Re: Ubuntu and the default page

2014-03-19 Thread Robie Basak
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 07:41:22PM +0100, Arno Töll wrote: I'm not so sure what you're worried about. I am the author of that page, and I'm perfectly fine if you replace whatever statement you like to make it suitable to Ubuntu. Feel free to remove any mentioning of Debian if you think that's

Re: Bug#742145: openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation

2014-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Thorsten Glaser wrote: Florian Weimer dixit: Historically, the OpenSSL command line tools have been intended for debugging only. I disagree, in the case of genrsa and friends anyway. Me too, and openssl(1ssl) does not mention debugging or not for production use or give any warnings. Also,

Re: Bug#742145: openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation

2014-03-19 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Control: severity -1 normal Joey Hess dixit: Also, /usr/sbin/make-ssl-cert uses openssl req, and strace shows it also reading only 32 bytes bits of entropy. We talked a bit about it in IRC. I think this is no need to panic. While I still think that 32 bytes is cutting off a safety margin I’d

Re: Bug#742145: openssl: uses only 32 bytes (256 bit) for key generation

2014-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
The amount of seed material required to generate a cryptographic key equals the effective key size of the key. For example, a 3072-bit RSA or Diffie-Hellman private key has an effective key size of 128 bits (it requires about 2^128 operations to break) so a key