2047 bit keys in PGP

Thomas Massengale thomas at inch.com
Thu Jan 4 07:14:04 PST 1996


At 3:17 PM 1/3/96, Mark M. wrote:

>I really don't see the point of using a key larger than 2048 bits.  Any larger
>key would actually be harder to factor than brute forcing the IDEA keyspace.

the world will never need more than 640K of RAM?

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