generating RSA key sizes > 4096

Hauke Laging mailinglisten at hauke-laging.de
Thu Dec 5 02:29:30 CET 2013


Am Do 05.12.2013, 00:43:24 schrieb Bernd Eckenfels:

> The "legacy minumum" is 1024, the future system minimum is 3072 and for
> long term they recommend 15360 bits. (or ECDLP 512bit).

This document is quite strange as it is inconsistent (from text to table). 
They say that it was a matter of taste whether to recommend 2048 or 3072 as a 
minimum. They do not say 2048 was too short.


Hauke
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