Another minimum key length question

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sat Jan 27 07:11:56 AEDT 2018


On Fri 2018-01-26 18:37:55 +0000, h8t luv wrote:

> Moving further, I recognized to my surprise, that my private key which
> I generated back in April 2016 was created with 1023 bit

what tool (and what version) were you using in april 2016 that produced
a 1023-bit RSA key?  I would agree with you that it's not significantly
worse than a 1024-bit RSA key, but nothing remotely modern should be
doing that.

         --dkg



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