Please note that the importance of RSA is going to decline in favor of
Elliptic Curve Crypto over GF(p). In particular, by 2010 ECC will be
mandated. I suspect there are cryptographic reasons for it.
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OpenSSL Project
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005, Tan Eng Ten wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a general crypto question and I hope someone could help me
> out.
>
> Often we use RSA of 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc. bit lengths. Are
> other sizes such as 520/1045 bit "valid"? Mathematically, it should
>
Microsoft Root
Certificate Authority key in the Microsoft Certificate Store is 4096 bits in
length.
Steven
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Subject: Re: RS
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:21:30PM +0800, Tan Eng Ten wrote:
> This is a general crypto question and I hope someone could help me
> out.
>
> Often we use RSA of 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, etc. bit lengths. Are
> other sizes such as 520/1045 bit "valid"? Mathematically, it sh
