4096 bit keys

[Grant Olson]

On 03/22/2011 07:44 PM, Jerome Baum wrote:
> Grant Olson <kgo at grant-olson.net> writes:
>> ECC actually is up-and-running in the beta for gpg 2.1, but
>> realistically it'll be (at least) a few years before it gets mainstream
>> adoption.
> 
> You loose any interoperability as  it's not OpenPGP, right? It certainly
> isn't in the commercial PGP.

That's why I said "but
realistically it'll be (at least) a few years before it gets mainstream
adoption." ;-)

Even if the draft standard got approved today, and both gpg and pgp corp
had working production implementations, it'll be years before it gets to
the point where you can assume random users will be able to support ECC.

But if you just wanted to use it with your inner circle, be it an
eco-terrorist cell or a fantasy football league, you actually could
start using it today.

-- 
-Grant

"Look around! Can you construct some sort of rudimentary lathe?"

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