Crypto Stick released!

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Thu Jun 3 17:02:39 CEST 2010


On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Perry, James J. wrote:

>> From what I see on the advertisement, they say it has "Three independent
> RSA keys (signature, encryption, authentication) with a length up to
> 3072 bit."  While I don't speak Marketing, it sure sounds like each key
> is 1024 with the three of them taking up 3072 total.

That is not correct.  Each individual key can be up to 3072 bytes.  The internal hardware can actually handle slightly more, but 3072 is the current limit.

David




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