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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Sappaloth on June 11, 2013, 10:07 am

Title: PGP is still secure
Post by: Sappaloth on June 11, 2013, 10:07 am
against the rumors about NSA or who ever might be able to crack PGP, Edward Snowden,  the NSA/PRISM whistleblower, used PGP to get in contact with The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald:

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https://secure.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glenn-greenwald_n_3416978.html


*****************CLEARNET********************

so in my opinion this is the evidence that PGP is still secure and can be used without fear
Title: Re: PGP is still secure
Post by: Jack N Hoff on June 11, 2013, 10:12 am
Yeah...  The highest bit RSA encryption cracked to date has been 768.  Of course PGP is secure. ::)
Title: Re: PGP is still secure
Post by: Sappaloth on June 11, 2013, 10:25 am
I never felt insecure using PGP, posted it to calm down the tin-foil-hat faction
Title: Re: PGP is still secure
Post by: lokiju on June 11, 2013, 11:10 pm
Always use the max numbers of PGP to create the largest cypher. Always use a long password that can't be found in a dictionary. It will probably something else than the PGP getting broken that gets you, IOW social 'engineering', or software on your computer or records of info on your computer.
I think that the actual PGP code, when it's used with the 'best practices' is probably pretty safe for a while yet.
I wouldn't deal with somebody where my address was involved who didn't use it, if the guy is that uninformed or lazy he's probably making other mistakes too.