Author Topic: PGP (Read 1507 times)

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?

Pride · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:45:01 PM »

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

cuzzNkev · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:52:32 PM »

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

The Shoctor · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:58:22 PM »

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

Not what I am using, but compatible.

TekieB · « **Reply #4 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

sully! · « **Reply #5 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".

The Shoctor · « **Reply #6 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.

TekieB · « **Reply #7 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")

Author Topic: PGP (Read 1507 times)

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