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Bug#181162: ssh-keygen: Default key length needs increasing.



* Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004-03-07 12:20]:
> > Though I have not heard of similar advances in cracking DSA,
> > increasing the default key length for those keys would probably also
> > be prudent.
> 
> The Digital Signature Standard specifies a maximum of 1024 bits for DSA
> keys: see http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip186.htm and

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure ssh-keygen let me generate a DSA key with more
than 1024 bits.

(check my authorized_keys2 file on riva for an example.)
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com




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