Re: Encryption size

From: Ertugrul Soeylemez (never_at_drwxr-xr-x.org)
Date: 10/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:24:07 +0100

Volker Birk <bumens@dingens.org> (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:

It's absolutely *not* implementation-specific. It will be of size of
the RSA modulus.

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