Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am
My GPG Pub key:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=steyr_m&op=index&fingerprint=on
I run both... windows and linux.
I was trying to create a new key on my windows machine (the only computer I had handy at the time), but was having trouble creating a 4096-bit key with any of the windows gpg programs.
With linux, gpg seems to work a little smoother... I even have a mail client on my linux machine (clawsmail) that can encrypt/sign/decrypt/verify with my keyring within the mail client itself. I'm sure I could do pretty much the same thing with windows and outlook or something like that, but I've never tried it on windows - I prefer to use linux.
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"Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1788
"The greatest threat to the state is when the people figure out they can exist without them." - Twisted Titan
"Some Libertarians are born, the government makes the rest."
"Voting is nothing more than a slaves suggestion box, voting on a new master every few years does not make you free."
For encryption of individual files I use Cryptoforge which supports 448-bit blowfish. For my most secure files, I use a 28 character long alphanumeric upper case lower case key. The program encrypts at lightning speed.
For encryption of an entire folder/directory, I use a program called "My Lockbox."
Both of these are very easy to setup and use in WIN 7 and XP.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -Benjamin Franklin
Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. -Charles Spurgeon
think reverse high tech
http://oldcomputers.net/pics/floppy8.gif
WATER
FOOD
SHELTER ( includes fire/heat )
SECURITY
TSHTF does not mean you stop living
you just change your definition of a " good life " - Kyratshooter
i thought that when the PGP guy gave up his technology the government put a back door in it like they did with the security certificate companys, thawte and verisign. Could be wrong.
Truecrypt, eraser, dban.
With truecrypt you can do some clever stuff such as invisible archives, full disk encryption etc. There is a story about an encrypted Pc, not the best subject matter, but a young man in the UK is accused of having child porn on his PC. It has an archive on it and as far as I know the guy is still in jail for refusing to provide the pasword to the archive and the police haven't been able to crack it. The story is probably a couple years old now and the guy have been in jail almost a year by then. As I said, not the best subject. I fully expected the cops just to plant some stuff on there and get on with it.
Eraser will clean disks of readable data. Just because you deleted a file doesnot mean it cannot be forensically recovered. Eraser has several option for disk overwrite. I believe the ideal number of times to overwrite data is about 24 times to ensure it cannot be recovered. It can take a long time to do 24 writes on a whole disk.
dban. Need to check this name. It is basically a disk nuker. You can hit this app and it will trash your hard drive as fast as it can. I think you can run it silently.
Great minds discuss Ideas, Average minds discuss Events, Small minds discuss People. E.R.
Anytime I'm in doubt I go outside and give it a little shake.
Liberty Tree.
For secure file deleting I use shred. This command will give 25 passes. Here is my output for test.txt
shred -n 25 -u -v -z test.txt
shred: test.txt: pass 1/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 2/26 (000000)...
shred: test.txt: pass 3/26 (444444)...
shred: test.txt: pass 4/26 (777777)...
shred: test.txt: pass 5/26 (333333)...
shred: test.txt: pass 6/26 (492492)...
shred: test.txt: pass 7/26 (dddddd)...
shred: test.txt: pass 8/26 (cccccc)...
shred: test.txt: pass 9/26 (924924)...
shred: test.txt: pass 10/26 (ffffff)...
shred: test.txt: pass 11/26 (555555)...
shred: test.txt: pass 12/26 (111111)...
shred: test.txt: pass 13/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 14/26 (6db6db)...
shred: test.txt: pass 15/26 (aaaaaa)...
shred: test.txt: pass 16/26 (249249)...
shred: test.txt: pass 17/26 (888888)...
shred: test.txt: pass 18/26 (b6db6d)...
shred: test.txt: pass 19/26 (222222)...
shred: test.txt: pass 20/26 (db6db6)...
shred: test.txt: pass 21/26 (bbbbbb)...
shred: test.txt: pass 22/26 (999999)...
shred: test.txt: pass 23/26 (eeeeee)...
shred: test.txt: pass 24/26 (666666)...
shred: test.txt: pass 25/26 (random)...
shred: test.txt: pass 26/26 (000000)...
shred: test.txt: removing
shred: test.txt: renamed to 00000000
shred: 00000000: renamed to 0000000
shred: 0000000: renamed to 000000
shred: 000000: renamed to 00000
shred: 00000: renamed to 0000
shred: 0000: renamed to 000
shred: 000: renamed to 00
shred: 00: renamed to 0
shred: test.txt: removed
Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am
My GPG Pub key:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=steyr_m&op=index&fingerprint=on
I figured that this thread could use a bump, as encryption and computer security is more important now than ever.
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