any way to use gpg(openpgp) with Argon2

Tobias Mueller muelli at cryptobitch.de
Wed Jun 20 23:39:08 CEST 2018


Hi,

On Wed, 2018-06-20 at 19:23 +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> Passphrases can be used to protect
> a private key but that is questionable because if you box is already
> compromised the passphrase does not help much.
That depends on your attacker, of course.
You might still get some value out of your passphrase (and the way it's
been mangled) against an attacker that is capable of getting hold of
your data (and perform offline attacks) but not fully compromising your
box.

Cheers,
  Tobi



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