RSA / DSS (keylenghts)

[Ralf Senderek]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Pete Chown wrote:


> 
> There is no reason why you couldn't have a DSA key longer than 1024
> bits (that I am aware of).  However, to get any benefit from this you
> would need to make the other modulus longer than 160 bits.  This would
> mean using a hash function other than SHA-1, for example Tiger/192.

That's correct. But if you have to comply with American Standards (DSS)
this would not help, beacause DSS restricts p to 1024 bits and q to 160 bits.

Ralf.

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