Kleopatra - typo in bit size?

Damien Goutte-Gattat dgouttegattat at incenp.org
Tue Jan 9 16:38:49 CET 2018


On 01/09/2018 01:47 PM, Marco A.G.Pinto wrote:
> [13:42] <+marcoagpinto> NIST P-521
> [13:42] <+marcoagpinto> shouldn't it be "P-512" instead of "P-521"?

No, it's really P-521. That's the name of the curve, which stems from 
the fact that the modulus for that curve is $2^{521} - 1$, as defined in 
<http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-4.pdf>.

Damien

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