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Have you tried using a key

Have you tried using a key of say.. 5003 bits? ssh-keygen generates this just fine, but iirc it did not work to login using this key..(and it is a lot faster to generate&test this, than to generate...

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RSA key sizes

Yes, I've tried various key sizes which are not a power of two (and they work), as well as key sizes which are odd numbers (which also work). I don't know any reason not to use "non-standard" key...

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Non-standard key sizes

It may be useful to avoid non standard key sizes in case of another vulnerability in the key-generating code. Many people (relatively) quickly generated all the (weak) keys of the standard sizes after...

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