I am using openssl. I need to use a bigger RSA key (2048 ). Is there any relation between the size of the RSA key and the size of the symmetric key (say DES). SSL doesn’t appear to put any restriction
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I am using openssl. I need to use a bigger RSA key (2048 ). Is there any relation between the size of the RSA key and the size of the symmetric key (say DES). SSL doesn’t appear to put any restriction
Size of symmetric key depends on the symmetric algorithm and it’s not directly related to asymmetric key size. Eg. no matter what length of used RSA key is, DES key will remain at 56 bits.