openssh unix dev - Nov 2020 - maths

moduli-gen/Makefile: 7 Kibit are 7168, not 7680

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
15:41?<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld
:-)

On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 at 09:00, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de>
wrote:
> moduli-gen/Makefile: 7 Kibit are 7168, not 7680
It's 7680 because that's the size recommended in NIST Special
Publication 800-57 for security equivalent to 192 bits of symmetric
cipher.  See the comments at
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/dh.c#L473

-- 
Darren Tucker (dtucker at dtucker.net)
GPG key 11EAA6FA / A86E 3E07 5B19 5880 E860  37F4 9357 ECEF 11EA A6FA (new)
    Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience
usually comes from bad judgement.