RSA question
Sampo Syreeni
decoy at iki.fi
Fri Sep 3 12:16:00 EDT 2010
On 2010-09-02, travis+ml-cryptography at subspacefield.org wrote:
> I hear that NIST Key Mgmt guideline (SP 800-57) suggests that the RSA
> key size equivalent to a 256 bit symmetric key is roughly 15360 bits.
> I haven't actually checked this reference, so I don't know how they
> got such a big number; caveat emptor.
I would imagine it'd be the result of fitting some reasonable
exponential to both keylengths and extrapolating, which then of course
blows up...for once *literally* exponentially. ;)
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