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[ABANDONED] Mail App with integrated OpenPGP encryption

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Open mpmks11 opened 10 years ago

mpmks11 commented 10 years ago

Is it possible to change the default key size. Maybe to 4096 bit RSA?

felixhammerl commented 10 years ago

We thought about it, but there are multiple problems with that.

4k RSA keys take really long to generate, even longer if you're on a platform that does not support generating the keys natively via WebCrypto API. On mobile, that is prohibitively slow. We're talking about 10 minutes on some platforms.
We want to migrate away from RSA to ECC/ECDSA anyway, but that depends on this openpgp.js ticket: https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs/issues/26