Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-18 Thread Simon Valiquette
Atom Smasher un jour écrivit: > > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Remco Post wrote: >> >> Does gnupg support elliptic curve crypto? ;-) > == > > if you're paranoid about RSA, then there's no reason to go to ECC since > the math behind it is still young and uncertain. The algorithm

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-18 Thread Robert Hübener
Andrew Berg wrote: > Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of > megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt > messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but > if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice unless a

Re: Importing backed up card generated key

2007-06-18 Thread James Davis
James Davis wrote: > I've just generated a key pair using my smartcard and asked it to make a > backup which it did. I'm doing a practice restore to see how the > procedure works and I'm a little stuck. I can import my new public key > onto my keyring but when I try to import the secret key it fail

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-18 Thread Sven Radde
Hi! Andrew Berg schrieb: > Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of > megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt > messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but > if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice u