Re: RSA/DSA

2011-11-29 Thread Simon Valiquette
Wim Bertels un jour écrivit: On vr, 2011-11-25 at 11:31 +, Florian Weimer wrote: * 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 implemente

Re: RSA/DSA

2011-11-28 Thread Wim Bertels
On vr, 2011-11-25 at 11:31 +, Florian Weimer wrote: > * 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. t

Re: RSA/DSA

2011-11-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* 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. -- Florian Weimer BFK edv-consulting GmbH http

RSA/DSA

2011-11-25 Thread Wim Bertels
Hi, About Lenny and Squeeze: DSA Application: ssh (openssh-server) in general a RSA and DSA keypair are being used for ssh, now regarding RSA one can freely choose the length of the key, but for DSA this is fixed to 1024 bits, this is on the lower part of the recommendations of FIPS 186-3, which