From: Aaron Bieber <aaron@bolddaemon.com>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] auth/rsagen: bump bits to 4096
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 12:07:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e0c8eeb2-0d34-4e72-9621-0fcb43b63f77@bolddaemon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A652DCFBDABA7DFFA055A38DCCDDC72D@eigenstate.org>
On 11/26/23 09:50, ori@eigenstate.org wrote:
> 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?
>
Ya, bad wording on my side. 4096 is the "max" supported by other tools,
gpg for example. So staying under that bar would allow for key-portability.
I am not married to it though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-26 19:09 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
2023-11-26 19:07 ` Aaron Bieber [this message]
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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