On Friday, December 6, 2019, 09:48:54 PM PST, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a30149512/longest-encryption-ever-cracked/
"Even this giant number, with a cryptographic key 795 bits long, is just over a third of the 2048-bit encryption most computers use. "
As I recall, the first version of PGP allowed keys of up to 1024 bits.
Jim Bell