On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 07:41:32PM +0400, Antony Uspensky wrote:

> Problem description:
> 
> Trying to use 4096 bit RSA keys I get a error in SSL_accept ():
> 
> error:1408E098:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_MESSAGE:excessive message size
> 
> The error is signaled only if RSA key length is more then ~3500 bits
> (3072 bit keys are still OK).


> #0  ssl3_get_message (s=0x80e39f8,
>                       st1=8592 (SSL3_ST_SR_KEY_EXCH_A),
>                       stn=8593 (SSL3_ST_SR_KEY_EXCH_B),
>                       mt=16 (SSL3_MT_CLIENT_KEY_EXCHANGE),
>                       max=400,
>                       ok=0xbfff757c) at s3_both.c:415


Thanks for the report.  Actually, in the development tree, the maximum
accepted size for client key exchange messages has been increased to
2048 quite some time ago.  I don't know why I did not change it for
0.9.6a and 0.9.6b too.  The next release will use 2048, be it
0.9.6c or 0.9.7.


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