SSH Agent keys >4096 bit?

Faramir faramir.cl at gmail.com
Sun May 6 05:51:59 CEST 2012


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El 05-05-2012 7:46, Milo escribió:
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>> You also indicate yourself where this goes askew: RSA 8k is
>> immensely more CPU intensive than AES256 v AES128.
> 
> If you can't afford this "immense" expense - don't use 8k RSA.

   But if you send a signed message, using RSA 8k, then you force your
recipient to use it. GPG choses the symmetric algo and hash algo based
on the recipient's preferences, but it can't chose they asymmetric algo.

    Best Regards
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