Some people say longer keys are silly. I think they should be supported by gpg.

Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de
Tue May 22 19:34:42 CEST 2012


On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 17:50 +0200, Peter Lebbing wrote:
> Or bugs only affecting large keys are not found because so few people use it,
> and it becomes an attack vector affecting only those using large keys.
While this could happen, I'd guess it would be rather vice versa....

And eventually larger key sizes may become common (as it always happened
so far) and then we'd stumble across such problems anyway... better now,
where larger key sizes are not yet needed....


Chris.




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