On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:35, joh...@vulcan.xs4all.nl said: > Finally upgrade that 286 to DOS > 3.0? If you have a system that can't > handle 4k keys you have very specific needs. Sending a lot of messages
This misunderstanding is actually an indication of the problem. You are talking 4096 vs. 2048 while the more important case is to read the security announcements and update your gpg. Over the last two days I release 1.4.17 and 2.0.24 just to fix a simple regression introduced 15 years ago: Create an OpenPGP packet from these bytes: a3 01 5b ff. Put it into an ascii armor and sent it by mail. The MUA will lock up while trying to decrypt it. This is a naked compressed data packet, you may need to embed it into a regular encrypted packet. I wonder why the keysize triggers bikeshedding discussions in all security groups. After all the majority of us (including me) has not the education and experience to select the color (i.e. crypto math) on their own. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
