Special for paranoids & grey_olli:

http://www.pgpru.com/novosti/2007/paroljzaschischjonpjatojjpopravkojj

Ещё один боян.

http://termorect.narod.ru/

Нашёл в интернете...
Alice wants to send a secret to Bob. Alice kills everyone on the planet except Bob, and sends the message in clear. It should be noted that although this method could potentially involve 232.5=6,000,000,000 operations this is significantly fewer than the 256 that are required to brute-force attack the simplest cipher known to ( Read more... )

Натолкнулся на довольно уместное определение мобильного телефона.

Сотовый телефон - подслушивающее (подглядывающее) устройство с возможностью записи, передачи данных на неограниченное расстояние, точного определения координат прослушиваемого. Прослушиваемый субъект обычно носит такое устройство с собой повсюду, сам заряжает в нём аккумуляторы и ( Read more... )

Recently I made a silly mistake (fortunately it doesn't affect security): I have prolonged expiration date of my primary key, but not subkey. So sender(s) weren't be able to encrypt e-mail for me although I was able to sign my messages.

Now I have published updated key (0x500B8987) at livejournal and on two key servers: pgp.net group (one of them) ( Read more... )

Tried both, still can't decide what's more reliable...

PGP Desktop became too large and it requires more memory, also why is it needed to keep it in RAM all the time while OS works?
GnuPG is better, but there are no good stable opensource GUI for it... Weird.