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And to top it off, what size are his PGP signing keys? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/p
by AlyssaRowan 11y ago
And to top it off, what size are his PGP signing keys? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/keys.html
1024-bit RSA, and 1024-bit DSA.
Please see my comment earlier today about why that's Very Bad™ in the thread on the "Logjam" attack which shows that 1024-bit keys are too small for safe use now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9577998
Come on, Simon, I know you know better than that. It really is time to upgrade.
- sliverstorm 11y agoIt seems fairly clear that Simon isn't wildly motivated to stay on top of the ball here, and that's OK. Despite how many people seem to feel, he doesn't owe us anything. He released the software; we can take it, we can not take it.