MIN_RSA_KEYLEN compare goes wrong
Matt Johnston
matt at ucc.asn.au
Thu Oct 29 20:21:36 AWST 2020
Hi Hans,
Sorry I missed replying to this message a while ago.
What program created the key? As far as I can tell the test
is correct, the top bit might be unset?
Cheers,
Matt
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 07:36:26AM +0200, Hans Harder wrote:
> HI,
>
> I noticed that I got warnings that the RSA key was too short.
> Further investigation showed that I was using a 1024 bits RSA key but
> the mp_count_bits function return 1023 count (probably 0 based)
>
> in rsa.c it states: if (mp_count_bits(key->n) < MIN_RSA_KEYLEN)
>
> Is this intentional or should I just define the MIN_RSA_KEYLEN as
> 1023 instead of the 1024 now in sysoptions.h
>
> Hans
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