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Comment gpg (Score 4, Informative) 210

by mrflash818 (#48122413) Attached to: Snowden's Tough Advice For Guarding Privacy

gpg, when you can.

To encrypt, but have the encrypted output be encoded as text (so can be put copy/paste into an email)
gpg --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 --armor example.txt

(gpg will then ask for a passphrase, make it long, as random as possible, upper and lower case, a punctuation, and a number)

TO DECRYPT
gpg example.txt.gpg

Steve Gibson has a very cool Internet resource for helping people learn about password strength: https://www.grc.com/haystack.h...

Per the haystack page:

Example passphrase = search space size

64characters of hex = 4.13 x 10^99

63characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol = 4.93 x 10^117

62characters of hex, plus adding a punctuation symbol, plus adding an upper case letter = 3.79 x 10^126

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward
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Each year disclosed has a checked box next to this statement: "Reported financial interests or affiliations are unrelated to assigned or prospective duties, and no conflicts appear to exist."

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Submitted by Advocatus Diaboli
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Submission + - Flash IDE will integrate with open source, cross-platform Haxe/OpenFL platform

Submitted by lars_doucet
lars_doucet writes: Flash CC now has an SDK for creating custom project file formats; this lets you use the Flash IDE to prepare and publish content for (not-the-flash-player) compile targets.

Among these new platforms is OpenFL, a fully open-source re-implementation of the Flash API that exports to Javascript and C++ (no Flash Player!), among other targets:
http://www.openfl.org/blog/201...

When Adobe demoed the custom project feature at Adobe MAX the other night, they brought out Joshua Granick (lead maintainer of OpenFL) to show off a custom OpenFL project format that lets you make Flash Art in Flash CC, then compile it out to Flash, HTML5, and native C++ (desktop+mobile) targets.

Maybe Adobe heard us after all?

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