Re: Addition to SHS...?

From: Roger Schlafly (rogersc_at_mindspring.com)
Date: 12/03/03


Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 07:06:23 GMT


"Kim Hyldgaard" <kim.hyldgaard@dxd.ericsson.se> wrote
> What the reason for specifying a 224? - Obviously one could think of
> computation speed, but since it's based on 256?

It is an odd announcement. There is an official NIST elliptic curve of
that size, but there are other sizes as well, and usually truncation is
necessary.



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