Monday, July 22, 2002

The US bureau of standards (NIST) has drafted some official recommendations for cryptographic key sizes, in bits. These are security guidelines. Here they are, along with the years of validity.



Algorithm
Now-2015
2016-2035
2036-Forever
Paranoid
Paranoid

Cipher Skipjack TDES AES-128 AES-192 AES-256
Hash SHA-1 SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512
Cipher key 80 112 128 192 256
EC order 160 224 256 384 512
DSA order 160 224 256 384 512
DSA modulus 1024 2048 3072 7680 15360
RSA modulus 1024 2048 3072 7680 15360

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