RSA 1024 ridiculous / RSA 8192 sublime, and, possible with gnupg.

Atom Smasher atom at smasher.org
Mon Jun 18 06:23:21 CEST 2007


On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, David Shaw wrote:

> The defaults in GnuPG are chosen to be basically sane for the 
> overwhelming majority of users.  People who are recompiling GnuPG need 
> to understand the implications of the change they are making and be 
> aware they're throwing away that safety net.
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maybe the above text, or something like it, should be included in the code 
as a comment just above the lines that get changed to increase the key 
size...

/* edit the line below to shoot yourself in the foot */


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