On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:02:58PM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: > -----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.
Erm... when you use OpenPGP, or really any other modern crypto protocol, you don't put actual plaintext through RSA, RSA operates only on a hash or random session key for symmetric cipher.y =alx -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: 0x46399138 od zwracania uwagi na detale są lekarze, adwokaci, programiści i zegarmistrze -- Czerski _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users