PGP3.0 & ElGamal

Clay Olbon II clay.olbon at dynetics.com
Sat Nov 16 05:27:02 PST 1996


At 08:06 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
>> 
>> I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not
>> available in any form I know of.
>
>	What do you mean? 3DES ships with Stronghold, and will ship
>with C2Net's other products as well.

Yes, but I believe 3DES has an effective key length of only 112 bits.  Of
course, even this is more than sufficient for a long time to come. 

        Clay

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