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authorDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-04-19 05:47:45 +0000
committerDarren Tucker <dtucker@cvs.openbsd.org>2019-04-19 05:47:45 +0000
commit58aa1123539f2e93ef5416dc984bf909e5b236fd (patch)
tree0f7df1279b0fc2741f5f7ebb8cf8f122ca1ceab8 /usr.bin/ssh
parent70373d86b578578f8eebf1c65b1224ee34e122cd (diff)
Document new default RSA key size. From sebastiaanlokhorst at gmail.com
via bz#2997.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ssh')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.18
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1 b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
index 124456577c4..f29774249bf 100644
--- a/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
+++ b/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-keygen.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.157 2019/03/05 16:17:12 naddy Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-keygen.1,v 1.158 2019/04/19 05:47:44 dtucker Exp $
.\"
.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 5 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 19 2019 $
.Dt SSH-KEYGEN 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -260,8 +260,8 @@ This option specifies the number of primality tests to perform.
Show the bubblebabble digest of specified private or public key file.
.It Fl b Ar bits
Specifies the number of bits in the key to create.
-For RSA keys, the minimum size is 1024 bits and the default is 2048 bits.
-Generally, 2048 bits is considered sufficient.
+For RSA keys, the minimum size is 1024 bits and the default is 3072 bits.
+Generally, 3072 bits is considered sufficient.
DSA keys must be exactly 1024 bits as specified by FIPS 186-2.
For ECDSA keys, the
.Fl b