Re: ACTION-285: Crypto keysize references

Yngve,
  these references have been incorporated into the editor's draft.

I am leaving it to tlr to come up with the text where these references 
need to be cited.

Regards,
Anil

Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Here are the document I suggest we should reference about keysizes:
>
> * NIST: http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/kms/SP800-57Part2April2005.pdf
> base reference: http://csrc.nist.gov/CryptoToolkit/tkkeymgmt.html
>
> * The ECRYPT Yearly Report on Algorithms and Key Lengths: (2006 
> edition) http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/documents/D.SPA.21-1.1.pdf
> Main page: http://www.ecrypt.eu.org/
> " European Network of Excellence for Cryptology is a 4-year network of 
> excellence funded within the Information Societies Technology (IST) 
> Programme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)"
>
> I think the should be a suggestion that implementers should, when 
> possible, follow the most pessimistic recommendation. Example: NIST 
> still recommends 1024 bit RSA until 2010, ECRYPT only recommended this 
> until end of 2006.
>
> Possible additional reference:
>
> * NESSIE: 
> https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/deliverables/decision-final.pdf
> From https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/ :
> "NESSIE is a project within the Information Society Technologies (IST) 
> Programme of the European Commission"
>
> Background/other references:
>
> * RFC 3766: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3766.txt
>
> * The Twirl document: http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2004
>
>

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Anil Saldhana
Project/Technical Lead,
JBoss Security & Identity Management
JBoss, A division of Red Hat Inc.
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Received on Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:57:42 UTC