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Re: NIST publishes new DSA draft

Jon Callas <jon@callas.org> Tue, 18 April 2006 22:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: NIST publishes new DSA draft
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On 14 Mar 2006, at 7:58 AM, David Shaw wrote:

>
> In the OpenPGP context, probably the most interesting bit is that the
> 160-bit hash limit has been removed.  The sizes supported are:
>
> * 1024-bit key, 160-bit hash (the current DSA)
> * 2048-bit key, 224-bit hash (presumably aimed at SHA-224)
> * 2048-bit key, 256-bit hash (presumably aimed at SHA-256)
> * 3072-bit key, 256-bit hash (presumably aimed at SHA-256)
>

I've added in SHA-224.

Just don't ask me to sign with it. :-)

	Jon

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