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That kind of thinking is probably applicable to consumer applications, not for security CLI tools. Anyone deciding to encrypt files with anything other than rar
by q-rews 5y ago
That kind of thinking is probably applicable to consumer applications, not for security CLI tools. Anyone deciding to encrypt files with anything other than rar/7z passwords probably wants to know how really secure the tool they’re about to choose is. But I may be wrong.
- technion 5y agoThe vast majority of GPG users weren't aware of the encryption details in use either. As recently as 2018 Redhat 7 users were shipped GnuPG 2.0, which according to [0] defaulted to CAST5. And I've met some of those users that thought they were using AES off the back of "well I used GPG so I assumed...". [0] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86305/what-is-the-default-cipher-algorithm-for-gnupg https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/86305/what-is-t...