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Message-Id: <76804C86-B1DC-44C1-9CD8-65A9A3915EB7@shub-internet.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:27:44 -0500
From: Brad Knowles <brad@...b-internet.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Brad Knowles <brad@...b-internet.org>,
Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: Prime example of a can of worms
On Oct 19, 2015, at 11:16 PM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> for i in `seq 1 100`;
> do
> openssl dhparam 2048 -text >> $i
> done
>
> will generate 100 2048 bit primes. If you can ideally simply commit the
> files to the following github repo:
>
> https://github.com/RedHatProductSecurity/Diffie-Hellman-Primes/
PR filed to update code to generate 4096-bit primes as well.
I’m wondering if we might be able to take advantage of a larger-scale effort in this area, by using something akin to the @Home methods, but maybe generating large numbers of primes using a custom public AMI and some CloudFormation scripts?
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Brad Knowles <brad@...b-internet.org>
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