OpenSSL certificates and key sizes

[John Abreau]

I'm preparing to create my own CA, and I was wondering what the 
practical limits are for key sizes. I believe the default for openssl is 
1024 bits.

Are there any problems with making the keys, particularly the CA key, 
something like 4096 bits long? How about 8192 bits long?


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