On Jan 25, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Johan Wevers wrote: > Op 25-1-2011 9:50, Werner Koch schreef: > >> Another and real practical >> reason against such a long key is that it will unusable on my >> smartphone. > > What kind of smartphone do you have? Since when does GnuPG exists for > phones? I would be really interested in a Symbian version, or I would > have to wait for Meego to become adult. > >>> From past experience we know that many users will use such ridiculous >> long keys. > > Ah, the good old CKT builds. :-) > >> As of now I have only 1 8k RSA key in my keyring compared to >> 22 4k, 108 2k and 172 1k. I hope we can keep the number of 8k keys at >> bay until everyone will be using ECC. > > I have a 3k ElGamal key (reasoning: 3k is supposed to be just a bit > stronger than 128 bits which makes my secret key not the weakest point > but also not longer than that, using 4k or even larger would make the > symetric algo the weaker point), is 3k not an option for RSA?
Yes, it is. In fact, 3k is the maximum size for a RSA key on the OpenPGP smartcard. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
