Re: trivial PR: double the key length of self-signed cert in ncat #1310

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Adrian Vollmer wrote:
> as per the contributor guidelines I'm letting you know that I
> submitted a PR on Github. It's a trivial change, doubling the key
> length of the private key that is generated when you use '--ssl' in
> ncat without specifying your own key and certificate.
>
> In the latest version of Debian Unstable, OpenSSL does not accept
> certificates using such a short key of 1024 bit. So I suggest making
> it 2048.
>
> https://github.com/nmap/nmap/pull/1310

Looks good to me. The world has advanced since 2009 and r13218 when I
decided to set it to 1024 :)
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