I have quite a lot of keys for which ssh-vulnkey has no blacklist information. Mainly 1024
bits RSA, and 4096 bits of both kind.
The README.compromised-keys does not give any hint about how these blacklist files where
generated.
Do you plan to release the tool to help generate them for any keysize, or to have more
pre-generated files included in openssh-blacklist ?
Posted May 14, 2008 11:15 UTC (Wed) by cjwatson (subscriber, #7322)
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At present I don't think it's wise to release what essentially amounts to exploit code. For
keys that aren't in the blacklist about which you aren't sure, I recommend looking at the
timestamp information (RSA keys generated before 17 Sep 2006, when the bug was introduced,
aren't vulnerable), but otherwise regenerate the key in case of doubt.
Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems
Posted May 15, 2008 10:53 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
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The complete set of vulnerable keys has now been published.
Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems
Posted May 17, 2008 7:50 UTC (Sat) by markshuttle (subscriber, #22379)
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I doubt that. The complete set would include all possible key sizes, For DSA that's fixed at
1024 bits, for RSA it's open-ended, though anybody with more than 4096 bits is being very
conservative ;-). We had a 16k-bit key at Thawte, but it blew up most crypto libraries and
toolkits at the time, so we didn't use it much.