2048-bit keys??

Mark Terka werewolf at io.org
Sun Dec 4 16:46:45 PST 1994


On Sun, 4 Dec 1994 anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com wrote:

> just curious, how many random bytes does it take to generate these
> fuckers and can the keyservers out their handle em yet?
> 

Well, when I generated my key today, it asked for 1115 random keystrokes
and the overall generation took a good 20-25 minutes on my 486-33.

As for the keyservers, I'm not sure why they wouldn't handle them. Afterall,
I had a non-standard key before and they handled that, bak in the v 2.3a
days.

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