Why is Blowfish's key size limited to 128 bits in RFC 4880?

2020-10-10 Thread Dieter Frye
What's the rationale behind not going full 448 or at least 256 like AES and Twofish? Best regards. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Why is Blowfish's key size limited to 128 bits in RFC 4880?

2020-10-10 Thread Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users
What's the rationale behind not going full 448 or at least 256 like AES and Twofish? Age. At the time Blowfish was adopted there were literally no 256-bit ciphers in the RFC2440 suite. Symmetric ciphers were all 128-bit (except arguably for 3DES, where the size is wonky[*]). The first 256-bit

Re: Why is Blowfish's key size limited to 128 bits in RFC 4880?

2020-10-10 Thread Dieter Frye
>> What's the rationale behind not going full 448 or at least 256 like >> AES and Twofish? > > Age. At the time Blowfish was adopted there were literally no 256-bit > ciphers in the RFC2440 suite. Symmetric ciphers were all 128-bit > (except arguably for 3DES, where the size is wonky[*]). The fi

Re: On Becky! Internet Mail's GnuPG Plugin

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Dieter Frye wrote: [...] > Sorry about the delay; I've been experiencing some serious connectivity > issues that are yet to be fully resolved, and sure, love talking online, > which I rarely get to do anymore. No problem and I hope you can fix your connectivity issues. > > Unfortunately I can'

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Stefan Claas wrote: > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > without access restrictions, it will be interesting to see if all > postcards will arrive ... ;-) Update. I received feedback from (not all*)

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 03:57:39p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas escribió: > Stefan Claas wrote: > > > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > > without access restrictions, it will be interesti

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día sábado, octubre 10, 2020 a las 03:57:39p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas > escribió: > > > Stefan Claas wrote: > > > > > Since I have started the thread publicity to let GnuPG users know > > > other communication forms and which can be be read everywhere, > > > without a

Show that an encrypted message was signed, without decrypting it

2020-10-10 Thread Stefan Claas
Hi Werner and all, I was reading old GnuPG threads were people were asking if it's possible to extract a signature from an encrypted message. I would like to ask, I don't know if this is already possible or if it's planned, if Alice would request from Bob that he always signs his messages and Bo

Re: Five volunteers needed (EU .... Are you sure that this is really advantageous?

2020-10-10 Thread John A. Leuenhagen via Gnupg-users
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 12:27:24AM +0200, Stefan Claas wrote: > Regarding the Internet as of today and Al Gores vision and the Internet > commerce etc. > > I always wondered why it is not possible for me and probably many other > people to not get a *static* IPv6 address additionally when you sign