[Remops] Generating a stronger PGP key?

[Bergman Admin]

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On 16/03/14 04:23 PM, Cypher wrote:
> I noticed that the PGP key that's generated by Mixmaster is only
> 1024. In light of todays technology, that seems a bit low. Is there
> a way to generate a stronger key? Also, is there a compelling
> reason /not/ to do so?

Mixmaster is known as a Type II remailer. It was written as a
replacement to the Type I or cpunk remailers of old. I suspect that
the authors of Mixmaster chose to include support for Type I messages
only as a means of transition from Type I to Type II. As such it was
written in a way that did not leave room for PGP keys sizes different
than 1024 bits.

Surprisingly, Type I messages remain popular. Probably because nyms
remain popular and they use type I.

Now, there has been improvement lately on the size of Mix keys. Take a
look at this verion of mixmaster which suports four different mix key
sizes: 1024, 2048, 3072, and 4096 (default).
http://www.zen19351.zen.co.uk/mixmaster302/

A few of us have set up test remailers - not for public consumption -
using the larger mix keys. See
http://www.mixmin.net/echolot/



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