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So 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

So 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 ago
Some 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.