Re: Encryption size

From: Volker Birk (bumens_at_dingens.org)
Date: 10/30/05


Date: 30 Oct 2005 15:12:33 +0200

frank <francis.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

This is implementation specific AFAICS, see:

http://www.di-mgt.com.au/rsa_alg.html

Yours,
VB.

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