Decoded message was: Re: Article on PGP uses Gnupg :)

Per Tunedal pt@radvis.nu
Wed Jan 15 09:18:16 2003


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At 23:11 2003-01-12 -0500, you wrote:
 >
 >On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 11:28  PM, mike ledoux wrote:
 >
 >> I've used my Amazing Powers(tm)[1] to decode the message[2], which was:
 >>
 >> 	Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
 >
 >Ahem, in that case, let's hope that no one actually uses that key.  Of
 >course, since the person is obviously a Mac GPG users, he would never,
 >ever do anything like that.  ;-)
 >
 >--
 >Gordon Worley - Mac GPG Project

What's the implication of this? The encryption key 0x7846C3D2 that
Christopher Allbritton used is a 1024 bits ElGamal key. Can it easily be
broken?

What's Amazing Powers(tm)?? How fast was the message decoded? On what kind
of hardware?

Should the keys be longer for secure encryption? And what about the signing
keys?

Per Tunedal

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