We all know that US Government has banned 128 bit encryption to places like India. While so, it is given in the Sun website that the keypair generated using keytool is 1024 bits. What does that mean? Can you explain me please.

Created May 4, 2012

John Zukowski

The keypairs in question are used for authentication. The US export restrictions limiting key size are for encryption.

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