[tor-talk] Why does Tor use the key lengths it does?

[Nick Mathewson]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:40 PM, F. Fox <kitsune.or at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just curious as to why Tor uses RSA-1024/AES-128, and not something like
> RSA-2048/AES-256.
>
> I suppose if keys are rotated enough, it doesn't matter much... is this
> what's up with it?

I wrote a mail about this a few months ago:

http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Dec-2010/msg00329.html .

cheers,
-- 
Nick