Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Ludwig Hügelschäfer
Hi Holger, On 21.12.2005 12:18 Uhr, Holger Schuettel wrote: > Hi > I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than > 4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. > How is that possible? I've to try it with gnupg to generate a key over > 4096 bits a

Re: gnupg in large scale at University

2005-12-23 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:32:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would rank the initial setup effort as 2, 1, 3, 4. > To followup on myself... All your users will have to import your root certificate to stop SW from complaining about un

Re: gnupg in large scale at University

2005-12-23 Thread zvrba
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:47:56PM +0100, Thomas Widhalm wrote: > > I just got in charge of managing Linux- and Unix servers at the University of > Salzburg (Austria) and one of my first tasks is to implement a secure way of > exchanging email

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread John W. Moore III
Johan Wevers wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>might be interesting to see the year 2020 gnupg version, >>the max keylength proposed then, >>and then link back to this thread ;-) > > > Considering the direction the EU is moving, it might be very wel that > key lengts above 64 bits RSA or

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Johan Wevers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >might be interesting to see the year 2020 gnupg version, >the max keylength proposed then, >and then link back to this thread ;-) Considering the direction the EU is moving, it might be very wel that key lengts above 64 bits RSA or DH are outlawed then. :-( -- ir. J.C.

Re: Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Holger Schuettel
Holger Schuettel schrieb: > - gpg control packet > Hi > I've any questions. How can i generate a keypair with size more than > 4096 bits? I've a RSA key from my friend in my keyring with 16384 bits. > How is that possible? I've to try it with gnupg to generate a key over > 4096 bits and thats not

gnupg in large scale at University

2005-12-23 Thread Thomas Widhalm
Hi! I already sent this email twice to this mailinglist, but it didn't appear at my mailserver, so I assume it didn't reach any of you. I just got in charge of managing Linux- and Unix servers at the University of Salzburg (Austria) and one of my first tasks is to implement a secure way of exc

Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread vedaal
Johan Wevers johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl wrote on Fri Dec 23 14:52:18 CET 2005 : > Over 15 years, why would I care it's slow with current hardware with > my then low-end multicore 20 GHz CPU? :-) might be interesting to see the year 2020 gnupg version, the max keylength proposed then, and then li

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Johan Wevers
Atom Smasher wrote: >even then, how hard is it to get a group of non-geeks, who didn't grow up >with computers, to use pgp? I'm even trying to convince my girlfriend after the latest EU data retention laws (combined with remailers). >i think they're more likely to use carrier pigeons than pgp.

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Atom Smasher
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Johan Wevers wrote: Werner Koch wrote: Talking about 4k keys is in this respect useless - unless you have very special requirements and can neglect the above points. However, with such requirements you will also have the staff and money to take proper decisions and impl

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Johan Wevers
Werner Koch wrote: >Talking about 4k keys is in this respect useless - unless you have >very special requirements and can neglect the above points. However, >with such requirements you will also have the staff and money to take >proper decisions and implement new code from scratch. Not necessari

Re: Create key's over 4096 bit ????

2005-12-23 Thread Johan Wevers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snp 16k key] >after trying it for a half hour or less, >it should be out of everyone's curiosity ;-) Over 15 years, why would I care it's slow with current hardware with my then low-end multicore 20 GHz CPU? :-) -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fic