SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

[Robert J. Hansen]

On 05/03/2012 01:14 PM, Ali Lown wrote:
> Does anyone know why the limit is set at 4096 bits

The consensus of the cryptographic community is that beyond 3K keys you
really need to be switching to elliptical-curve cryptography.  A 3K RSA
or Elgamal key is roughly as difficult to break by brute-force as
AES128, and that one's so hard that nobody with two brain cells to rub
together is going to try it.

Although I am not a GnuPG developer, I have never heard anything from
the core devs which would make me think they are planning on revisiting
this limit to allow for extraordinarily large keys.