# strength of DSA keys in JDK

Dave Miller (dmiller@preEmptive.com)
Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:11:23 -0400

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    Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:11:23 -0400

    To: java-security@web2.javasoft.com

    From: Dave Miller <dmiller@preEmptive.com>

    Subject: strength of DSA keys in JDK

hey -

what is the strength of a DSA key pair in the JDK?
i know that you can set a "strength" parameter of
the initialize() method of the KeyPairGenerator
object. from what i found in the documentation,
this number sets the bit length of the modulus
used to calculate the key. what is the maximum
strength of a DSA key pair? what is the weakest?

thanks for your time...

dave

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