Re: Fwd: Re: IKEv2 Key Size Conformance Requirements

[Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@east.sun.com>]

> All of us know that 1024 bits key makes 128 - 8 bit bytes, since the
> computer industry is shifting more and more to embedded cryptography, i.e in
> the VLSI chips. I believe we should keep the pattern of integral multiples
> of bytes. In other words we keep the 1024 bits keys.

Is there any particular reason why it's difficult to make an
implementation which doesn't break if the high order bit of the high
order byte of the modulus is zero?

							- Bill