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Re: Debian encouraging use of 4096 bit RSA keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Sep 14 10:58:23 2010
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <20100914081552.7eec6fc5@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:47:09 +1200
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>One wonders what security model indicated 4096 bits is the ideal length....
The one that says that if you wind things up past 11 (4096 bits), various
things break.
(D'you really think they applied any kind of security analysis to the choice
of key size? They just wound it up until they got to 11, then declared that
the new key size).
Peter.
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