> Why you would choose to use the weakest defensible option

I still remain confused why people are interpreting this from what I wrote. I'm not "choosing" to use RSA nor advocating for its use. I'm pointing out anecdotally that I have a GnuPG keychain still live with a 1024 bit key from the last millenium (or close to that, honestly I don't know for sure) that everyone was *sure*, 20 years ago, was broken and insecure. And... it wasn't. It's fine.

The xkcd point seems profound to me: the crypto nerds were entirely wrong about their focus and sense of urgency here. Today, it's much cheaper to steal my key with simple violence. It will remain so when I'm on my death bed. Probably when my heirs are too. And I find that interesting. What else are we nerds getting wrong?