Applied Security: Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes, Dec 6 3PM

[Kevin Fu]

What:  Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes
When:  Monday, December 6, 3-4PM
Where: NE43-518 (note change of location)
Who:   Applied Security Reading Group

On December 6, we'll have a discussion of this paper:

Selecting Cryptographic Key Sizes
by Arjen Lenstra and Eric Verheul
released Nov 15, 1999

Abstract: In this article we offer guidelines for the determination of
key sizes for symmetric cryptosystems, RSA, and discrete logarithm
based cryptosystems both over finite fields and over groups of
elliptic curves over prime fields.  Our recommendations are based on a
set of explicitly formulated hypotheses, combined with existing data
points about the cryptosystems.


For a copy of the paper, see
http://www.cryptosavvy.com/cryptosizes.pdf or NE43-520.

Lenstra is well known for his work on factoring.  If you want to read
about his past predictions, search for "Lenstra" on
www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec98/summaries/

See you next week!

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Kevin E. Fu (fubob at mit.edu)
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