Re: available crypto policies

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On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:15:33PM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 09:05 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > > > According to
> > > > http://www.keylength.com/en/compare/
> > > > the asymetric sizes do not match the symmetric size according to most
> > > > sources listed on http://www.keylength.com/en/compare/.
> > > 
> > > That's old version. New one (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy)
> > > is:
> > > Legacy: 767+
> > > default: 1023+
> > shouldn't this be 2047+ ?
> 
> If we do that then the applications that use these settings will be
> unable to talk to any servers that offer 1024 keys. Given the number of
> these servers that would be a good reason for applications not switching
> to this centrally managed configuration system. That is we'd have these
> settings as in a museum and no-one will be using them.

Who still uses 1024-bit keys?  You aren't finding a CA to sign them.

- -- Eric

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