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Key Length Correlation

To: cypher punks <[email protected]>
Subject: Key Length Correlation
From: Jeff Davis <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 13:02:03 -0700 (PDT)
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I've read Blaze and diffie's paper on Semetric Key Length.  I'm currious
how semetric key length correlates to public key cryptography length.  Does
public key length have to be much longer, (assuming the algorithms are strong),
to provide the same level of security as a shorter semetric key?  TIA   
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