History of Cryptographic Key Sizes

Nigel P.  Smart; Emmanuel Thome

Paper 2021/894 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2021/894 ↗

History of Cryptographic Key Sizes

Nigel P. Smart

Emmanuel Thome

Abstract

We present a history of how cryptographic key sizes have been determined for various schemes.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2021-07-01: last updated; 2021-07-01: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2021/894
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/894,
      author = {Nigel P.  Smart and Emmanuel Thome},
      title = {History of Cryptographic Key Sizes},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/894},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/894}
}