Maximum key pair size
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Maximum key pair size



FYI (and if I missed some FAQ about this issue, but I guess I havent been
very FAQ'ie with apache-ssl):

I'm the technical boy of a CA here in Spain (that is, I'm on the machine
that generates the certificates), and the other came to me a request from
a 4096-bit key. It seemed to me that the file was very big, but didnt give
it importance...

The certificate process went ok, and I sent it to the requesting party.

On the server side, there's no problem on accepting that key-certificate
pair, but several browsers have problems with it. He tried MSIE 3.x, and
other flavors of Netscape Navigator (AIX, and other unices, dont know
exactly which).

Just a note :)

Jonathan.


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