Re: RSA/DSA

To: Wim Bertels <wim.bertels@khleuven.be>
Cc: <debian-security@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: RSA/DSA
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:31:28 +0000
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 1322216212.2555.162.camel@zwerfkat> (Wim Bertels's message of "Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:16:52 +0100")
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* Wim Bertels:

> So why isn't it possible to choose one the longer keylengths for DSA?

The original DSA standard explicitly required that key lengths did not
exceed 1024 bits.  Older OpenSSH versions implemented that standard.

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