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My question is: Why are you trying to use RSA at all?

It's 2019! I can't think of anyone who seriously recommends RSA anymore. Switch to elliptic curve cryptography, where footbullets like a 512-bit RSA key offer aren't even on the table.



Sometimes it is a necessity to accommodate for various networking gear as load balancers, wireless controllers etc as RSA may be the only thing that they support.


> Why are you trying to use RSA at all?

Probably because you have to use something, and it's not obvious which things have footbullets and which don't.



This article was written years ago


Oh! It really should have [2017] in the title, then.




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