2011/3/23 Ingo Klöcker <kloec...@kde.org>: > On Tuesday 22 March 2011, Jonathan Ely wrote: >> Enigmail allows only 1024, 2048 and 4096. I have never heard of that, >> but even still I would personally choose the largest key for the time >> being till RSA becomes obsolete. Is there anything larger than 4096 >> since you mentioned values unknown to me? > > Let's see. There's 4097, 4098 and even 4099. And then there's 4100. ;-p > > IMHO all those discussions about key sizes are really pathetic. Stick > with the defaults or educate yourself by reading the appropriate > literature instead of starting one non-sensical discussion after the > other on this mailing list. It should be rather obvious by now that key > sizes above 2048 are mostly a matter of personal taste and bad > judgement. Bad judgement or best practice? Some folks must use a key with a 128 bit security level.
NIST SP 800-57: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-Part1-revised2_Mar08-2007.pdf ECRYPT2 Key Recommendations: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.13.pdf Jeff _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
