Fwd: [Help-gnutls] Re: Diffie Hellman size?
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
nmav at gnutls.org
Tue Apr 15 14:13:47 CEST 2008
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> I asked Peter Gutmann about this, who recently posted some mathematical
> limits he used in:
>
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.smime/6175
>
> His response is below. So there seems to be good reasons why we
> shouldn't allow too small DH prime modulus. Although I'd prefer if this
> were a bit better documented.
We also have this:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/manual/html_node/Selecting-cryptographic-key-sizes.html#Selecting-cryptographic-key-sizes
The values apply to DH parameters as well.
regards,
Nikos
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