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Comment by TacticalCoder

Tangentially related but regarding RSA and ECC... With RSA can't we just say: "Let's use 16 384 bit keys" and be safe for a long while?

And for ECC, I know many are using the "2 exp 255 - 19" / 25519 for it's unlikely to be backdoored but it's only 256 bits but... Can't we find, say, "2 exp 2047 - 19" (just making that one up) and be safe for a while too?

Basically: for RSA and ECC, is there anything preventing us from using keys 10x bigger?

parent TacticalCoder 6 months ago

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