Re: Encryption size

From: Lassi Hippeläinen (lahippel.at.ieee.org_at_moon.invalid)
Date: 10/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:16:12 +0300

frank wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me what size a 16-byte MD5 or 20-byte SHA-1 message
> digest will encrypt to using the RSA algorithm? Will they still be 16
> bytes or 20 bytes respectively? Or will they get any larger?
>
> Many thanks,
> F.

They will be rounded up to the next full block. The block size is one design
parameter that you can choose within some limits.

-- Lassi

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