Questions tagged [pgp]
The OpenPGP encrypted data format (RFC 4880), and its implementations PGP and GnuPG.
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Secure backup GPG private key using Secret Sharing?
Is there a way to generate a backup of a GnuPG private key (without encryption) using any kind of Secret Sharing (like Shamir's Secret Sharing Scheme)? The idea is getting something that can be ...
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Is there a way to provide gpg with a raw 128/256 bit key for symmetric encryption?
Hello fellow cryptographers, I'm wanting to experiment with true random number generators, and then asked myself the question : can I pipe the output (raw bits) straight into gpg for encrypt/decrypt ? ...
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ElGamal in openPGP
Is there a reason that OpenPGP chose to use Elgamal for symmetric key exchange? Couldn't it have just used DH which is based on the same maths but is much simpler?
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Digest Signing for GPG Packages
We're currently using file type-specific signing tools (textsign, helmsign, rpmsign) for GPG packages, creating network strain by transmitting entire packages to a signing server. To optimize this, we'...
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Crypto standards
According to answer and status of PGP on RFC search, OpenPGP RFCs can be used as "technical reference for the applicable internet standard". The quote mentioned in previous sentence is a ...
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What does "gpg: RSA/AES256.CFB encrypted for" mean?
The output of command fortune | gpg -vaer <receipent-id> has a line that begins with: ...
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Kleopatra: What is the strongest and most popular cryptography standard for PGP
While setting up PGP for the first time, I am presented with various encryption standards I can use being: RSA (2048, 3072, 4096 bits) with an option for + RSA (2048, 3072, 4096 bits) DSA (2048 bits) ...
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Correct terminology for ECC in PGP
These days I'm generating some PGP keypairs, and I'm struggling to understand the correct terminology behind ECC keys. Moslty in the differences between ed25519/<...
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