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r4pha on Sept 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bruce Schneier has changed his PGP key to 4096 bit...

But doesn't PGP/GPG use the pub/priv key only to encrypt/decrypt a _symmetric_ key for the encryption/decryption of the actual data?

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