maths

Thorsten Glaser t.glaser at tarent.de
Sat Nov 7 11:43:06 AEDT 2020


On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, Darren Tucker wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 09:00, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:
> > moduli-gen/Makefile: 7 Kibit are 7168, not 7680
> 
> It's 7680 because that's the size recommended in NIST Special
> Publication 800-57 for security equivalent to 192 bits of symmetric
> cipher.  See the comments at
> https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/dh.c#L473

Ah, okay, thanks for the reference.

Might want to put that link into the Makefile, as comment.

bye,
//mirabilos


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