Re: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?

2013-09-02 Thread Johan Wevers
On 02-09-2013 6:04, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > Compression? The symmetric ciphers seem to always have better > compression than either zlib (gzip) or zip. Ciphers don't compress, the data is compressed before encrypting because after encrypting it is not compressible anymore. > 1. Keys created

Re: Transfer subkey to other keyring

2013-09-02 Thread attila lendvai
hi Jack! i think i'm struggling with the same issue. i've done this before a couple of years ago and it worked as expected... but this time i get the same results as described before me in this thread. to the best of my knowledge the secret subkeys get exported into the file properly, but import

Re: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?

2013-09-02 Thread Martin Hvidberg
Thanks all I won't get any of my old keys back, I see that :-( I can only re-establish the secret key for two of them. One I have earlier revoked (for good reasons), and another for which I no longer remember the paraphrase. Good thing is I have learned a lot about keys. I'll soon make yet a

AES256 & AES192. (Was: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?)

2013-09-02 Thread Nicholas Cole
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: [snip] > > Paradoxically, AES256 & AES192 had > weaknesses that made them less safe than AES (AES-128) several > years back. May I humbly suggest TWOFISH or one of the > CAMELLLIA ciphers as a first choice UNTIL you determine whether >

Re: AES256 & AES192. (Was: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?)

2013-09-02 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
On 09/02/2013 06:28 PM, Nicholas Cole wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Henry Hertz Hobbit > wrote: > > [snip] > >> >> Paradoxically, AES256 & AES192 had >> weaknesses that made them less safe than AES (AES-128) several >> years back. May I humbly suggest TWOFISH or one of the >> CAMELL

Re: AES256 & AES192. (Was: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?)

2013-09-02 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> It is time for Werner, Robert, and the others to speak up. I don't know why I need to speak up. I haven't done any serious crypto work in almost a decade now. I am not an authority on these matters. At best, I can give a semi-informed perspective on things -- but that's about it. > http://www

Re: AES256 & AES192. (Was: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?)

2013-09-02 Thread Johan Wevers
On 03-09-2013 0:36, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote: > started. It is just that AES-256 is NOT necessarily twice > as secure as AES-128. That would be really strange - if you define "twice as secure" as meaning "it will take on avarage twice as long to crack the crypto", than adding one byte to the key

Re: Can I revitalise an old key-pair?

2013-09-02 Thread Kenneth Jones
That was one of the troubles with us humans and PGP. We'd be all excited about creating a new key pair and testing it and stuff, but the admonition to choose a good passphrase was too well delivered, at least for me. Reminds me of that sign above the desk "My work is so secret, even I don't know