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

[Jeffrey I. Schiller]

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On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 03:09:31PM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> Google recently switched to 2048 bit keys; hardly any other sites
> have done so, and some older software even has trouble talking to
> Google as a result.

Btw. As a random side-note. Google switched to 2048 bit RSA keys on
their search engine. However my connection to mail.google.com is using
a NIST p256r1 ECC key in its certificate.

- -Jeff
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