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> Could someone help me understand why we're not dramatically ramping up key sizes across the board on all encryption? Not as a solution, but as a buy-some-time measure.

I am acutely aware that there are SOME places where software only supports RSA and only supports up to 1024-bit or 2048-bit keys, and that is a legal requirement. Ramping up key sizes would be great but even 2048-bit keys aren't quite secure against certain kinds of actors (even disregarding hammer-to-head style of attacks)

> Even simple things like forcing TLS 1.3 instead of 1.2 from client side breaks things

... kind've a case in point about the pace of required improvements.



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