Re: Is 1024-bit PGP key enough?

But the original author also needs to step back and understand his security needs. In particular, if you're trying to protect your information against an enemy who is willing to spend $10B to get it, they'll have a lot of options other than hiding in a back room with some cracking equipment. Would you be willing to sell them the information you're trying to protect for (say) 10% of that $10B? Would your partner? Your wife?

The idea is simple. Since it is easy to increase the size of the pgp key -- certainly easier than improving my wife -- it is not uneconomical to be a little overly paranoid over the size of my key. All it costs me is a couple of seconds of CPU time!