Board:   [fsxNet] Crypto Discussion
Subject: Re: Anyone using PGP/GPG in here?
From:    StackFault(21:1/172)
Date:    Sat Nov 10, 2018 09:26

 Vk>  St> I didn't know the offline mail files were encrypted, I tought it was
 Vk>  St> just a database of some sort (which is not plaintext) but could be
 Vk>  St> accessed pretty easily if you have the specifications.
 Vk>
 Vk> Well, if you're processing GPG encrypted messages, then they will be
 Vk> encrypted until you decrypt them.  If your decryption setup is built
 Vk> into an offline reader, then the decryption takes place when you read
 Vk> the message locally, so it's still encrypted at all point in transit.

Yes, this is perfectly logic, I tought you were referring the QWK files could
be encrypted as well. Being out of the business for so long, things might
have changed quite a bit. I have put myself into "forget everything you know"
so I don't make any assumptions.

With the ciphers and hashing algos being busted one after the other, I wonder
what would happen if aes256 managed to be broken, we don't have much choices
available already.

Cipher-Bloc-Chaining being deprecated now, when you setup a new system and want
to pass with flying colors, your list of available ciphers is greatly reduced.

Cheers,

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