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Re: speaking of keys

Derrell Piper wrote:
> 
> What's the current state-of-the-art for COTS hardware accelerators?  It
> was the case a few years back that many public-key chips didn't do
>  >1024 bit DH groups.  What's the story today?  Do we care?
> 
> Derrell

Derrell,

A bit over a year ago many accelerators went to 2048, although I
think in general that operations performed with larger keys
are slower than 1024-bit operations.

-brian
briank@briank.com