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Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations

Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 18 September 2013 09:32 UTC

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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:32:25 +0300
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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-sheffer-tls-bcp: DH recommendations
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Hi Peter,

Please see the later discussion, in particular 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg09924.html.

Thanks,
	Yaron

On 09/18/2013 12:23 PM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> We would like to recommend using 2048-bit DH by both client and server
>
> Why 2048?  It's completely unnecessary, all it's going to do is discourage use
> of PFS suites.
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> Peter.
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