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Ge' Weijers (ge@Progressive-Systems.Com)
Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:45:07 -0400
On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 10:26:12PM -0300, Paulo Barreto wrote:
> Aha! But you could equally vote for the length of x, as that seems to
> determine the work factor for an attacker as long as p is in a suitable
> range (for instance, it's futile to choose |p| = 2048 while keeping |q| =
> 160).
I'm sure marketing departments will vote for the larger number. I'm
sure that we won't see 'equivalent to an 80-bit symmetric key' in any
4-color glossy brochures.
Ge'
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Thu May 27 1999 - 23:44:21