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Re: Bigger DSA keys

2005-09-20 02:07:26

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:34:38AM -0400, Adam Back wrote:

Could one not use the Lim Lee safe prime generation method for DSA?

It has significant speed advantages.

Adam

DSS explicitly specifies how to generate primes for DSA keys. It can be
easily generalized for larger keys and other hash functions, and its
reasonable to assume that the new DSS will do that.

My estimates were based on that specification.

-- 
Daniel

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