Re: speaking of keys

["Marcus Leech" <mleech@nortelnetworks.com>]

Russ Housley wrote:
> 
> The draft NIST guidelines do not offer an recommendations on values between
> 1024 and 2048.  However, some interpolation is possible.  I think that we
> should consider 1280 and 1536.
> 
> Russ
Actually, 1280 was one of the values I had thought of, but I don't have
  a good intuitive feel for how much stronger it is than 1024.

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