Re: Encryption Algorithm for GnuPG?

2019-05-31 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Please don't send HTML email to this list. On 5/31/19 6:27 PM, Tony Lane wrote: > I would say chacha2020 is also a strong cipher up there with AES. As soon as you get ChaCha20 added to the OpenPGP spec, I'll start participating in discussions on this mailing list about its merits. :) > It also

Re: Encryption Algorithm for GnuPG?

2019-05-31 Thread Tony Lane
I would say chacha2020 is also a strong cipher up there with AES. The fact that AES uses lookup table with an index derived from the secret makes general implementations vulnerable to cache-timing attacks. ChaCha20 is not vulnerable to such attacks. (AES implemented through AES-NI is also not vu

Re: Is limit-card-insert-tries a working option?

2019-05-31 Thread Chip Senkbeil
Maybe my setup is like you described? I thought it was a reasonable setup, but being a gpg beginner, I'll take any advice I can get! I've got a master key that I've used to create subkeys for encryption, signing, and authentication. Here's my current setup below: ---

Re: Encryption Algorithm for GnuPG?

2019-05-31 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> What is the encryption engine for the current GnuPG. By default, AES. Other algorithms are possible but not recommended. The only other algorithms I'd recommend are Twofish and Camellia. > I know IDEA is proprietary so that can’t be used It can be used. You'd be insane to actually use it, bu

missing root certificate, SMIME spanish government

2019-05-31 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hi I am not sure that my email arrived via gmane. I received an smime signed email from a colleague. It contains a public key from https://www.sede.fnmt.gob.es/descargas/certificados-raiz-de-la-fnmt Basically the Spanish government. I installed all its root certificates in /usr/share/ca-c

Android compat

2019-05-31 Thread Tan
Hello all, I am newbie to Android native development and want to benefit Gcrypt in application. Has anyone recently compiled libgcrypt for Android recently. I saw few commands and flags on regarding the toolchain but was not really clear to me. Could anyone point me a right direction or share his/

Re: Conflict Due to Multiple Instances of Smart Card Daemon

2019-05-31 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 26 May 2019 22:11, gnupg-users@gnupg.org said: > the new design you're working on. By the way, could you describe that > in more detail? What new capabilities will it offer (or what new gpg-card supports all smartcards which are supported by scdaemon and not just the OpenPGP card. It has