On 05/03/2012 01:14 PM, Ali Lown wrote: > Does anyone know why the limit is set at 4096 bits
The consensus of the cryptographic community is that beyond 3K keys you really need to be switching to elliptical-curve cryptography. A 3K RSA or Elgamal key is roughly as difficult to break by brute-force as AES128, and that one's so hard that nobody with two brain cells to rub together is going to try it. Although I am not a GnuPG developer, I have never heard anything from the core devs which would make me think they are planning on revisiting this limit to allow for extraordinarily large keys. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
