[Bug 1853] sshd doesn't seem to be able to auth a user using an rsa key of 20000 bit

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Sat Feb 5 04:38:37 EST 2011


https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1853

Tomas Mraz <t8m at centrum.cz> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Tomas Mraz <t8m at centrum.cz> 2011-02-05 04:38:37 EST ---
This is not blocked in ssh but in OpenSSL. RSA keys larger than 16384
bits are disallowed in it because of potential CPU resource overusage
(effective DoS) on servers.

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