[liberationtech] Learning

Anthony Papillion anthony at cajuntechie.org
Tue Apr 16 13:03:25 PDT 2013


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Also, keep in mind that GPG can be used for file encryption too. You
could use gpg for both email and file encryption. FDE would need to be
handled by something else (like maybe TrueCrypt) but otherwise...

Anthony

On 04/16/2013 01:56 PM, Landon Hurley wrote:
> Small nitpick, but only PGP (probably a better alternative is gpg) 
> really deals with email encryption. Truecrypt is for files and FDE.
> I mean, you could attach encrypted text messages to an email, but
> then you'd need a key derivation and sharing schedule, which would
> need an out of band communication.
> 
> If anyone reads German, 
> http://www.openpgp-schulungen.de/kurzinfo/openpgp-smime/ would be
> a decent overview of the use scenarios between gpg and s/mime.
> Google translate gives a good translation as well, from what I
> glanced between them.
> 
> As for deployment, Dan Gillmore seems to feel that 
> https://we.riseup.net/debian/openpgp-best-practices gives an decent
> best practice guide.
> 
> landon
> 
> On 04/16/2013 11:50 AM, R. Jason Cronk wrote:
>> All,
> 
>> I had an acquaintance contact me wanting to learn about the 
>> various encryption technologies available to her for email 
>> encryption, document encryption, etc.  I could point her to
>> various technologies that I'm aware of (PGP, truecrypt, etc) but
>> was just wondering if anybody knew of a definitive (or at least
>> fairly comprehensive) resource I could direct her to where she
>> could go read about the advantages and disadvantages of various
>> vendor's and open source products.
> 
>> Thanks,
> 
>> *R. Jason Cronk, Esq., CIPP/US* /Privacy Engineering
>> Consultant/, *Enterprivacy Consulting Group* <enterprivacy.com>
> 
>> * phone: (828) 4RJCESQ * twitter: @privacymaverick.com * blog: 
>> http://blog.privacymaverick.com
> 
> 
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