Setting default ECDSA size in ssh-keygen to 521.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/debian/patches/progress-linux/0003-ssh-keygen-default-ecdsa-size.patch b/debian/patches/progress-linux/0003-ssh-keygen-default-ecdsa-size.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad0bf6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/progress-linux/0003-ssh-keygen-default-ecdsa-size.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Author: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
+Description: Setting default ECDSA size in ssh-keygen to 521.
+
+diff -Naurp openssh.orig/ssh-keygen.1 openssh/ssh-keygen.1
+--- openssh.orig/ssh-keygen.1
++++ openssh/ssh-keygen.1
+@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ For ECDSA keys, the
+ flag determines the key length by selecting from one of three elliptic
+ curve sizes: 256, 384 or 521 bits.
+ Attempting to use bit lengths other than these three values for ECDSA keys
+-will fail.
++will fail and the default is 521 bits.
+ Ed25519 keys have a fixed length and the
+ .Fl b
+ flag will be ignored.
+diff -Naurp openssh.orig/ssh-keygen.c openssh/ssh-keygen.c
+--- openssh.orig/ssh-keygen.c
++++ openssh/ssh-keygen.c
+@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
+ /* Number of bits in the RSA/DSA key.  This value can be set on the command line. */
+ #define DEFAULT_BITS		4096
+ #define DEFAULT_BITS_DSA	1024
+-#define DEFAULT_BITS_ECDSA	256
++#define DEFAULT_BITS_ECDSA	521
+ u_int32_t bits = 0;
+ 
+ /*