Re: Calculating the Private Key

2014-07-01 Thread Micha Rosenbaum
On 01.07.2014 23:28, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Assuming you mean "RSA as used in GnuPG", it is not feasible with the > kinds of computers we know how to build. It will take science-fiction > level breakthroughs in either engineering, mathematics, or both, to do this. > > The integer factorization

Re: howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-01 Thread eMyListsDDg
> Am Di 01.07.2014, 09:29:57 schrieb eMyListsDDg: >> somehow i managed to send a key id to a key server that has no >> secret-key. so i would like to remove it. >> gpg --output keyrevoke.asc --gen-revoke 0x >> doesn't work since there is no secret key. >> at a loss as to how to remove/revoke t

Re: howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-01 Thread Doug Barton
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Re: RSA or DSA keylength as an anti-spam feature

2014-07-01 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi On Wednesday 2 July 2014 at 2:26:07 AM, in , Jérôme Pinguet wrote: > OpenPGP as a kind of HashCash / proof of work solution > to spam? > If this proposition makes sense, that would open the > way for a huge increase in user base! :-) Mail en

Re: RSA or DSA keylength as an anti-spam feature

2014-07-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Could this last property of bigger keys, significantly increasing CPU > time needed to send encrypted/signed messages, be used as an anti-spam > feature? Not really. If you've got a hijacked botnet of 50,000 machines, what do you care if the CPU gets pegged? You're not the machine's owner.

RSA or DSA keylength as an anti-spam feature

2014-07-01 Thread Jérôme Pinguet
Bonjour! Thanks to the recent bikeshedding, I learnt that doubling keysize on an asymetric key algorithm based on discrete logarithm or integer factorization doesn't, by far, double the resistance to bruteforcing, which in itself is seldom if ever the weak link in a secure communication scheme. I

Re: Calculating the Private Key

2014-07-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Yeah, but someone told us (pointed us at) here some time ago that > breaking RSA was NOT the same like breaking RSA... ;-) Dan Boneh has a really interesting paper showing that RSAP may not be the same as IFP, yes. But that paper exists on a very abstract plane: my math is enough that I can re

Re: Calculating the Private Key

2014-07-01 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Di 01.07.2014, 17:28:36 schrieb Robert J. Hansen: > The integer factorization problem (the math RSA is built upon) is > conjectured to be infeasible to break. Yeah, but someone told us (pointed us at) here some time ago that breaking RSA was NOT the same like breaking RSA... ;-) -- Crypto f

Re: Calculating the Private Key

2014-07-01 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Looking at the RSA algorithm. Is it possible to calculate the private > key when a message is available both encrypted and decrypted? Maybe not > with just one message, but with a thousand? Assuming you mean "RSA as used in GnuPG", it is not feasible with the kinds of computers we know how to bu

Calculating the Private Key

2014-07-01 Thread Micha Rosenbaum
Dear gnupg users, I have a question regarding a feature from mailbox.org [0]. This provider offers to encrypt every unencrypted email you receive with your public key. Thus only encrypted emails will be stored on the server. Is there any security related problem, when an attacker has both, the en

Re: howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-01 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Di 01.07.2014, 09:29:57 schrieb eMyListsDDg: > somehow i managed to send a key id to a key server that has no > secret-key. so i would like to remove it. > > gpg --output keyrevoke.asc --gen-revoke 0x > > doesn't work since there is no secret key. > > at a loss as to how to remove/revoke thi

howto revoke a key that has no secret key

2014-07-01 Thread eMyListsDDg
somehow i managed to send a key id to a key server that has no secret-key. so i would like to remove it. gpg --output keyrevoke.asc --gen-revoke 0x doesn't work since there is no secret key. at a loss as to how to remove/revoke this key ___ Gnupg-

AW: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.18 released

2014-07-01 Thread Reinhard Irmer
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Gnupg-users [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] Im Auftrag von > Werner Koch > Gesendet: Montag, 30. Juni 2014 20:37 > An: gnupg-annou...@gnupg.org; info-...@gnu.org > Betreff: [Announce] GnuPG 1.4.18 released > > Hello! Hello Werner, > We are please