At 19:52 1/3/96 -0500, Rick Busdiecker wrote:
Another point to realize is that PGP uses a combination of ciphers. When encrypting, the RSA key is only used to encrypt an IDEA key. That IDEA key is used to encrypt your message. Somewhere between 2048 and 4096, you're making the RSA key stronger (harder to brute force) than the IDEA key. At that point, the extra time that you're using for super-big RSA keys is totally wasted.
To nitpick: Getting the RSA key will give you ALL the IDEA keys. That is probably worth 200-10000 times the effort. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA