Har har. ;)

What takes everything so long to be set up then if I use a 512-bit key?
Is it the prime number?

h

On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 23:16, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Haig C Didizian wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone happen to know how many more 512-bit DH keys there are than
> > 256-bit keys, for example? I don't need numbers, but is it a linear
> > relationship between keysize and DH keyspace? I'm assuming that things
> > are never that simple...
> 
> Armenian jokes aside,  it is just as simple as 2^512 - 2^256.
> 
> DH private keys are just random n-bit numbers.
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