[Enigmail] about creating a secure encryption

[Barry Jefferson]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:
| Barry Jefferson wrote:
|> Would you say the default security algorithm use when generating a key
|> is adequate enough for personal use?
|
| That depends on what your "personal use" is.  If you're digitally
| signing 30-year mortgages, protecting nuclear weapon launch keys,
| serving as a notary public, or other such things, then no.  For
| everything else, it's more than adequate.
|
|> as i have been having second thoughts after reading this:
|
| Having looked over the site in question, I can't find anything there
| that would make me doubt GnuPG's defaults.  What precisely is concerning
| you?
|
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Just mainly it would have been nice to have the option in the program
itself to set a higher encryption but i trust what you say when you say
that it would take a nuclear powered, proton emitting computer capable
of speed of light processing to crack keys well you said it in a different

Thanks,
Barry
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