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(EC)?DH security level as function of key size #38

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lvh opened this issue Feb 8, 2014 · 1 comment
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(EC)?DH security level as function of key size #38

lvh opened this issue Feb 8, 2014 · 1 comment

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lvh commented Feb 8, 2014

The current version of the book cites RSA Labs which talks about relative required key sizes for the RSA problem (solved with GNFS) versus an elliptic curve variant (solved using some unnamed sqrt(n) algorithm). We're using this for DH, even though it's obviously not about DH. There's a footnote clarifying that EC vs classic DH has a similar work factor, but it'd be cool if we had a real citation for this instead of just a handwave.

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lvh commented Feb 8, 2014

The eCRYPT document on key size recommendations might be useful (and, indeed, useful in general!)

http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.20.pdf

frewsxcv pushed a commit to frewsxcv/book that referenced this issue Apr 17, 2017
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