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Re: Is 1024-bit PGP key enough?
actually, the IDEA key is 128 bits.
-paul
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> Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 22:16:06 -0400
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> From: "Geoffrey C. Grabow" <[email protected]>
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> At 15:38 08/01/96 PDT, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> >
> >Somebody says:
> >>> Is security provided by 1024-bit PGP key sufficient against most powerful
> >>> computers that are available today? Say if smoe organization spent 10
> >>> billions of dollars on a cracking machine, would it be possible to crack
> >>> the keys in reasonable time?
> >
> >Derek Atkins <[email protected]> responds with some useful and authoritative
> >information -- thanks.
> >
> 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.
>
> G.C.G.
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