Re: Is 1024-bit PGP key enough?

["Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>]

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Geoffrey C. Grabow wrote:

> Also, remember that although the PGP key is 1024 bits, it generates a much
> smaller IDEA key with 56 bits (I think... anyone?).  The 56 bit key is
> vunerable to that $1 mil mystery machine that the NSA may or may not have.

Nope.  The IDEA key is 128 bits long and is probably much harder to break than
a 3000-bit RSA modulus.  Of course, the comparison is really useless, since
nobody knows how advanced the NSA's factoring capabilities are.

- -- Mark

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