RSA 1024 ridiculous

[Andrew Berg]

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Atom Smasher wrote:
> gpg does support RSA-2048/SHA-256 (or even RSA-4096/SHA-512) which
>  is what i've been using for a while now. i'll sign this email with
>  RSA-2048/SHA-256 (my default on this key) just to show what it
> looks like. it's a big signature block, but not ridiculous and on a
>  reasonably powerful computer it's hardly a noticeable delay to
> work with such keys.
Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of
megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt
messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but
if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice unless a
gov't agency wants that data.
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