Using gpg for french law

[John C. Place]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:52:04PM +0200, Bruno Vidal wrote:
> 	Hi I've succeded to compil and use gpg, it works fine, but now
> 	I've a problem to use it in france. The law in france allow only
> 	128bits key. So my question is: is it possible to use gpg with
> 	128bits key ?  In fact I've already made modifications to use it
> 	with 128bits, but I succeded to create small key and crypt
> 	message with it, but I'm unable to decrypt it :-( So there is a
> 	solution or not ?
> 
I am not a crypto expert but blowfish is 128bit (or less?). ELG key is a
diferent scale all together, and only it only encripts the 128 bit
blowfish session key. That bit count on a ELG key is how large the
number to be factored is.  They are not compairable to each other as far
as strength.  I don't know is this is going to help but I thought I
would throw that out there.  Also a 128bit ELG key I think would be
pretty insecure because as far as a computer is concerned that is a
small number to be factored. I am not a math guru but it seems that way
to me.

Good Luck
John

John C. Place
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