4096 bit keys

Jerome Baum jerome at jeromebaum.com
Wed Mar 23 01:39:29 CET 2011


Grant Olson <kgo at grant-olson.net> writes:

> 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." ;-)

Right,  and everything  you wrote  below.  I was  just re-enforcing  the
strong  suggestion that  people not  use it.  Thing about  some innocent
average  Joe (while  I put  big trust  in Alice  and Bob,  I am  not too
confident in  Joe) reading  the archives, fetching  the gpg  beta (where
necessary switching on expert mode) in  an attempt to use ECC because it
sounds cool to use.

Might be that my level of confidence  in Joe is a bit screwed, but then,
pink elephants!

-- 
PGP: A0E4 B2D4 94E6 20EE 85BA E45B 63E4 2BD8 C58C 753A
PGP: 2C23 EBFF DF1A 840D 2351 F5F5 F25B A03F 2152 36DA
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