Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal
At 08:06 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not available in any form I know of.
What do you mean? 3DES ships with Stronghold, and will ship with C2Net's other products as well.
Yes, but I believe 3DES has an effective key length of only 112 bits. Of course, even this is more than sufficient for a long time to come. Clay
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Clay Olbon II wrote:
At 08:06 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not available in any form I know of.
What do you mean? 3DES ships with Stronghold, and will ship with C2Net's other products as well.
Yes, but I believe 3DES has an effective key length of only 112 bits. Of course, even this is more than sufficient for a long time to come.
3DES can have an effective key length of 168 bits if 3 keys are used instead of two. There are no security problems that I know of from using 3 keys. Mark - -- finger -l for PGP key PGP encrypted mail prefered. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv iQEVAwUBMo332izIPc7jvyFpAQE8ZggAmtBzP2/B72Q++Ce4Yw2Iz/eBJsPf3kNq nM6BrUZArHSRgNXp4/g/DLmBrfw1cRO5X1P1sEfNd0OPo/VnjKjNEhqBea/lZlW4 0GwOnXbotHDlthz/t1POiHV2yMy7EvDelVZynuEIoqpE2/6koxJ/DJjD27t++6ka atGAXbCKgsS68JQOCzZT2r1webXIlqbouKKpSiTFDTTS2jnSiFBa3CE89U7Udbbw Fvg+sUGicxN2f9PzuE+x1PGJLaHHbqMcz1ObyJWyIljNERpgGrV6LEwIccq/k8hn 2ikFb8EvnIQXtUCtghDztr8nOLWhGUMrO2pFvV4Cr5BeSO1DWXs1qA== =fVkb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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