/* * Public Key Work Factor Functions * (C) 1999-2007,2012 Jack Lloyd * * Distributed under the terms of the Botan license */ #include #include #include namespace Botan { size_t dl_work_factor(size_t bits) { /* Based on GNFS work factors. Constant is 1.43 times the asymptotic value; I'm not sure but I believe that came from a paper on 'real world' runtimes, but I don't remember where now. Sample return values: |512| -> 64 |1024| -> 86 |1536| -> 102 |2048| -> 116 |3072| -> 138 |4096| -> 155 |8192| -> 206 For DL algos, we use an exponent of twice the size of the result; the assumption is that an arbitrary discrete log on a group of size bits would take about 2^n effort, and thus using an exponent of size 2^(2*n) implies that all available attacks are about as easy (as e.g Pollard's kangaroo algorithm can compute the DL in sqrt(x) operations) while minimizing the exponent size for performance reasons. */ const size_t MIN_WORKFACTOR = 64; // approximates natural logarithm of p const double log_p = bits / 1.4426; const double strength = 2.76 * std::pow(log_p, 1.0/3.0) * std::pow(std::log(log_p), 2.0/3.0); return std::max(static_cast(strength), MIN_WORKFACTOR); } }