On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 03:15:33PM +0200, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 09:05 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:

> > > That's old version. New one 
> > > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy)
> > > is:
> > > Legacy: 767+
> > > default: 1023+
> > shouldn't this be 2047+ ?
> 
> If we do that then the applications that use these settings will be
> unable to talk to any servers that offer 1024 keys. Given the number of
> these servers that would be a good reason for applications not switching
> to this centrally managed configuration system. That is we'd have these
> settings as in a museum and no-one will be using them.

IMHO it should be part of the policy to create FUTURE class keys by
default even if a weaker security level is required to make future
transitions easier. Otherwise the amount of servers using weak keys will
not decrease.

Regards
Till
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