From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I see no reason to add "features" to GnuPG that have no connection to any real-world need. Changing the largest keysize, even in expert mode, has no connection to any real-world need I've ever heard anyone articulate, and so I'm pretty hostile to the idea.
Well, I'm pretty sure if GnuPG had the limit you suggest (2048) it would be legally unusable for some purposes, due to legal guidelines, "best practices", and all that tosh. Now you can say those things are misguided, but if they make it impossible to use GnuPG they're a real-world need just as the man page is. I don't know of any of these policies that require keys longer than 4096, but I wouldn't discard the possibility, certainly not in the future.
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