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Re: Proposal for new DH Groups 6, 7, and 8



At 10:22 PM 2/4/00 -0800, Will Price wrote:
>There was much discussion at the recent bakeoff regarding DH prime
>lengths.  It was good to see that a number of people were implementing
>Group 5, and all but one vendor that I found anyway (who actually changed
>this during the bakeoff I believe) was doing at least Group 2.

You were lucky, then. Of the 41 companies who said they did certificates, 
only 15 said they did group 5.

This is not to say that we don't need bigger DH groups, just that we 
shouldn't be smug about our current state of affairs.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium



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