Timeline for PGP file size limit for encryption
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| Feb 27, 2021 at 11:13 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes♦ | There are several encryption modes that PGP can use; you'd have to specify which one you are using for us to indicate the maximum size. However, a good program should not "hang" even if you exceeded that limit. It would either have to 1. exit early 2. crash or 3. keep going (in the order of preference). This is more likely a limit within the program; for those kind of questions Super User is a better place. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 9:06 | comment | added | Ozwaldo | I agree I’ll certainly have to think differently and go for another option. But whatever happens I’ll still be interested in know about PGP limitations :) thanks for the link btw. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 8:58 | comment | added | kelalaka | Truecrypt? That is very old and AFAIK nobody uses that. Bugs/exploits always can be found the point is how fast they are patched. Use Veracrypt like this way | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 8:54 | comment | added | Ozwaldo | It’s not that I don’t trust AES actually but rather the way a software would use it to encrypt, the way it’s implemented. For example Truecrypt could be known by some for having a valid exploit (there’s always a debate about this for years or even a backdoor and no one will ever know unless some kind of Wikileaks happens again. I was thinking mixing symmetric and asymmetric would be relevant if I need to encrypt twice. | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 8:42 | comment | added | kelalaka | AES then ChaCha20? | |
| Feb 27, 2021 at 8:18 | history | asked | Ozwaldo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |