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
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
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
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:04 AM, Henry Hertz Hobbit
wrote:
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>
> 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
>
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
> 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
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
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