Hi,
  I have a question about temporary keys.
  Is it safe to pre-generate an RSA key and DH params for 
temporary key purposes and then use the same as long as
the server stays up. 
  What is a simple and secure policy for doing this?
The SSL spec says that you should ideally change the 
keys every few hundred connections. But in mod_ssl
2.4.2-1.3.9 it seems the server uses the same keys
throughout. For DH params (even though they are hard-coded)
it seems ok, as it generates a new key everytime during
the handshake, but for RSA it will keep using the same key
for each handshake. Using the same RSA key definitely cuts down
handshake time, but does that make it vulnerable to attacks?

Thanks,
Amit.
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