Ludwig wrote: >> for encryption, currently the 256 bit algo's are the strongest.
>Please don't mix symmetrical encryption strength (I suppose you are >referring to the session key length/encryption algo) with asymmetrical >encryption strength. > >A chain is only as strong as its weakest element. Indeed. And the stmmetrical algorithms are currently certainly not the weakest element. A symmetrical algo with no better than brute force attacs and 128 bits is comparable to a RSA or DH key of about 2400 bits. The 256 bit symmetrical algo's are of course stronger, I don't know how much compared with public key strength. And anyway, because breaking the pubkey algo allows one to read all ancrypted messages and breaking the symmetric key to read only one it makes sense to try to make the pubkey algo the strongest element. -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers // Physics and science fiction site: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/index.html PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
