Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

>> i'm not that kind of nut. i'm the kind of nut that uses 4096 RSA 
>> encryption keys on my pgp key.
>
> Use 4097 bits.  Not only is it twice as hard to crack, but no-one would 
> guess it was a funny size...
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when dealing with symmetric encryption, each extra bit doubles the 
keyspace. with asymmetric encryption (RSA) it doesn't quite scale the way. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_key_length#Asymmetric_algorithm_key_lengths


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