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Re: STT - useable in real life ?
[email protected] (lyal collins) writes:
>From reading the STT specs, a 'credential' is made up of typically 4
>certificates - root, country CA, issuer Ca, and cardholder/merchant.
>Two certificates are based upon a 1024 bit public keys, 1 (root) is 2048
>while the cardholder PK is 512/768 bit.
>I believe a decrypt operation is required to verify each certificate.
Usually, decrypt operations are needed to ISSUE certificates but not to
verify them. Verification is equivalent to an encrypt operation using a
small exponent, and may be roughly about 100 times faster than a decrypt.
Hal