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RFC 8270
Title: Increase the Secure Shell Minimum
Recommended Diffie-Hellman Modulus
Size to 2048 Bits
Author: L. Velvindron,
M. Baushke
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: December 2017
Mailbox: logan@hackers.mu,
mdb@juniper.net
Pages: 5
Characters: 9440
Updates: RFC 4419
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-dh-group-exchange-06.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8270
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8270
The Diffie-Hellman (DH) Group Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH)
transport-layer protocol specifies that servers and clients should
support groups with a minimum modulus group size of 1024 bits.
Recent security research has shown that the minimum value of 1024
bits is insufficient to protect against state-sponsored actors and
any organization with enough computing resources. This RFC updates
RFC 4419, which allowed for DH moduli less than 2048 bits; now, 2048
bits is the minimum acceptable group size.
This document is a product of the CURves, Deprecating and a Little more Encryption Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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