Re: How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Johan Wevers
On 03-05-2021 15:39, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote: > and gave her drives a low-level format. I remember from the stone age (end 1980's begin 90's) that you could low-level format a disk with the DOS command debug by calling some BIOS routine by assembler routines. Modern harddisks don'

Re: How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Vasilev via Gnupg-users
r...@sixdemonbag.org wrote: I have dealt with a similar problem in real life, as a real problem with real people. We created a custom Linux environment, burned it to Blu-Ray, and Alice crossed the border with her Linux environment tucked into her CD player. On the other side she acquired a

Re: How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Vasilev via Gnupg-users
Ralph Seichter wrote: * Stefan Vasilev via Gnupg-users: How would you solve this task? With Alice having to rely on cryptography she can do in her head? Well, so to speak, this would be an option in the future. Some shift cipher and carrier pigeons. :-) Ha ha, but she needs to do that ove

Re: How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
I have dealt with a similar problem in real life, as a real problem with real people. We created a custom Linux environment, burned it to Blu-Ray, and Alice crossed the border with her Linux environment tucked into her CD player. On the other side she acquired a laptop, Blu-Ray drive, and USB d

Re: How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Ralph Seichter via Gnupg-users
* Stefan Vasilev via Gnupg-users: > How would you solve this task? With Alice having to rely on cryptography she can do in her head? Some shift cipher and carrier pigeons. :-) -Ralph ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnup

How would you do that ...

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Vasilev via Gnupg-users
Hi all, here is a little scenario. Alice and Bob needs to find a way to do encrypted communications globally. The task is the following: Alice needs to travel to a foreign country without any devices (laptop, smartphone etc.). At arrival she needs to communicate daily (no real time communic

Re: All my Passwords are lost

2021-05-03 Thread Ingo Klöcker
On Montag, 3. Mai 2021 02:27:12 CEST Vincent Pelletier via Gnupg-users wrote: > And on a related note: is there an RAM-only (ideally swap-disabled, no > temporary file...) decipher-edit-encipher editor out there, to avoid > having to write plain files to disk and leaving such traces ? I thought > k