-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alaric Dailey wrote: > considering this > > https://www.financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000551.html > > why would you bother with anything less than 2048 bit keys. > In there, it says, in part:
"If so, that means most intelligence agencies can probably already crunch most common key sizes. It still means that the capability is likely limited to intelligence agencies, which is some comfort for many of us, but not of comfort if you happen to live in a country where civil liberties are not well respected and keys and data are considered to be "on loan" to citizens - - you be the judge on that call." The trouble with that is that in such countries, using any encryption will probably call attention to you, even if you are only encrypting grocery lists and dentist's appointments, and the penalties can be severe. No point having encryption so secure that the government will find torture to be a cheaper way of getting the information it feels it needs. - -- .~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642. /V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939. /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org ^^-^^ 07:35:00 up 105 days, 1:33, 3 users, load average: 4.37, 4.31, 4.27 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDOoG5Ptu2XpovyZoRAlR6AJsEZhtUMq4M93OYMKhnX6xtLIEABwCeN41L v+nrwGNZqZahei/+vaMYbe4= =URBH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
