From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
Cc: 17660@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17660: 24.3; gnutls-min-prime-bits is 256
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 20:46:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r3w953hg.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2eswyoq.wl%jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> (Juliusz Chroboczek's message of "Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:23:49 +0200")
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr> writes:
> In gnutls.el, I see
>
> (defcustom gnutls-min-prime-bits 256
> ...)
>
> This uses 256 bits for Diffie-Helman rather than the gnutls default, which
> seems awfully low to me.
>
> It looks like this was lowered due to bug#11267. I suggest that it really
> should be set to a reasonable value.
In Emacs 25, people who want higher security can use the Network
Security Manager to achieve this, so I think the default here is
reasonable. Closing.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-01 13:23 bug#17660: 24.3; gnutls-min-prime-bits is 256 Juliusz Chroboczek
2014-06-05 14:30 ` Ted Zlatanov
2014-12-08 19:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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