RSA key size restriction?

[Maxine Brandt]

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David Shaw wrote:


|> | Again, if someone generates such a key, GnuPG will work with it.  
I
|> | still don't see the need to make it easy to generate them though,
|> | especially given that if someone wanted it badly enough, they can
|> | remove the line of code that prevents it themselves.
|> |
|> Which line?


| Search for "keysize too large" in g10/keygen.c

Thanks, David. That should be good enough for those of us who want to 
generate oversize keys for some reason.

Actually, I agree with the criticism of these large keys, but I have a 
correspondent who refuses all encrypted communication with keys 
smaller than 7680 bits. Paranoia or eccentricity - I'm not sure. I 
have a large RSA v4 key created with a hacked PGP version, but I'm not 
happy with it because it has a v3 signature on the subkey, which 
doesn't seem too reglo for my taste.

Salut,
Maxine





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