On 14/05/14 09:47, Michael Anders wrote: > Since the well known agency from Baltimore uses its influence to have > crypto standards coast close to the limit of the brute-forceable, 128 > bit AES will be insecure not too far in the future.
Brute-forcing a 128 bits key is, as far as we know, impossible without destroying a large part of the earth in the process. https://www.gnupg.org/faq/gnupg-faq.html#brute_force Also, you're really broadening from "some things are suspect" to "all things are suspect", but let's not delve into that too deep. I might have to ask Robert how comfortable his new asbestos longjohns are. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users