Many thanks to Hal and Oskar for pointing out the mistakes in my key format; but one thing I'd like to defend is the 160-bit key size. As Hal points out, DSA keys are bigger, but they too can be hashed again to fit into 160 bits.
The text format of messages we have will allow for bigger keys if we ever need them, but I don't think we ever will. Just to give an idea of how insanely huge 160 bit keyspace is, if every man, woman, and child on earth inserted 1 million keys a day for the next 1000 years, they wouldn't even come close to using up 80-bit keyspace, and 160-bit keyspace is the square of that. Collisions simply aren't going to happen in the lifetime of the Universe. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
