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And where do the odd numbers come from? 1023 bits? 799 bits??
by pdw 11y ago
And where do the odd numbers come from? 1023 bits? 799 bits??
- benjojo12 11y agoSo this one is kinda fun. IIRC PuTTYGen had a bug in it for a very long time that you would ask for a 1024 key, and it would subtract a bit off it. You can see the same with 2047 keys in the data that I will be publishing on the next post.
- mortenlarsen 11y agoSome people use slightly odd key-sizes on purpose, in the hope of buying a little extra time in case something like the Debian OpenSSL bug happens again.
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- baby 11y agoSame kind of people who write 1338 instead of 1337, for the lulz