8192bit RSA keys

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 8 21:55:37 CEST 2009


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Jean-David Beyer wrote:

> Another reason is that even if increasing my key size to would increase my
> security in some sense, I do not want my GPG security to be so strong that
> the black hats would bypass it and torture the key out of me.

Depending upon the sophistication of Your adversary, brute force may be
the 'method of choice' even if You were using ROT-13.  :-D

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Wednesday 08 Jul 2009, 15:55  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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