On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Kevin Hilton wrote: > When the session key is randomly generated (asymmetric encryption), > how large is the session key? Is the length set or does it depend on > other parameter such as the length of the DSA/RSA key or hash? It is the key size of your symmetric cipher. So AES256 == 256 bits, AES128 == 128 bits, etc. David