On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:07:40 +0100, Peter Lebbing
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 02/01/15 17:11, Peter Lebbing wrote:
it would increase the size of the public key by at least 13
characters
(making it 50% longer) but it seems a good tradeoff to me.
Minor nitpick: I meant 12 characters. I didn't want to think about it
and simply
used 'echo 12345678|base64|wc' but that included the newline (should
have
specified -n to echo).
And also, it's only an increase of 50% when you use a 160-bit curve;
it gets
relatively less for larger curves.
The reason I'm taking 64 bits as the size of the increase is that
PBKDF2
recommends at least 64 bits of salting.
Thank you Peter for your answers - the nitpick in this case doesn't
really change my conclusions, but I very much appreciate that kind of
precise and complete information. Even if only for the feeling of
"complete comprehension" (if that term makes sense in english).
Ben
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