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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: The Shoctor on May 22, 2006, 01:40:16 PM

Title: PGP
Post by: The Shoctor on May 22, 2006, 01:40:16 PM

Does anyone use PGP/GnuPG for encrypting or signing e-mail?  I am just curious who else does. After reading the information that Wired put out about AT&T. I am thinking about encypting as many e-mails as I can. Not because I am paranoid, but because I am annoyed. If they really want to watch everything I say I am going to encypt it so they have to atleast work for it.  As far as I kow there is no backdoor into it and well, that would mean a bute force crack.... Well, if they want to spend of week of CPU time (if they have anything that fast) to see that I said, "Be there at 8!" then I am glad I wasted some of their time. They shouldn't be doing this anyway.

BTW Sully, what are the rules on COMCAST's bussiness connections regarding resale of bandwidth?

Title: PGP
Post by: Pride on May 22, 2006, 01:45:01 PM

I dont know anything about it... can it be done via outlook?

Title: PGP
Post by: cuzzNkev on May 22, 2006, 01:52:32 PM

I used to use PGP..it was pretty nice..just some extra steps.

Title: PGP
Post by: The Shoctor on May 22, 2006, 01:58:22 PM

http://www.pgp.com/products/desktop/home/email.html

Not what I am using, but compatible.

Title: PGP
Post by: TekieB on May 22, 2006, 05:17:27 PM

I don't...

I know too many people (one used to/still might hang out here) that can crack that stuff so quickly that it's not worth it... if there is a will there is a way

Title: Re: PGP
Post by: sully! on May 22, 2006, 05:43:17 PM

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

BTW Sully, what are the rules on COMCAST's bussiness connections regarding resale of bandwidth?

No clue, but my guess would be a big fat "Don't do it".

Title: PGP
Post by: The Shoctor on May 23, 2006, 09:10:29 AM

Tekie,
I would like to see them crack an encrypted message with a 4k key. And do it realtively quickly. If they were to brute force my passphase they would be there for quite a long time.  But my thing as I have already stated isn't about hiding things it's about wasting peoples time.  I mean I would be annoyed if I waited a week to see, "Okay, Later!" in a short ass e-mail.

Sully,
Okay, I thought the business ones might have different rules.

Title: PGP
Post by: TekieB on May 23, 2006, 10:38:05 AM

Quote from: "ShadoHawk"

Tekie,
I would like to see them crack an encrypted message with a 4k key. And do it realtively quickly. If they were to brute force my passphase they would be there for quite a long time.  But my thing as I have already stated isn't about hiding things it's about wasting peoples time.  I mean I would be annoyed if I waited a week to see, "Okay, Later!" in a short ass e-mail.

Sully,
Okay, I thought the business ones might have different rules.

 As I said, if they think i'm a terrorist or something, they will get it somehow.

I agree that it's a pain and a somewhat decent deturent (somewhat like WPA) but it can be cracked if really needed...(even if it is to see me say "I agree")