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My question is: Why are you trying to use RSA at all? It's 2019! I can't think of anyone who seriously recommends RSA anymore. Switch to elliptic curve cryptog
by CiPHPerCoder 7y ago
My question is: Why are you trying to use RSA at all?
It's 2019! I can't think of anyone who seriously recommends RSA anymore. Switch to elliptic curve cryptography, where footbullets like a 512-bit RSA key offer aren't even on the table.
- bromonkey 7y agoThis article was written years ago
- CiPHPerCoder 7y agoOh! It really should have [2017] in the title, then.
- recursive 7y ago> Why are you trying to use RSA at all? Probably because you have to use something, and it's not obvious which things have footbullets and which don't.
- CiPHPerCoder 7y agohttps://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-answers.html https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a... https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/06/libsodium-quick-reference-quick-comparison-similar-functions-and-which-one-use https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/06/libsodium-quick-reference... https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/bindings_for_other_languages https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/bindings_for_other_language... It's a lot easier in 2019 than it was years ago.
- x38iq84n 7y agoSometimes it is a necessity to accommodate for various networking gear as load balancers, wireless controllers etc as RSA may be the only thing that they support.