RE: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 15

2014-08-13 Thread Bob (Robert) Cavanaugh
: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 15 On 8/13/2014 4:38 AM, Michael Anders wrote: > Baltimore published: Fort Meade is actually closer to Laurel than it is to Baltimore. > (http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml) > > symm. RSA ECC > 8010241

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 15

2014-08-13 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 8/13/2014 4:38 AM, Michael Anders wrote: > Baltimore published: Fort Meade is actually closer to Laurel than it is to Baltimore. > (http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/elliptic_curve.shtml) > > symm. RSA ECC > 801024160 > 112 2048224 > 128 3072256 > 192 768038

Re: Gnupg-users Digest, Vol 131, Issue 15

2014-08-13 Thread Michael Anders
> I'm not sure, but didn't discrete-logarithm keys scale > roughly equivalently to RSA? I think so, but I'm not sure... and > The guidance from NIST is: > > [1] shannons of entropy needed > [2] bits of symmetric key > [3] bits of RSA/DSA/ELG > [4] bits of ECDSA/ECetc. > > > [1] [2] [3