Hey folks, Two years ago, there was a thread on this list, in which RSA key sizes >2048 were discussed [0]. In these two years, the crypto-world has been shaken up a bit, and computers got yet a bit more powerful.
0. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2007-June/031285.html I am trying to decide whether I want to create myself a new RSA key and am looking at key lengths of 2k, 4k, and 8k. In theory, I'd like to use the 8k variant, simply because I postulate that my machines can handle it (I don't use GPG on a PDA/SmartPhone (yet)), but I don't know if this makes sense in practice. I understand RSA and I cannot imagine compatibility problems with other implementations, but I'd still like to reopen the issue and ask this list what they think about >2048bit keys, and 8192bit in particular. Thanks, -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ the unix philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. and then some more, just to be sure. spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
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