[Remops] Generating a stronger PGP key?

[Cypher]

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On 03/17/2014 02:54 PM, Bergman Admin wrote:
> 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/

I just ran across an article on this very thing on the
alt.privacy.anon-server group. Looks like the code for this was
written around 4 years ago? How are experimental test servers going?
Do you believe they are close for 'ready for prime time'?

Thanks!
Cypher

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