Re: [lamps] RSA Key Length in draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 30 July 2021 15:32 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, LAMPS WG <spasm@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [lamps] RSA Key Length in draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates
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Subject: Re: [lamps] RSA Key Length in draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates
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>   draft-ietf-lamps-cmp-updates defines id-regCtrl-rsaKeyLen as:

          RsaKeyLenCtrl ::= INTEGER

    At a minimum, I think we need to make this a positive integer.

Agreed.  And speaking of minimums:

>    I see that other groups are pushing for bigger minimum key sizes for RSA and D-H.

If we can avoid saying anything about this, that would probably be easiest.