GDSA: Bit length of private key

2010-08-24 Thread Ingo Naumann
Hi All, I haven't received an answer, so I am giving it another try Does anybody have a clue? Ingo -- Forwarded message -- From: Ingo Naumann cyberurc...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:44 PM Subject: GDSA: Bit length of private key To: Crypto++ Users

Re: GDSA: Bit length of private key

2010-08-24 Thread Wei Dai
The reason that happens is that GDSA assumes if the modulus size is 2048, there is no reason to use a private exponent longer than about 226 bits since that wouldn't add more security. If you need to work around this, you can generate the private exponent yourself, and then call