Le 12.05.20 à 19:27, Grzegorz Kulewski a écrit :
Disclaimer: I am not a cryptographer either, let's just say I am an advisor.
So, anybody, please correct me, if needed.
1. In terms of key size Curve 25519 and P-256 should have same strength: ~128
bits (== comparing with good symmetric cipher,
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Sylvain Besençon via Gnupg-users
wrote:
RJH's answer sounds like a good piece of advice, but still, at the end,
we HAVE to to choose which algorithm to use when creating new key
pairs.
No you don’t.
You can simply use `gpg --gen-key` and let GnuPG cr
> RJH's answer sounds like a good piece of advice, but still, at the end,
> we HAVE to to choose which algorithm to use when creating new key pairs.
rjh@maggie:~$ gpg --gen-key
gpg: WARNING: using experimental features from RFC4880bis!
Note: Use "gpg --full-generate-key" for a full featured key ge
Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> > RJH's answer sounds like a good piece of advice, but still, at the
> > end, we HAVE to to choose which algorithm to use when creating new
> > key pairs.
>
> rjh@maggie:~$ gpg --gen-key
> gpg: WARNING: using experimental features from RFC4880bis!
> Note: Use "gpg --ful
Le 13.05.20 à 12:18, Robert J. Hansen a écrit :
"Unless you know what you're doing and why, use the defaults." I've
been saying that for twenty years now. I keep thinking that someday
someone will actually take it seriously...
Thanks for the demonstration!
At least, I will now know what I a
Le 13.05.20 à 11:54, Damien Goutte-Gattat a écrit :
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:02:14AM +0200, Sylvain Besençon via
Gnupg-users wrote:
RJH's answer sounds like a good piece of advice, but still, at the
end, we HAVE to to choose which algorithm to use when creating new key
pairs.
No you don’t.
Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 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 constru
