Re: Defaults

2015-03-17 Thread René Puls
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:44:47 -0400 Robert J. Hansen wrote: > [*] As I read the tea leaves, I'm more convinced of AES256's long-term > strength than I am of AES128's. However, the idea that either one of > them is somehow 'weak' is just ludicrous. If you use AES128, don't > panic. :) I remember

Re: Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

2015-03-05 Thread René Puls
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:40:11 +0100 René Puls wrote: > > A tool that transforms an OpenPGP encrypted+signed MIME message into > > an OpenPGP-signed MIME message while retaining the original > > signature would be a really nice tool to have. > > I will post here if I manage t

Re: Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

2015-03-02 Thread René Puls
On Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:34:55 +0100 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Sun 2015-03-01 20:01:05 +0100, Werner Koch wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Mar 2015 15:32, rp...@kcore.de said: > > > >> is there a command line utility that takes a PGP/MIME encrypted > >> message (a plain RFC 2822 text file) and outputs an

Decrypting PGP/MIME on the command line

2015-03-01 Thread René Puls
Hi, is there a command line utility that takes a PGP/MIME encrypted message (a plain RFC 2822 text file) and outputs an unencrypted copy? The secret key is available and GnuPG is configured correctly. It is okay if the process is somewhat lossy; signatures or attachments do not need to be preserve

Re: Length for AES256 symmetric encryption passphrase?

2014-04-04 Thread René Puls
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:48:26 -0400 Sam Gleske wrote: > > What would be the recommended length for > > completely random characters generated, for example, by a password > > manager such as keepassx? > > > > To clarify and be more specific... if one were using the password as > the symmetric key in

Re: Signing keys on a low-entropy system

2013-11-08 Thread René Puls
Hi, On Fri, 08 Nov 2013 00:11:38 +0100 Johannes Zarl wrote: > I'm currently thinking about using a raspberry pi as a non-networked > stand- alone system for signing keys. Since I haven't heard anything > to the contrary, I'm pretty sure that entropy is relatively scarce on > the pi. The Raspberr