RSA / DSS (keylenghts)

[L. Sassaman]

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- --Len.

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Ralf Senderek wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Pete Chown wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > There is no reason why you couldn't have a DSA key longer than 1024
> > bits (that I am aware of).  However, to get any benefit from this you
> > would need to make the other modulus longer than 160 bits.  This would
> > mean using a hash function other than SHA-1, for example Tiger/192.
> 
> That's correct. But if you have to comply with American Standards (DSS)
> this would not help, beacause DSS restricts p to 1024 bits and q to 160 bits.
> 
> Ralf.
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