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RSA Key Length of 4096 is not supported in ONTAP when FIPS is enabled

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Applies to

ONTAP 9.10 and earlier

Issue

Installing or creating a certificate with RSA key length of 4096 fails with error:
 
Error: command failed: Specified key size is not supported in FIPS mode
 
 
Example:
 
Cluster::*> cert create -common-name test -type client -size ?
(security certificate create)
2048
3072
4096
 
Cluster::*> cert create -common-name test -type client -size 4096
(security certificate create)
 
Error: command failed: Specified key size is not supported in FIPS mode
 

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