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Darren Tucker dtucker at dtucker.net
Sat Nov 7 11:32:08 AEDT 2020


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

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