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

2013-09-05 Thread Andy Steingruebl
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hoffman paul.hoff...@vpnc.org wrote: On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andy Steingruebl stein...@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

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

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andy Steingruebl stein...@gmail.com wrote: As of Jan-2014 CAs are forbidden from issuing/signing anything less than 2048 certs. For some value of forbidden. :-) --Paul Hoffman ___ The cryptography mailing list

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

2013-09-04 Thread Andy Steingruebl
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Jeffrey I. Schiller j...@mit.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

2013-09-02 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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.