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authorGeorg Schmidt <gs-develop@gs-sys.de>2018-05-31 01:42:39 +0200
committerDr. Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com>2018-06-05 18:08:01 +0200
commit0336df2fa316a3e08b8f0d2d0e8d4bc175e46634 (patch)
tree02fa8e84b24a147a48580777445f56f1dc12f1da /apps/req.c
parent630fe1da888490b7dfef3fe0928b813ddff5d51a (diff)
Issue warnings for large DSA and RSA keys
Issue a warning when generating DSA or RSA keys of size greater than OPENSSL_DSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS resp. OPENSSL_RSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS. Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <paul.dale@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Rich Salz <rsalz@openssl.org> Reviewed-by: Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre@ncp-e.com> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/6380)
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diff --git a/apps/req.c b/apps/req.c
index ca4b7ec891..59baa89bcf 100644
--- a/apps/req.c
+++ b/apps/req.c
@@ -517,6 +517,18 @@ int req_main(int argc, char **argv)
goto end;
}
+ if (pkey_type == EVP_PKEY_RSA && newkey > OPENSSL_RSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS)
+ BIO_printf(bio_err,
+ "Warning: It is not recommended to use more than %d bit for RSA keys.\n"
+ " Your key size is %ld! Larger key size may behave not as expected.\n",
+ OPENSSL_RSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS, newkey);
+
+ if (pkey_type == EVP_PKEY_DSA && newkey > OPENSSL_DSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS)
+ BIO_printf(bio_err,
+ "Warning: It is not recommended to use more than %d bit for DSA keys.\n"
+ " Your key size is %ld! Larger key size may behave not as expected.\n",
+ OPENSSL_DSA_MAX_MODULUS_BITS, newkey);
+
if (genctx == NULL) {
genctx = set_keygen_ctx(NULL, &pkey_type, &newkey,
&keyalgstr, gen_eng);