Re: [Operators] Diffie-Hellman: 2k or 4k keys?

2015-11-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On 24 Nov 2015 11:09 pm, "Arsimael Inshan" wrote: > > Hi there. > > When I created the DH Keys on my server, I generated 2k and 4k keys. I was told the 4k keys shouldn't be used (yet) because of incompartibillities and they wouldn't increase the security this much, but generate way more problems.

Re: [Operators] Diffie-Hellman: 2k or 4k keys?

2015-11-26 Thread Sam Whited
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Arsimael Inshan wrote: > Is this still the state of the art? Shall I stick with 2k or is it > recommendet to switch to 4K Keys? As far as I'm aware, 2k keys are still considered perfectly secure and are recommended for the forseeable future. Increasing key length

Re: [Operators] Diffie-Hellman: 2k or 4k keys?

2015-11-25 Thread Luis G.F
A year ago i open a bug with tigase. The problem is that until java >= 1.8 DH-params greater than 2048 make connections with java-thins impossible. El 2015-11-25 10:26, Mathias Ertl escribió: > Hi Arsimael, > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:09:00AM +0100, Arsimael Inshan wrote: > >> When I cr

Re: [Operators] Diffie-Hellman: 2k or 4k keys?

2015-11-25 Thread Mathias Ertl
Hi Arsimael, On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:09:00AM +0100, Arsimael Inshan wrote: > When I created the DH Keys on my server, I generated 2k and 4k keys. > I was told the 4k keys shouldn't be used (yet) because of > incompartibillities and they wouldn't increase the security this > much, but generate w

[Operators] Diffie-Hellman: 2k or 4k keys?

2015-11-24 Thread Arsimael Inshan
Hi there. When I created the DH Keys on my server, I generated 2k and 4k keys. I was told the 4k keys shouldn't be used (yet) because of incompartibillities and they wouldn't increase the security this much, but generate way more problems. Is this still the state of the art? Shall I stick wi