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The free SSL certs are maximum 256bit keys. As pointed out in Cloudflare's blog post yesterday, a 2009-era PC could crack a 512bit SSL cert key in 73 days. Toda
by deanclatworthy 13y ago
The free SSL certs are maximum 256bit keys. As pointed out in Cloudflare's blog post yesterday, a 2009-era PC could crack a 512bit SSL cert key in 73 days. Todays machines would make mincemeat of such weak certs.
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- tokenizerrr 13y agoI'm confused. I thought StartSSL only supported 256 bit certs, and their website does mentioned that, but the linked article mentions generating a 2048 bit key which gets signed by StartSSL.