Duplicate of ticket #2354.
On Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 16:58:28 Daniel Kahn Gillmor via RT wrote:
The current default openssl.cnf appears to have default_bits = 1024:
http://cvs.openssl.org/fileview?f=openssl/apps/openssl.cnfv=1.23.4.6
however, NIST has recommended avoiding reliance on
The current default openssl.cnf appears to have default_bits = 1024:
http://cvs.openssl.org/fileview?f=openssl/apps/openssl.cnfv=1.23.4.6
however, NIST has recommended avoiding reliance on 1024-bit RSA keys
after 2010.
See pages 63-66 of: