DSA key sizes

Robert J. Hansen rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Mon Nov 10 14:56:36 CET 2014


> FIPS-186-3, the document that specifies DSS (aka DSA with some
> additional restrictions as to algorithm, key length, etc) specifies 4
> key sizes:

Five, but nobody uses DSA-512 and I think it's been formally obsoleted.
 But yes, DSA-512 is a real thing, although GnuPG never supported it
(for good reasons -- it was seen as marginal even when it first came out!).



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