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@debacle @wiktor Negative. I cover that in the post. AGE only does encryption, kinda like Minisign only does signatures, and neither are as well integrated into the desktop as PGP, so GPG/PGP still has its use cases until other things gain wider adoption and integration.

Marcus Adams 3h ago

Voting is Your POWER 6h ago

Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize.

Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.”

The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable.

https://bsky.app/profile/moreperfectunion.bsky.social/post/3mj5khm64fk2b

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Apple is closing down the first of its US stores to unionize. Apple says that because of the collective bargaining agreement with these workers, they "couldn’t offer to transfer them to nearby locations.” The union is outraged, and exploring options to hold Apple accountable. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/towson-town-center-apple-store-closing-AZ2PAMPQLZBTFBQVMP724REUTE/

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Marcus Adams 3h ago

Slashdot

3h ago

CPUID Site Hijacked To Serve Malware Instead of HWMonitor Downloads https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/04/11/012218/cpuid-site-hijacked-to-serve-malware-instead-of-hwmonitor-downloads?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

CPUID Site Hijacked To Serve Malware Instead of HWMonitor Downloads - Slashdot

Attackers briefly hijacked part of CPUID's backend and swapped legitimate download links on its site with malware-laced ones. "The issue hit tools like HWMonitor and CPU-Z, with users on Reddit and elsewhere starting to notice something wasn't right when installers tripped antivirus alerts or showed...

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Marcus Adams 3h ago

@upofadown And yes, the CPU has hardware accelerated AES instruction sets available, and listed in /proc/cpuinfo.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/8000-series/amd-ryzen-9-8945hs.html

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Marcus Adams 4h ago

If you read this in the first few minutes of it being posted; I made a couple of edits to clarify a few things, such as the type of GPG public key I used, and a few other things.

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Marcus Adams 4h ago

@upofadown I finished writing everything down and have posted it here. GPG, as far as I can tell, doesn't explicitly tell you what mode it's using. All I ever see it say is "AES256", though I believe it defaults to CFB these days. I'm not a cryptographer though, so you can probably glean more information than I just by looking at my setup and results.

Link: https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/age-vs-gpg-pgp-encryption

AGE vs. GPG (PGP) Encryption

Benchmarking AGE vs GPG. Is it time to move on from the long trusted GPG utility?

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Marcus Adams 4h ago

I've finished my testing of #AGE vs. #GPG #encryption and published the results here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/p/age-vs-gpg-pgp-encryption

@wiktor You asked to be kept abreast, here's the post.

#Privacy #Security

AGE vs. GPG (PGP) Encryption

Benchmarking AGE vs GPG. Is it time to move on from the long trusted GPG utility?

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Marcus Adams 9h ago

Apparently SequoiaPGP, at least the version I have from the Debian repos, does not support symmetric encryption without the use of a public key, and I can't find any mention of that functionality on their website, so it won't be included in my testing. Anyway, here's a couple of charts.

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Marcus Adams 10h ago

It's Friday so I finally got time to sit down and do some of these benchmarks for comparing #GPG and #AGE for #encryption speed. Here's the results so far on an uncompressed .tar file, and an already compressed .tar.zst file. Gonna try to add SequoiaPGP to the list, if I can figure out how to do symmetric/password encryption with it.

Marcus Adams 1d ago

Kevin Beaumont 1d ago

lol of the day - noticed I’m quoted in this article, but I never spoke to the publication and the quotes are made up. They use GenAI during article creation and just made up what I thought 🤣 https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/hacker-siphons-700k-from-u-k-energy-firm-in-payment-redirect

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