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Re: Un-Documented Feature
> Questions:
>
> 1) In non-mathematical terms, if possible, what difference does this
> make in terms of security?
None mathematically. A friend of mine ([email protected]) has an
interesting thought on this. If the NSA does have any method of screwing
RSA in any way, it's probably optimized for the common key lengths for PGP.
ie: 512, 1024, etc. So he uses a 1023 bit key. That one bit less may be
unsecure for him, but the idea is still sound. Maybe a 1025 bit key would
give them less of an advantage. Even so this is all speculation. We don't
know what the NSA knows...