25519 is 255-bit?

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Apr 16 14:16:49 CEST 2014


On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:22, gniibe at fsij.org said:
> I don't know if we should "fix" this or not, but I think that
> it's 255-bit.

There was some problem with using 255 bit.  I can't remember right not.
Possible in an application using Libgcrypt.  Thus I rounded it up to 256
bit.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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