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)
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 to be on the h-drive or a floppy. He may as well fess up now to the Mrs before she publishes all cause she's in. Wayne H.Allen whallen@capitalnet.com Pgp key at www.capitalnet.com/~whallen