[46462] in Cypherpunks
Re: 2047 bit keys in PGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (netdog)
Thu Jan 4 10:16:35 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:06:53 -0500
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: netdog@dog.net (netdog)
>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.
>Very little security would be gained from using a key larger than 3000 bits.
>Of course, one can always argue that improved factoring methods would require
>that an RSA public key be longer than 3000 bits to have equal security to
>IDEA. However, I doubt that factoring methods will improve that much.
nobody will ever need more than 640K or RAM? i wouldn't underestimate the
ability of technology to grow at a pace that is beyond our wildest
dreams-especially with this network serving as a virtual office/lab. of
course, ymmv.
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