[Opendnssec-develop] DSA key length in DNSKEY records

[Olaf Kolkman]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Alexd at nominet.org.uk wrote:

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> My current best guess is that the DSA key length can be derived as (64 + 8*T) octets. However, I still don't think I've found anything which specifically confirms this (i.e. RFC 2536 doesn't actually confirm that the length of P is actually the key length - I think). 



Wikipedia:

Decide on a key length L and N. This is the primary measure of the cryptographic strength of the key. The original DSS constrained L to be a multiple of 64 between 512 and 1024 (inclusive). NIST 800-57 recommends lengths of 2048 (or 3072) for keys with security lifetimes extending beyond 2010 (or 2030), using correspondingly longer N. FIPS 186-3specifies L and N length pairs of (1024,160), (2048,224), (2048,256), and (3072,256).



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