Re: Length of passphrase beneficial?

["Wayne H. Allen" <whallen@capitalnet.com>]

At 15:38 96.07.21 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
>Erle Greer wrote:


>	I think its a poor assumption that your home won't be searched
>if you're doing something that makes you want a 2048 bit key.

    Your kidding, because someone set up PGP to a large key your assuming
their doing wrong and the guy's going to get busted. Wow. I set up a long
key myself but never have used the silly thing, that mean I'm guilty too.
(Gotta go, a black helecopter just landed in the back yard)



>  A
>thousand bits of keylength should be good enough for most things that
>don't need to stay secret more than 5-10 years.
>

    Not if he keeps the passphrase to the key availiable to all. The original
poster did mention it was to only his wife at home who was a risk. A psudo-
random alph-nummeric key of the size he claims can't be memorized so it has
to be on the h-drive or a floppy.  He may as well fess up now to the Mrs before
she publishes all cause she's in.
Wayne H.Allen
whallen@capitalnet.com
Pgp key at www.capitalnet.com/~whallen