maximum keylength

David Picón Álvarez eleuteri@myrealbox.com
Sat Oct 26 03:35:01 2002


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Hi,

Just a couple of questions:

1) Does openpgp establish a maximum keylength for rsa or elgamal keys? I
understand DSA is a fixed 1024 key.

2) I've read somewhere of versions of pgp that can generate 8192 length
keys. Can gnupg work with them? And why not allow generation? Is it a
limitation of the way the mathematics are done or is it just because piling
up more bits is not very useful any more?

--David.



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