[13425] in Cypherpunks
1024 limit...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 10 17:36:54 1994
Date: Tue, 10 May 94 17:30:33 EDT
From: perry@bacon.imsi.com (Perry E. Metzger)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Hmmm... This was from the newfor24.doc file -- NOT the newfor25.doc
file! -- included in the pgp25 distribution.
>- Number of bits allowed when generating keys limited to 1024, in line
> with the limits in RSAREF and BSAFE. It used to be higher, but
> folks, if you think you need a key larger than that, do some research
> into the complexity of factoring.
I'm sure patches to fix this bit of fascism will show up soon.
Perry
