[Remops] mixmaster's 1024-bit RSA is getting old

[Lance Cottrell]

I like to avoid asking users to think too much.

It would be ideal if there were some kind of timer or something, so it could get widely deployed before starting to be used.

	-Lance

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Lance Cottrell
loki at obscura.com



On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:16 PM, lists at notatla.org.uk wrote:

> Lance Cottrell <loki obscura.com> writes:
> 
>> In practice, no one uses more than a few hops for real
>> messages. I suspect that 5 is the realistic upper limit to
>> ensure reasonable delivery time and reliability.  I really
>> went over the top in using 20 header blocks.
> 
> Good thing too provided the cost was acceptable.  If you'd
> used 6 hops then halving it would get 3.
> 
>> Roll out will be a key. One does not want client software that
>> only has one or two servers through which it could route,
>> nor would one want to be one of only a few few users of the
>> new key size, since that would be easily tracked as well.
> 
> Ease of deployment is why I've arranged my code as I have.  Remailers
> and clients don't need to update at the same time and anyone with the
> new client remains able to use all the remailers.
> 
> You can always pick a 1024 remailer as a first hop if you don't want
> to be recognised as a user of the new software (assuming you downloaded
> it undetected).

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