Private key size > 4096 - strange error message

tlussnig · January 6, 2016, 10:45pm

Yes there is an restriction to 4096 you can find the restrictions in

letsencrypt/boulder/blob/79fa5eed000af2ff34e3d90f87a77fef10fb0132/core/good_key.go

// Copyright 2014 ISRG.  All rights reserved
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.

package core

import (
	"crypto"
	"crypto/ecdsa"
	"crypto/rsa"
	"fmt"
	blog "github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/log"
	"math/big"
	"reflect"
	"sync"
)

// To generate, run: primes 2 752 | tr '\n' ,
var smallPrimeInts = []int64{

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Minimum size is 2048 and Maximum Size is 4096 and also some quality checks on the key.

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Private key size > 4096 - strange error message

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