RSA 4096 ridiculous?

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Werner Koch wrote:

> That is true for your desktop box.  However, for small devices like PDAs 
> a 4k RSA key is a lot of work.  The problem might not be the generation 
> or verification of a single signature but some of use have hundreds of 
> signatures on their key and checking them all will take a lot of time.
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just remember moore's law... a few years ago i got the cheapest palm-pilot 
i could find (original zire, ~$85). about a year later i again got the 
cheapest palm-pilot i could find (zire 22, ~$75). i spent $10 less, and 
the zire-22 runs circles around the original zire, most noticeably when i 
generate OPIE passwords.


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