Re: speaking of keys

["The Purple Streak, Hilarie Orman" <ho@alum.mit.edu>]

You get about 8 bits of extra strength going from 1024 to 1280.  You get about
17 bits going from 1024 to 1536.

It is ridiculous to consider 1024 for a protocol that will exchange billions
of keys over the next several years.

Hilarie

>  > 
>  > 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.