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On 10/04/2011 03:02 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> In the meantime, at least one reason came up in parallel discussion ... a 
> lot of people have those oldish keys generated as 1024bit or so, and using 
> DSA.
> 
> And it seems like 4096/RSA is sort of required here.
> 

If nothing else it should be considered modern practice.

	-hpa

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