Holger Reif wrote:
>
> I'll try wether there is the some reason for beeing unable to
> genereate 24 Bit or 1025 Bit Keys...
>
1025 probably yes: OpenSSL 0.9.1c has the problem the latest snapshot
doesn't.
24 bit keys: the prime generator algorithm falls over for such small
values. Its not very good for things like 32bit keys either. Having said
that such things can be trivially broken anyway.
Steve.
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