Bug 1308574 - Support for 2048+ bits are missing under keygen tag
Summary: Support for 2048+ bits are missing under keygen tag
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: firefox
Version: 7.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Martin Stransky
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-15 14:25 UTC by Geetika Kapoor
Modified: 2016-02-15 20:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-02-15 20:42:38 UTC
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Description Geetika Kapoor 2016-02-15 14:25:12 UTC
Description of problem:

Currently with firefox 45(keygen tag),It only supports high grade(2048) and medium grade(1024 bits) .No support for 3072 or 4096 bits .This facility was there with crmf.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
 Firefox 45

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. It is seen with redhat certificate CA EE page.


Actual results:

2048+ bits is not supported while generating RSA keypair.
Expected results:

Ideally it should support 2048+ bits .
Additional info:

Comment 2 Asha Akkiangady 2016-02-15 20:42:38 UTC
Keygen feature has been deprecated from the web standards as per https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/keygen
All that Firefox (and others) support currently is 1024 (medium) and 2048 (high) for RSA. Hence closing this bug.


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