[Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#739424: gnupg dies with "gpg: out of secure memory [...]" since 1.4.16-1

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Oct 21 16:29:33 UTC 2014


* Marc Lehmann:

> NIST 2012 also recommends similar key sizes (15360 bits).

NIST is being abit disingenuous there.  There is no published material
which shows that such long keys actually add any security.  For all we
know, they may well offer only reduced security because the large
modulus reduces mixing or something like that.



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