On May 6, 2010, at 11:47 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: > Am Freitag 07 Mai 2010 05:15:10 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor: > >> Are you judging based on the size of the block? > > Yes. :-) > > >> RSA signatures are >> significantly larger than DSA signatures, even though they sign over the >> same digest algorithm. > > OK. Thanks. So RSA signatures have the same size for different digest > algorithms?
The RSA signature size is based on the size of the RSA key (a bigger key means a bigger signature). DSA signature sizes are based on the size of a value called "q", used when generating the key. Usually, this is loosely tied to the hash and also the key size, but it doesn't have to be. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
