11-18 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 11/18/2013 1:52 AM, Johan Wevers wrote: > Dijkstra's goal of formally prooving entire programs more complicated > than hello world seems further away than ever. Don't loose any sleep > over it, noone even tried that in practice anyway. Well, yes and no. Provably-correct software is still a ver