-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote: > 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 I wonder how many more people are going to tell me this, even after I've demonstrated that I understand the concept (I'm pretty sure I even signed that message!).
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