At 2004-02-08 02:04:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If even breaking the 128-bit encryption offered by SSL websites is > non-trivial to break, dont you think 1024 bit keys are going to be > more difficult to break by orders of magnitude?
Apples and elephants. SSL/TLS peers use X.509 certificates for authentication, and negotiate a session key to use with a symmetric cipher for bulk encryption. The 128-bit refers to the length of this session key. With PGP, the 1024 bits refers to the length of the public key. With some hand-waving, a 128-bit symmetric cipher is approximately the same strength as (or maybe a little more than) a 1024-bit asymmetric cipher. -- ams _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
