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<a href="https://gitlab.com/pLuster">Patrik Lundquist</a> created an issue: <a href="https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1320">#1320</a>
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<a id="user-content-description-of-problem" class="anchor" href="#description-of-problem" aria-hidden="true"></a>Description of problem:</h2>
<p dir="auto">Using <code>certtool --sec-param high</code> per recommendation from certtool generates a smaller key than expected.</p>
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<a id="user-content-version-of-gnutls-used" class="anchor" href="#version-of-gnutls-used" aria-hidden="true"></a>Version of gnutls used:</h2>
<p dir="auto">3.7.3</p>
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<a id="user-content-distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" class="anchor" href="#distributor-of-gnutls-eg-ubuntu-fedora-rhel" aria-hidden="true"></a>Distributor of gnutls (e.g., Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL)</h2>
<p dir="auto">Ubuntu</p>
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<a id="user-content-how-reproducible" class="anchor" href="#how-reproducible" aria-hidden="true"></a>How reproducible:</h2>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" lang="plaintext" v-pre="true" style="border-radius: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px; padding: 8px 12px; border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;"><code><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext">certtool --generate-privkey --bits=4096 --outfile some.key</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">** Note: You may use '--sec-param High' instead of '--bits 4096'</span>
<span id="LC3" class="line" lang="plaintext">Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key...</span></code></pre>
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<p dir="auto">OK, lets use <code>--sec-param high</code> instead of <code>--bits=4096</code>.</p>
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<a id="user-content-actual-results" class="anchor" href="#actual-results" aria-hidden="true"></a>Actual results:</h2>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" lang="plaintext" v-pre="true" style="border-radius: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px; padding: 8px 12px; border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;"><code><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext">certtool --generate-privkey --sec-param high --outfile some.key</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">Generating a 3072 bit RSA private key...</span></code></pre>
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<a id="user-content-expected-results" class="anchor" href="#expected-results" aria-hidden="true"></a>Expected results:</h2>
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<pre class="code highlight js-syntax-highlight language-plaintext" lang="plaintext" v-pre="true" style="border-radius: 2px; margin: 0 0 8px; padding: 8px 12px; border: 1px solid #dbdbdb;"><code><span id="LC1" class="line" lang="plaintext">certtool --generate-privkey --sec-param high --outfile some.key</span>
<span id="LC2" class="line" lang="plaintext">Generating a 4096 bit RSA private key...</span></code></pre>
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