Benchmarking RSA Key Generation

RSA key generation is both conceptually simple, and one of the worst implementation tasks of the field of cryptography engineering. Even benchmarking it is tricky, and involves some math: here’s how we generated a stable but representative “average case” instead of using the ordinary statistical...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: SSL certificate public key less than 2048 bit

One of the SSL certificates used by your SSL server contains a public key less than 2048 bit long. New Standard for SSL Certificates Industry standards set by the Certification Authority/Browser CA/B Forum require that certificates issued after January 1, 2014 MUST be at least 2048-bit key length...