2048-bit RSA keys

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Tue Aug 17 21:18:57 EDT 2010


On Tue, 17 Aug 2010, Steven Bellovin wrote:

> They also suggest that a 3-4 year phase-out of 1024-bit moduli is the proper course.

Note that this is because they take into consideration that secrets have
to be unbreakable for decade(s), which is not the case for all uses of
RSA. For example in DNSSEC, a key can be rolled in a matter of hours
or days.

Paul

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