does gpg cope with very large key sizes

[Sebastian Wiesinger]

* Philippe Cerfon <philcerf at googlemail.com> [2009-09-10 01:43]:
> Hi list and GnuPG developers!
> 
> 
> Let me introduce myself,... I'm Philippe Cerfon and I'm currently taking
> some crypto-lectures... including all that fancy algorithms and so on ;-)
> Out of curiosity I was starting some test series on how key creation time
> and encryption/signing time relates to key sizes.
> I soon found out that gpg puts a limit on keys at 4096 bits which is surely
> reasonable for real world but somewhat disturbing my test.

Hi,

regarding this, the Simtec Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ is
available for sale online since a few days ago. This is an USB
hardware entropy generator. Perhaps this would be something to
consider in your tests regarding quality and speed of entropy
generation.

Regards,

Sebastian

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