| Years |
Symmetric Alg. |
Hash Alg. |
HMAC |
DSA, D-H, MQV |
RSA |
ECC |
Present- 2015 |
TDES AES-128 AES-192 AES-256 |
SHA-1 SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512 |
SHA-1 (80+ bit key) SHA-256 (128+ bit key) SHA-384 (192+ bit key) SHA-512 (256+ bit key) |
Min: L=1024 N=160 |
Min: k=1024 |
Min: f=160 |
2016- beyond |
TDES AES-128 AES-192 AES-256 |
SHA-256 SHA-384 SHA-512 |
SHA-256 (128+ bit key) SHA-384 (192+ bit key) SHA-512 (256+ bit key) |
Min: L=2048 N=224 |
Min: k=2048 |
Min: f=224 |
| Bits of Security |
Symmetric Cipher |
Hash Alg. |
DSA, D-H, MQV (discrete log systems) |
RSA |
ECC |
80 |
SHA-1 |
L=1024 N=160 |
k=1024 |
f=160 |
|
112 |
TDES |
L=2048 N=224 |
k=2048 |
f=224 |
|
128 |
AES-128 |
SHA-256 |
L=3072 N=256 |
k=3072 |
f=256 |
192 |
AES-192 |
SHA-384 |
L=7680 N=384 |
k=7680 |
f=384 |
256 |
AES-256 |
SHA-512 |
L=15360 N=512 |
k=15360 |
f=512 |
The data on this page is taken from NIST's Key Management Guidelines.
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