[Cryptography] Google's Public Key Size (was Re: NSA and cryptanalysis)

Andy Steingruebl steingra at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 18:58:21 EDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org> wrote:

> On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andy Steingruebl <steingra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As of Jan-2014 CAs are forbidden from issuing/signing anything less than
> 2048 certs.
>
> For some value of "forbidden". :-)
>

This is why you're seeing Mozilla and Google implementing these checks for
compliance with the CABF Basic Requirements in  code....

- Andy
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