[OTR-users] Encryption strength option

noah ---- tinbull at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 11:51:23 EDT 2008


Ahh, I thought I had read somewhere otr used RSA, my bad. Thanks for the
link, very informative!

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:

> 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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