[openssl-users] OpenSSL vs GPG for encrypting files? Security best practices?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Interesting.  How about this for a start?

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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM openssl at foocrypt.net <openssl at foocrypt.net>
wrote:

> Hi Nick
>
> Have You tried The FooKey Method ? https://foocrypt.net/the-fookey-method
>
> Also,
>
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> https://foocrypt.net/independent-review-of-the-defence-trade-controls-act-2012-cth-call-for-information-for-submission-as-a-case-study-from-the-openssl-community
>
>
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> On 5 Nov 2018, at 10:35, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Comments
>
> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:56 PM Bear Giles <bgiles at coyotesong.com> wrote:
>
>> > I'm considering encrypting a tar archive and optionally a block file
>> system (via FUSE) using either utility
>>
>> Linux has good support for encrypted filesystems. Google LUKS.
>>
>
>
>> BTW a tar file starts with the name of the first entry. The 'magic
>> numbers' are at offset 128 or so. However a compressed tar file will start
>> with a known value since gzip, b2zip, and 7zip?, all start with their magic
>> values.
>>
>
> Does tar placing known data at a certain offset increase the probability
> that someone can perform an attack easier?  They may already know the data
> to decrypt at that offset and if the encrypted block overlaps, then the
> attack is easier.
>
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