Increase minimum recommended modulus size to 2048 bits
draft-lvelvindron-dh-group-exchange-00
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| Author | Loganaden Velvindron | ||
| Last updated | 2017-09-11 (Latest revision 2017-03-10) | ||
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Abstract
The Diffie-Hellman Group Exchange for the Secure Shell (SSH) Transport layer Protocol specifies that servers and clients should support groups with a modulus length of k bits, where the recommended minumum value is 1024 bits. Recent security research has shown that a minimum value of 1024 bits is insufficient against state-sponsored actors. As such, this document formally updates RFC 4419 [RFC4419] such that the minimum recommended value for k is 2048 bits and the group size is 2048 bits at minimum.
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