[Info-vax] VSI has released 9.2-1

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/5/2023 10:39 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> How do you tell which public-key and symmetric algorithms are good?
> Knowledge of the field.
> 
> The current gold standard for symmetric is the Advanced Encryption
> Standard, which is approved by the NSA for Top Secret information.

Yes.

> The current gold standard for public-key is RSA with a key of 4096 bits
> or longer.

I think the ECC stuff is also very widely used today.

Regrading RSA key size then I think NIST and OWASP still just
recommends >=2048. My impression is that the IT industry
often goes for 3072. 4096 is very good.

Arne