GNU bug report logs - #17660
24.3; gnutls-min-prime-bits is 256

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>

Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 13:25:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: fixed, security

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 25.1

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch <at> pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; gnutls-min-prime-bits is 256
Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 15:23:49 +0200

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.

-- Juliusz
This bug report was last modified 10 years and 253 days ago.

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