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Special Forums Cybersecurity Is ccrypt AES 256 bit crypto secure enough? Post 302887083 by Neo on Wednesday 5th of February 2014 01:53:42 PM

02-05-2014

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True. You are right... those longer keys are not really for symmetric crypto. I will look more into gpg (gpg - OpenPGP encryption and signing tool man page):

Code:

neo@www:~# aptitude search gpg
p   gpgsm                                                    - GNU privacy guard - S/MIME version                                
p   gpgv                                                     - GNU privacy guard - signature verification tool                   
p   kgpg                                                     - graphical front end for GNU Privacy Guard                         
p   libcrypt-gpg-perl                                        - An Object Oriented Interface to GnuPG                             
p   libgpg-error-dev                                         - library for common error values and messages in GnuPG components (
p   libgpg-error0                                            - library for common error values and messages in GnuPG components  
p   libgpgme++2                                              - c++ wrapper library for gpgme                                     
p   libgpgme-ruby                                            - GPGME bindings for the Ruby language                              
p   libgpgme-ruby1.8                                         - GPGME bindings for the Ruby language                              
p   libgpgme-ruby1.9.1                                       - GPGME bindings for the Ruby language                              
p   libgpgme11                                               - GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy                                           
p   libgpgme11-dev                                           - GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy                                           
p   libqgpgme1                                               - library for GpgME++ integration with Qt                           
p   pgpgpg                                                   - Wrapper for using GnuPG in programs designed for PGP              
p   php-crypt-gpg                                            - PHP PEAR module for encrypting and decrypting with GnuPG          
p   python-gpgme                                             - python wrapper for the GPGME library                              
p   python-gpgme-dbg                                         - python wrapper for the GPGME library (debug extension)            
v   python2.6-gpgme                                          -                                                                   
v   python2.6-gpgme                                          -                                                                   
v   python2.6-gpgme-dbg                                      -                                                                   
v   python2.6-gpgme-dbg                                      -                                                                   
v   python2.7-gpgme                                          -                                                                   
v   python2.7-gpgme                                          -                                                                   
v   python2.7-gpgme-dbg                                      -                                                                   
v   python2.7-gpgme-dbg                                      -

Thanks!

Neo

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claws-mail-pgpinline

CLAWS-MAIL-PGPINLI(1)					    CLAWS-MAIL-PGPINLINE Manual 				     CLAWS-MAIL-PGPINLI(1)

NAME

       claws-mail-pgpinline - Handling of PGP/Inline signed and/or encrypted mails.

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the claws-mail-pgpinline plugin.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       claws-mail-pgpinline is a plugin (loadable module) for the Claws Mail mailer.

       This plugin allows decrypting mails, verifying signatures and sign or encrypt your own mails using PGP/Inline.

       It requires GnuPG and GPGME.

       Notice this method for signing or encryption is deprecated and you probably should be using PGP/MIME, but it is still provided for
       compatibility with user agents which are unable to handle the 10-year old PGP/MIME standard (being Outlook from Windows platform the most
       noticeable example).

USAGE

       Before using a plugin you must instruct Claws Mail to load it on startup.

       For this you must go "Configuration" menu on main window toolbar, open "Plugins..."  dialog, click on the "Load plugin..."  button and
       select the plugin file, named pgpinline.so, and press the "Open" button.

FILES

       /usr/lib/claws-mail/plugins/pgpinline.so
	   The loadable module for claws-mail-pgpinline.

       ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
	   Configuration file for GnuPG, read man gpg for details.

BUGS

       Please use reportbug claws-mail-pgpinline for reporting Debian bugs for this package.

       The upstream BTS can be found at http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/index.cgi.

SEE ALSO

       claws-mail(1), claws-mail-extra-plugins(1), claws-mail-pgpmime(1), gpg(1)

AUTHORS

       The Claws Mail Team <theteam@claws-mail.org>
	   Wrote the claws-mail-pgpinline plugin.

       Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Ricardo Mones

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

claws-mail-pgpinline						  September, 2008					     CLAWS-MAIL-PGPINLI(1)