Eclipse SSH key generation - key strength

eclipse, rsa, ssh

Solution

I've raised a bug for this with the Eclipse team: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=404714

Problem

The Eclipse SSH key generation screen (General -> Network Connections -> SSH2) generates a 1024 bit RSA key, which is too weak to be used (http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/09/10/minimum-rsa-public-key-lengths-guidelines-or-rules.html) Is there a way to increase this to 2048 or 4096 bits? I know I could use `ssh-keygen` or puttygen but I'm trying to keep things simple for other developers.

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