Unofficial Release

Perry E. Metzger perry at imsi.com
Wed Jun 22 05:55:14 PDT 1994



dcosenza at netcom.com says:
> I'm pleased to announce the release of an unofficial version of PGP v2.6ui
> that allows for key generation up to 8176 bits,

Way overkill. Remember that 2000 is not just twice as hard as 1000 --
even breakthroughs that improved factoring speed by factors of
thousands couldn't break 2000 bit keys any century soon, if ever. I'd
worry more about my key management -- before putting in even the
effort to crack a 1500 bit key they are likely to just listen in on
the emmissions from your keyboard and monitor.

Perry







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