That's what I was thinking, I just didn't know if there was another reasons.
I guess the key size is configured on the Tor node? I haven't found it anywhere in the configuration (I'm using TBB on OS X). Is it possible to increase the size of the key, if say I've got a big server running as a node? If there are nodes using different length keys, is the security relying on the node with the smallest key length? Thanks. Bernard ---- Written on my small electric gadget. Please excuse brevity and (possible) misspelling. Alexandre Guillioud <guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: >The bigger the key is, the longer (cpu cycle) it take to encrypt/decrypt ? > >Le jeudi 4 avril 2013, Bernard Tyers a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a reason 1024 bit keys, instead of something higher is not used? >> Do higher bit keys affect host performance, or network latency? >> >> >> Thanks, >> Bernard >> >> >> ---- >> Written on my small electric gadget. Please excuse brevity and (probable) >> misspelling. >> >> George Torwell <bpmcont...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> >> a second guess would be going after 1024 bit keys. >> there is also a video on youtube from a recent con about the feasibility of >> factoring them, <"fast hacks" or something like that> at the end, jacob >> applebaum asks about it and they advise him to use longer keys or elliptic >> curves crypto. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-talk mailing list >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org <javascript:;> >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> >_______________________________________________ >tor-talk mailing list >tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
