Wayne H. Allen wrote: | At 15:38 96.07.21 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote: | > | >Erle Greer wrote: | | | > I think its a poor assumption that your home won't be searched | >if you're doing something that makes you want a 2048 bit key. | | Your kidding, because someone set up PGP to a large key your assuming | their doing wrong and the guy's going to get busted. Wow. I set up a long | key myself but never have used the silly thing, that mean I'm guilty too. | (Gotta go, a black helecopter just landed in the back yard) No, I said 'home won't be searched.' I don't know why you assumed that I meant the LEAs would get a warrant and bust somone. If you want a 2048 bit key because it makes you feel warm and fuzzy, fine. If you're also using a random passphrase, I think its fair to assume that you have a threat in mind. | > A | >thousand bits of keylength should be good enough for most things that | >don't need to stay secret more than 5-10 years. | > | Not if he keeps the passphrase to the key availiable to all. The original | poster did mention it was to only his wife at home who was a risk. A psudo- | random alph-nummeric key of the size he claims can't be memorized so it has I disagreed with that assesment. Breaking into a home is easy. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume