Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-22 Thread David Shaw
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Ryan Malayter wrote: On 6/19/07, Henry Hertz Hobbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: than it took me to tar it. It also takes me much less time to encrypt the tarred file than it takes to do the final bzip2 of the encrypted file. Huh? Why would you try

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Hübener
In my view, gnupg already offers too much choice. There is no real reason to have so many options. They should have given 2 to chose from - a small and fast and a large and slow (both sort of balanced, too), say a) DSA-1024 (SHA1) Elgamal-1024, cipher 3DES - fingerprint SHA1 and b) DSA-3072

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-21 Thread Robert J. Hansen
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Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-21 Thread Ryan Malayter
On 6/19/07, Henry Hertz Hobbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: than it took me to tar it. It also takes me much less time to encrypt the tarred file than it takes to do the final bzip2 of the encrypted file. Huh? Why would you try to use bzip2 AFTER encrypting? Strongly-encrypted data is not

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-20 Thread Snoken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Interoperability with PGP 8 matters too. Signatures made with RSA 4096-keys (or shorter) and SHA256 can be verified by users of PGP 8. N.B. Not any other new hashes! Please note the option: --pgp8 Snoken At 05:14 2007-06-20, you wrote: Janusz A.

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-20 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Snoken wrote: Hi, Interoperability with PGP 8 matters too. Signatures made with RSA 4096-keys (or shorter) and SHA256 can be verified by users of PGP 8. N.B. Not any other new hashes! Please note the option: --pgp8 Snoken What I was trying to do was bring a real world perspective to this

Re: RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-20 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 What I was trying to do was bring a real world perspective to this question. Are you using PGP 8? Do you know anybody who is using PGP 8? Yes and yes. I far prefer PGP 8.1 over PGP 9.0+, and I've heard comments from many other users who say

RSA 4096 ridiculous? (was RSA 1024 ridiculous)

2007-06-19 Thread Henry Hertz Hobbit
Janusz A. Urbanowicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:02:58PM -0500, Andrew Berg wrote: 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