What level of encryption does GPG use????

Keith Ray keith@nullify.org
Fri May 17 13:14:32 2002


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Quoting Johan Wevers <johanw@vulcan.xs4all.nl>:

> Leigh S. Jones, KR6X wrote:
>
> > 3DES was once thought to have an encryption strength of 168 bits, but=
 the
> > latest cryptographic attacks have effectively weakened the effectiven=
ess
> > of this encryption method.
>
> Well, "effectively" is somewhat overstated. I'd rather say "theoretical=
ly",
> since this attac requires more memory than one can create on this plane=
t.

Classic Meet-in-the-Middle only requires a mere 512 petabytes...

  -- Keith

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