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Re: 112-bit prime ECDLP solved
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Mon Jul 20 19:35:29 2009
In-Reply-To: <B1C15848-694D-4CAD-B3E0-645A9E060A9D@zooko.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:24:34 -0700
To: "Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn" <zooko@zooko.com>
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
At 7:54 AM -0600 7/18/09, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>This involves deciding whether a 192-bit elliptic curve public key is strong enough...
Why not just go with 256-bit EC (128-bit symmetric strength)? Is the 8 bytes per signature the issue, or the extra compute time?
--Paul Hoffman, Director
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