Create key's over 4096 bit ????

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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:

> That's true. Even considering a brute force attack, 1025 bits is in 
> average only sqrt(2) better as 1024 bits.
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so, does that mean that a 2048 bit asymmetric key is (only) this many 
times stronger than a 1024 bit key(?):

13407807929942597099574024998205846127479365820592393377723561443721\
76403007354697680187429816690342769003185818648605085375388281194656\
9946433649006084096

???   sqrt((2^2048)/(2^1024))   ???

i never studied higher math, so apologies for any confusion that i'm 
adding to things.


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