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Re: [ietf-dkim] New Issue: 512 too short?

2006-03-17 09:51:29
Security AD Advice

512-bit RSA keys are too short. They may be acceptable when the crypto period is very short (say a week). I cannot envision most administrators accepting the management burden associated with such short crypto periods.

Proposed text:
Since short RSA keys are susceptible off-line attacks, signers MUST use RSA keys of at least 1024 bits for long-lived keys. Receivers MUST be able to validate signatures with keys ranging from 512 bits to 2048 bits, and they MAY be able to validate signatures with larger keys. Security policies may use the length of the signing key as one metric for determining whether a signature is acceptable.

Russ

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