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Increase Key Size
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With the computationable capabilities of NSA and such measured in acreable and
fast GPU being used in today pcs for password breaking can we please increase
the max size of RSA key size from 4096 to 16384 which would keep us well ahead
of the curve for key sizes. It only takes one line of code to allow the creation
of a key this size. I beg you to implement this. Thank you for all you have done.

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Securityx added a project: Feature Request.Sep 13 2012, 4:56 AM
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• werner added a project: Won't Fix.Sep 17 2012, 2:46 PM
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No.

Please read all the long threads on gnupg-users to learn why this is not a good
idea. You may also want to read Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering".

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Sep 17 2012, 2:46 PM
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Securityx reopened this task as Open.Sep 17 2012, 10:12 PM

Ok I did some more research on this topic and it appears ECC is the fix for RSA
additional key sizes. Do you have any idea when ECC will be implemented into
this gem? This draft appears to be expired though so its unknown to me if there
are plans to get this implemented into the default software without requiring a
patch.

Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jivsov-openpgp-ecc-11

Once again thanks for the feedback. I tried to search but I kept getting errors
so I apologize if this was previously addressed.

• werner added a comment.Sep 26 2012, 3:21 PM

It is already available in the latest 2.1-beta.

• werner closed this task as Resolved.Sep 26 2012, 3:21 PM