On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is there a reason ssh-keygen restricts DSA keys to exactly 1024 bits, > given that NIST is recommending a minimum of 2048? > NIST also requires that DSA keys longer than 1024 bits use a hash stronger than SHA1 while the SSH RFC require the use of SHA1. https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647 -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev