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<a href="https://gitlab.com/dkg">Daniel Kahn Gillmor</a>
<a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1231#note_589433686">commented</a>:
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<p dir="auto">aiui, an elliptic curve of sensible properties that uses N bits is considered to be roughly equivalent to N/2-bit symmetric crypto, so i don't think a new field is necessary,just an adjustment of the math in <code>lib/pubkey.c#L68</code>.</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://gitlab.com/dueno" data-user="470892" data-reference-type="user" data-container="body" data-placement="top" class="gfm gfm-project_member js-user-link" title="Daiki Ueno">@dueno</a>, i think you're the author of <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/commit/07596231f2e4b3c28d1587907ce51fe15c2d990a" data-original="07596231f2e" data-link="false" data-link-reference="false" data-project="179611" data-commit="07596231f2e4b3c28d1587907ce51fe15c2d990a" data-reference-type="commit" data-container="body" data-placement="top" title="algorithms: implement X448 key exchange and Ed448 signature scheme" class="gfm gfm-commit has-tooltip">07596231</a> which introduces the "57" length for Ed448.  If you're not sure why it's 57 instead of 56, maybe we can just correct it to match X448?  I'll try to propose a tested correction, and folks can critique/complain if there's something wrong.</p>
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