Comparison of RSA vs elliptical keys

[Stefan Claas]

Stefan Claas wrote:
 
> MFPA wrote:
>  
> [...]
> 
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > 
> > iQ8RBAEWCg65FiEElgyGKNWS/4zei7C/4OLe4dbI7voFAl692adfFIAAAAAALgAo
> [...]
> 
> > RjfdBwsdZJrUrgtu7YTLAf0/v9mZZBAXfvO8CgNySZfWWZ5IP0BvHLgkUXI0r7Qt
> > kuQMuu7LJiMJFrPQKIL1cQ==
> > =XcGg
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> Hi,
> 
> out of curiosity, you signed the reply with two sub keys, but
> what makes the signature so large, the hash algo used? I must
> admit I have never seen such a large signature before.
> 
> And slightly OT, when not counting the two last short lines
> in the signature, 378 NaClbox public keys would fit in in
> the signature! :-)

Correction, a NaClbox key is 32 bytes but in an ASCII representation
64 ASCII chars long in the key ring, so it would 'only' be 189 public
keys.

Regards
Stefan



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