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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] auth/rsagen: bump bits to 4096
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 11:50:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A652DCFBDABA7DFFA055A38DCCDDC72D@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd0cf878-4ca2-454a-bd93-b4236f09e598@bolddaemon.com>

Quoth Aaron Bieber <aaron@bolddaemon.com>:
> My reasoning is basically since we don't have alternative key types 
> (ed25519, ecdsa) for
> general usage / ssh, bump the default to the highest available.

why not DJB's post-quantum RSA proposal? I believe
that the key size used there was 8796093022208 bits.

Changing it isn't wrong, but there's no "highest
available" size for RSA. Why 4096 specifically?


  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-26 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-26  4:33 Aaron Bieber
2023-11-26 12:48 ` cinap_lenrek
2023-11-26 14:46   ` Aaron Bieber
2023-11-26 16:50     ` ori [this message]
2023-11-26 19:07       ` Aaron Bieber
2023-11-26 17:06     ` cinap_lenrek
2023-11-26 19:15       ` Aaron Bieber
2023-11-26 19:43         ` cinap_lenrek
2023-11-27  0:33           ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2023-11-27  0:42             ` ori
2023-11-27  1:26               ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.
2023-11-27  9:50                 ` hiro
2023-11-27 12:22                   ` Frank D. Engel, Jr.

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