-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Atom Smasher wrote: > gpg does support RSA-2048/SHA-256 (or even RSA-4096/SHA-512) which > is what i've been using for a while now. i'll sign this email with > RSA-2048/SHA-256 (my default on this key) just to show what it > looks like. it's a big signature block, but not ridiculous and on a > reasonably powerful computer it's hardly a noticeable delay to > work with such keys. Try signing/encrypting files that are tens, hundreds, or thousands of megabytes in size. Sure, your average machine can sign/encrypt messages that don't even fill a cluster without breaking a sweat, but if the sensitive data is large, RSA-4096 isn't a good choice unless a gov't agency wants that data. - -- Windows NT 5.1.2600.2180 | Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 | Enigmail 0.95.1 | GPG 1.4.7 Key ID: 0x60A78FCB - available on major keyservers and upon request Fingerprint: 4A84 CAE2 A0D3 2AEB 71F6 07FD F88E 0340 60A7 8FCB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRnV3UviOA0Bgp4/LAQN7hgf/buVG0w8ddbzysqDJT/AA5tfFnmEbotzS y+26YnXoGn1TgghyCL1h2GC4UXirFGWj50Ql5TuuJBR2xvt8/StRe1ZVYOKaHTs4 pytDLMyi4/K93uNdavnIt5NijYFmrJhFLTSm6/d3l+eEZl/d4jkovJc/YqjvsFOf 73lHUDbBDzvACjPi7maU4StCNgbybQ114Tm9mgtDwIzqtSkDODkV4kUtmVVFypnf Tu4haS8KOOepsYTIGSxxhrTJOgI7E/iLDq/9dMUFYaH8XKpb2pJnHTUkExGYZdKm mbopiCM8xKOalPrNaiCnkH0HbqOyNjdX8VwWe4CoGoj82UeJ99aCqQ== =nEp3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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