On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:55:35PM +1200, Deane Sloan wrote: > Finally - how real is this concern? What is the probability that say a > 2048bit generated key could fall into the 32,767 keys in the metasploit > SSH example on unaffected systems?
32,768 = 2^15 number of 2048 bit keys: 2^2048 Probability that a "proper" key falls in the space of the "bad debian" keys: 2^15 / 2^2048 = 1 / 2^2033. That's a lot of zeros before the first non-zero digit. Y. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
