From: pjb@ny.ubs.com (Paul J. Bell)
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 03:37:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Is 1024-bit PGP key enough?
Message-ID: <9608021339.AA06431@sherry.ny.ubs.com>
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actually, the IDEA key is 128 bits.
	-paul

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> At 15:38 08/01/96 PDT, Jim Gillogly wrote:
> >
> >Somebody says:
> >>> Is security provided by 1024-bit PGP key sufficient against most powerful
> >>> computers that are available today? Say if smoe organization spent 10
> >>> billions of dollars on a cracking machine, would it be possible to crack 
> >>> the keys in reasonable time?
> >
> >Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> responds with some useful and authoritative
> >information -- thanks.
> >
> Also, remember that although the PGP key is 1024 bits, it generates a much
> smaller IDEA key with 56 bits (I think... anyone?).  The 56 bit key is
> vunerable to that $1 mil mystery machine that the NSA may or may not have.
>  
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