Chris Vest on Nostr: Reminder to programmers who occasionally needs to generate an X.509 certificate (e.g. ...
Reminder to programmers who occasionally needs to generate an X.509 certificate (e.g. for SSH, for signing commits, emails, for GitHub, etc):
Don't use RSA, unless you need to for some specific compatibility reason.
Use EC-P 256 or Ed25519, instead. They're safer, faster, smaller.
Published at
2024-02-24 00:32:54Event JSON
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