Nick Lamb <[email protected]> writes:

>Idea: What if we set aside a handful of keys of each sort, as examples,
>publicising that software should use *these* examples unless it has good
>reason to do otherwise ?

That's a great idea, publish a set of test keys in common sizes for RSA, DSA,
ECDSA, etc and every crypto library and application can hardwire them in as
their out-of-the-box keys, ensuring that people are forced to change them
after setup/install in order to get keys that are accepted outside the test
environment.

If there's general support for this, and no-one else wants to do it, I can run
up an RFC draft with a bunch of test keys formatted as C byte strings that
could be incorporated into anything in a C-like language with little more than
cut&paste.

Peter.

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