Understanding Problem with rsa min key length 1024

Darren Tucker dtucker at dtucker.net
Fri Apr 12 09:35:57 AEST 2019


On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 02:53, Mark D. Baushke <mdb at juniper.net> wrote:
[...]
>
> I agree with your points and I also agree that a default of 2048 now and
> 3072 bits in a few years for OpenSSH may be desirable.

The soon-to-be-released 8.0 will increase the default RSA key size to
3kbit for pretty much the reasons you cite.

http://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=f47269ea67eb4ff87454bf0d2a03e55532786482
http://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=26e0cef07b04479537c971dec898741df1290fe5

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