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 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 cryptography@metzdowd.c

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 wrote: > On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andy Steingruebl 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 Mozilla and Google implementi

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

2013-09-05 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Andy Steingruebl wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andy Steingruebl wrote: >> >> > As of Jan-2014 CAs are forbidden from issuing/signing anything less >> than 2048 certs. >> >> For some value of "forbidde

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 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 even has

[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. G