Re: trivial PR: double the key length of self-signed cert in ncat #1310
David Fifield <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Aug 2018 20:11:50 -0600
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Adrian Vollmer wrote: > as per the contributor guidelines I'm letting you know that I > submitted a PR on Github. It's a trivial change, doubling the key > length of the private key that is generated when you use '--ssl' in > ncat without specifying your own key and certificate. > > In the latest version of Debian Unstable, OpenSSL does not accept > certificates using such a short key of 1024 bit. So I suggest making > it 2048. > > https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1310 Looks good to me. The world has advanced since 2009 and r13218 when I decided to set it to 1024 :) _______________________________________________ Sent through the dev mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/dev Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/