1024 limit...

Perry E. Metzger perry at bacon.imsi.com
Tue May 10 14:30:49 PDT 1994


Hmmm... This was from the newfor24.doc file -- NOT the newfor25.doc
file! -- included in the pgp25 distribution.

>- Number of bits allowed when generating keys limited to 1024, in line
>  with the limits in RSAREF and BSAFE.  It used to be higher, but
>  folks, if you think you need a key larger than that, do some research
>  into the complexity of factoring.

I'm sure patches to fix this bit of fascism will show up soon.

Perry






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