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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 15, 2008 10:53 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems by cjwatson
Parent article: Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

The complete set of vulnerable keys has now been published.


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Cryptographic weakness on Debian systems

Posted May 17, 2008 7:50 UTC (Sat) by markshuttle (subscriber, #22379) [Link]

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.

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