Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:17:56 -0400 Noam Postavsky
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Can we bump gnutls-min-prime-bits to 1024 on the release branch? I
> know it has a reference to Bug#11267 which describes some mail
> server that works only with 256 bits primes, but surely people
> using such software can set the option themselves. I mean, a 256
> bit DH prime is just a toy example, not real crypto. It's
> inappropriate for yesterday's users. Even 1024 is probably a bit
> low, but at least it's something.

That's too low, but it is the minimum in all modern browsers.

Perry
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