Fwd: The GnuPR FAQ

2020-05-12 Thread vedaal via Gnupg-users
Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on Tue May 12 16:41:09 CEST 2020: >You can get by just fine in most everyday English with a vocabulary of >5,000 words. Stick to those words and you'll have an easy-to-remember >passphrase. = That's absolutely correct, Horse! Battery Staple htt

Question / sync keyrings between devices

2020-05-12 Thread fsantiago
Question, Is there anything out there, think bittorrent-sync, that allows for syncing your full keyring between devices? Would it be enough to simply use bittorrent-sync to sync your .gnupg folder? I get the —export / —import but what about automating it a lil’ bit? Something peer to peer pre

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> However, I would be interested to know which ECC cipher would you > recommend to replace RSA. "Yes". :) Back when we got these questions -- Elgamal? RSA? DSA? Help? -- we used to tell people what mattered far, far more than which algorithm they used was how much care they gave to their syst

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Johan Wevers
On 12-05-2020 17:04, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users wrote: >> Probably not. The future is elliptical-curve cryptography, which will >> bring a level of safety comparable to RSA-16384. Yes, if attacked by classical computers. > However, I would be interested to know which ECC cipher would you >

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
W dniu 12.05.2020 o 17:04, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users pisze: > In the FAQ, it is written: >> Will GnuPG ever support RSA-3072 or RSA-4096 by default? >> Probably not. The future is elliptical-curve cryptography, which will bring >> a level of safety comparable to RSA-16384. Every minute we s

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Konstantin Ryabitsev
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 11:24:57AM +0200, Johan Wevers wrote: > > For example, a 256 bit elliptic curve key has a similar strength to > > a symmetric key of 128 bits. > > Until, of course, a working quantum computer with more than a few qubits > is constructed. Don't worry, there's literally tri

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Stefan Claas
Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users wrote: > Le 12.05.20 à 11:24, Johan Wevers a écrit : > > On 12-05-2020 3:46, Pete Stephenson via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > >> For example, a 256 bit elliptic curve key has a similar strength > >> to a symmetric key of 128 bits. > > > > Until, of course, a working

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
Le 12.05.20 à 11:24, Johan Wevers a écrit : On 12-05-2020 3:46, Pete Stephenson via Gnupg-users wrote: For example, a 256 bit elliptic curve key has a similar strength to a symmetric key of 128 bits. Until, of course, a working quantum computer with more than a few qubits is constructed. The

Re: Checking multiple smart cards before asking for one

2020-05-12 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Dienstag, 12. Mai 2020 10:56:19 CEST Valentin Ochs wrote: > Hi there, > > I have two smart cards, a regular card that I plug into the builtin reader > of my laptop and a yubikey, that have two different keys on them. I store > some passwords in a file that is encrypted with both keys. > > When

Re: Fwd: The GnuPR FAQ

2020-05-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Even using only English words greater than 5 letters and unrelated to > each other, an extremely low-bound estimate, would be 77760 words. > (in reality, far greater, but let's use an example people would agree > on). This is probably not the best metric. The length of the word is irrelevant: i

Re: Checking multiple smart cards before asking for one

2020-05-12 Thread Valentin Ochs
Wiktor Kwapisiewicz [2020-05-12 14:08] wrote: > Hi Valentin, > > I believe this will work seamlessly in GnuPG 2.3. > > You can track this ticket: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4695 Hi Wiktor, thanks for the reply. That issue is indeed what initially prompted me to make a second key for the second card

Re: Checking multiple smart cards before asking for one

2020-05-12 Thread Wiktor Kwapisiewicz via Gnupg-users
Hi Valentin, I believe this will work seamlessly in GnuPG 2.3. You can track this ticket: https://dev.gnupg.org/T4695 Kind regards, Wiktor -- https://metacode.biz/@wiktor ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mail

Re: Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

2020-05-12 Thread Johan Wevers
On 12-05-2020 3:46, Pete Stephenson via Gnupg-users wrote: > For example, a 256 bit elliptic curve key has a similar strength to a > symmetric key of 128 bits. Until, of course, a working quantum computer with more than a few qubits is constructed. Then ECC is much more vulnerable than RSA or El

Re: Fwd: The GnuPR FAQ

2020-05-12 Thread LisToFacTor via Gnupg-users
On 5/11/20 10:11 PM, Robert J. Hansen - r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: This arrived in my inbox: I'm presenting it here without comment. You've advised people to use a HORRIBLE practice of using dictionary words solely for their password. I tested this theory myself back in the day, so I can 100%

Checking multiple smart cards before asking for one

2020-05-12 Thread Valentin Ochs
Hi there, I have two smart cards, a regular card that I plug into the builtin reader of my laptop and a yubikey, that have two different keys on them. I store some passwords in a file that is encrypted with both keys. When I try to access the passwords, pinentry will always ask me to insert the y