Marco Manzoni

[...] key to encrypt the message. When you want to decrypt the message, you’ll use your private key. Now let’s generate the keys. Open Terminal.app (you can find it with spotlight or in your [...]

[...] such as RSA, I send the message and the other person can decrypt that message with the private key”. Wrong. There is a big problem with this method: asymmetric encryption (in particular RSA) is [...]

[...] your personal email address (that one you entered when you created the keys). Now open your Desktop folder and you will see a .txt file containing your public key in ASCII format (the —armor flag is [...]

[...] set it as your default signature in your emails). Import a public key When you want to send a secret message to a person, you need his/her public key. Copy and paste the public key in a .txt file (for [...]

[...] to have the encrypted text ready to be sent. We have Alice and Bob: Alice wants to send a secret message to Bob using PGP. The plaintext is processed by a hashing algorithm such as MD5. The digest ( [...]

[...] decided to keep secret the process by which DES was designed. Many people suspected that the key length was reduced to make sure that NSA could just break DES, but no organization with a smaller [...]

[...] ) and type: gpg —gen-key Type: 1 In order to select the RSA algorithm. Now you can choose a key length: the minimum size is 1024 bits and the maximum size is 4096 bits. I personally suggest 2048 [...]

[...] the message was send by Alice and that it was not modified by someone. The plaintex and the encrypted hash are now concatenated into a single message. This message is now compressed using the ZIP [...]

[...] or in your application folder) and type: gpg —gen-key Type: 1 In order to select the RSA algorithm. Now you can choose a key length: the minimum size is 1024 bits and the maximum size is [...]

[...] want to send a message, I encrypt the message with the public key using some sort of public-key encryption algorithm such as RSA, I send the message and the other person can decrypt that message with [...]

[...] RSA) is very slow. You do not want to encrypt a message of thousands of words with an asymmetric encryption algorithm. So how do you use the public and private keys? This is an image I’ve created in [...]

[...] Alice wants to send a secret message to Bob using PGP. The plaintext is processed by a hashing algorithm such as MD5. The digest (this is the name of the output of a hashing function) is [...]

Hello everyone! This is my first post on my blog. As you can see from my name, I’m a non native english speaker, so forgive my mistakes and maybe co [...]