best practices

vedaal at nym.hush.com vedaal at nym.hush.com
Tue Dec 14 16:08:12 CET 2010


Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org wrote on
Tue Dec 14 15:47:08 CET 2010 :

>
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-57/sp800-57-Part1-
revised2_Mar08-2007.pdf

Page 63.
>

Thanks.

Always wondered about that. The table says:

AES-256 ... RSA k = 15360

Does anybody who is careful about using a 256 symmetric cipher 
actually use a 15k rsa key??

(makes me more comfortable with my prefereces for 3DES and a 4k key 
;-) )


vedaal




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