[OTR-users] Encryption strength option

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Sat Jun 28 11:24:57 EDT 2008


On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:49:51AM -0400, tinbull at gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to select how strong the RSA encryption is? I was hoping to 
> get 4096-bit keys.

Indeed, there's no RSA in OTR at all.  But more generally, it doesn't
make sense to increase the strength of one part of the system without
doing the same to all of the parts.  See this message, for example:

http://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2008-May/001289.html

   - Ian



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