The usual PGP 2 signature problem

Werner Koch wk at isil.d.shuttle.de
Sun Jul 26 13:06:00 CEST 1998


Marco d'Itri <md at linux.it> writes:

> BTW, why the default D-H key size of PGP 5 is double than gnupg's?

Don't know.  It is believed that 1024 bits is secure enough for most 
applications.  I'll think about removing the notice "really use such
a large key size" for encryption only keys as this is not as time
consuming as signing with such a key.



Werner





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