Re: PGP3.0 & ElGamal

At 08:06 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
>> 
>> I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not
>> available in any form I know of.
>
>	What do you mean? 3DES ships with Stronghold, and will ship
>with C2Net's other products as well.

Yes, but I believe 3DES has an effective key length of only 112 bits.  Of
course, even this is more than sufficient for a long time to come. 

        Clay

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Clay Olbon			clay.olbon@dynetics.com
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On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, Clay Olbon II wrote:

> At 08:06 PM 11/14/96 -0800, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> I'm still mildly curious as to why support for >128 bit keys is not
> >> available in any form I know of.
> >
> >	What do you mean? 3DES ships with Stronghold, and will ship
> >with C2Net's other products as well.
> 
> Yes, but I believe 3DES has an effective key length of only 112 bits.  Of
> course, even this is more than sufficient for a long time to come. 

3DES can have an effective key length of 168 bits if 3 keys are used instead
of two.  There are no security problems that I know of from using 3 keys.

Mark
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