Key length for integer- and finite-field cryptography

[Peter Gutmann]

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David Leon Gil <coruus at gmail.com> writes:

>Take-home: If you are using AES-256, you should max out your key size in
>GnuPG.

Not quite.  The proper version is:

Take-home: If you believe in NIST's crypto numerology, you should should use
ridiculous key sizes.  For everyone else: Nothing to see here, move along.

Peter.