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species8350
May 1, 2012, 10:51:14 PM5/1/12
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Hi,
I would like to send encrypted mail and am trying to set up a Digital
ID.
On using the Wizard, I am having difficulty at the stage where I am
asked to specify a file to import. Can someone advise.
I also note that I have a number of certificates in Intermediate
Certificate Authorities, and Trusted Root ..., nothing in Personal,
and Other People. Can someone also explain their significance?
Thanks
Ps. Why does the mail programme only encrypt to 168 bits?
I would like to send encrypted mail and am trying to set up a Digital
ID.
On using the Wizard, I am having difficulty at the stage where I am
asked to specify a file to import. Can someone advise.
I also note that I have a number of certificates in Intermediate
Certificate Authorities, and Trusted Root ..., nothing in Personal,
and Other People. Can someone also explain their significance?
Thanks
Ps. Why does the mail programme only encrypt to 168 bits?
Bohgosity BumaskiL
Aug 19, 2013, 6:17:48 PM8/19/13
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
128 bits of symmetric encryption iz ample. A computer at four
gigahertz can count to 2^32 (32 bits) in one second. At the same
speed, it takes four billion seconds to count to 2^64, which iz only
practical with government computers (and maybe not even them, az US
government did [does?] not allow symmetric encryption of more than
56 bits). Double the number of bits again, to 128bits, and you are
doubling the amount of time needed to crack a key with brute force
- -- sixty four times. 128 bits of symmetric encryption iz ample.
It's different with asymmetric encryption. Public keys should be at
least 1024 bits long, and probably more like 2048.
There might've been a way to export a new public key pair in an
older Adobe Acrobat version (nine?). I use ThunderBird/Enigmail. It
supports several standards, and I've never used the one you are
trying to use. I might like to impress someone using Outlook Express
with my dijital signature, some day. I like ThunderBird/Enigmail,
though, because it enables cleartext signatures, which are the only
ones usable in all USENET newsgroups.
_______
http://litwyn.comyr.com/ BrewJay's Babble Bin
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Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSEpmKAAoJEPI4YIcJ+OeMRsoIAI2Pl2sKB3jM1zt3FTpLIL4R
UaXr+f0TEZ62pCUlF/H007XPHK/w1nRoLS98LodQ5lEYf2FrHY8Boq+Jv5yetkwm
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3sfB6irT0Y7lZiuhMZVFDTvBPOUemMb+lcelIX0nSz1Xf4oxi5GbYmfro7/PwQcM
oqVbv/0aQI6oLOHWcMQ/YvCj93xEZgzU6DeUB8rXNQzv9YAJb5280J/I8xkgK7g=
=ebN/
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Hash: SHA1
gigahertz can count to 2^32 (32 bits) in one second. At the same
speed, it takes four billion seconds to count to 2^64, which iz only
practical with government computers (and maybe not even them, az US
government did [does?] not allow symmetric encryption of more than
56 bits). Double the number of bits again, to 128bits, and you are
doubling the amount of time needed to crack a key with brute force
- -- sixty four times. 128 bits of symmetric encryption iz ample.
It's different with asymmetric encryption. Public keys should be at
least 1024 bits long, and probably more like 2048.
There might've been a way to export a new public key pair in an
older Adobe Acrobat version (nine?). I use ThunderBird/Enigmail. It
supports several standards, and I've never used the one you are
trying to use. I might like to impress someone using Outlook Express
with my dijital signature, some day. I like ThunderBird/Enigmail,
though, because it enables cleartext signatures, which are the only
ones usable in all USENET newsgroups.
_______
http://litwyn.comyr.com/ BrewJay's Babble Bin
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSEpmKAAoJEPI4YIcJ+OeMRsoIAI2Pl2sKB3jM1zt3FTpLIL4R
UaXr+f0TEZ62pCUlF/H007XPHK/w1nRoLS98LodQ5lEYf2FrHY8Boq+Jv5yetkwm
OBtGW91PI4n2TRG/7fAFOHl5aPMMKDtalyJ3kl8ssGB5qdE9VC3b9Xwy6tbtkIHT
535zWBZiCQig/Yt3mdd9QAdMrFHpkqw6V+UTAmcG7gn4guA87w3gParr0ehE52p3
3sfB6irT0Y7lZiuhMZVFDTvBPOUemMb+lcelIX0nSz1Xf4oxi5GbYmfro7/PwQcM
oqVbv/0aQI6oLOHWcMQ/YvCj93xEZgzU6DeUB8rXNQzv9YAJb5280J/I8xkgK7g=
=ebN/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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