Re: RSA key size not allowed in FIPS

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Am Dienstag, 9. August 2016, 16:55:52 CEST schrieb Stephan Mueller:

Hi Tapas, David,
> 
> David, the x509.genkey file seems to generate a 4k RSA key per default. This
> will cause a panic with fips=1 as only 2k and 3k keys are allowed.

Just yesterday, a new ruling came out from NIST allowing any key size >= 2048 
provided that at least either 2048 or 3072 is a usable key size to allow CAVS 
testing.

I will send a patch that changes this in the code.

Thanks
Stephan
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