[46461] in Cypherpunks
Re: 2047 bit keys in PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Massengale)
Thu Jan 4 10:08:04 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:02:38 -0500
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: thomas@inch.com (Thomas Massengale)
At 3:17 PM 1/3/96, Mark M. wrote:
>I really don't see the point of using a key larger than 2048 bits. Any larger
>key would actually be harder to factor than brute forcing the IDEA keyspace.
the world will never need more than 640K of RAM?
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