Quoting Hauke Laging <mailinglis...@hauke-laging.de>:
element) to get "security". One more wild guess: 99.9% of the
systems on which GnuPG is *actively* used do not even provide the
"equivalent"
of a 73-bits key.
This is almost certainly true. A couple of years ago Vint Cerf
estimated that somewhere between a sixth and a quarter of all desktop
PCs were infected with remote-root malware. The odds are quite high
that your desktop PC running GnuPG provides *zero* bits of security.
Sobering thought.
Really, all the obsession over key lengths does is distract us. Pick
a keylength, be done with it, and then start paying attention to more
important things...
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