[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Ed448 keys are indicated as having a 456-bit "security level" (#1231)

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Daiki Ueno commented:


FWIW the relevant code is:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/master/lib/pubkey.c#L68

For some reason,Ed448 indeed has a size definition as 57:
https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/blob/master/lib/algorithms/ecc.c#L111

If we want to be more accurate, I guess there should be another field representing security strength.

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