CA5385: Use Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm with sufficient key size

Property	Value
Rule ID	CA5385
Title	Use Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm with sufficient key size
Category	Security
Fix is breaking or non-breaking	Non-breaking
Enabled by default in .NET 9	No

Cause

Using asymmetric encryption algorithm RSA with key size less than 2048 in one of the following ways:

Instantiating any descendant classes of System.Security.Cryptography.RSA and specifying the KeySize parameter as less than 2048.
Returning any object whose type is descendant of System.Security.Cryptography.RSA.
Using System.Security.Cryptography.AsymmetricAlgorithm.Create without parameter which would create RSA with the default key size 1024.
Using System.Security.Cryptography.AsymmetricAlgorithm.Create and specifying the algName parameter as RSA with the default key size 1024.
Using System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoConfig.CreateFromName and specifying the name parameter as RSA with the default key size 1024.
Using System.Security.Cryptography.CryptoConfig.CreateFromName and specifying the name parameter as RSA and specifying the key size as smaller than 2048 explicitly by args.

An RSA key smaller than 2048 bits is more vulnerable to brute force attacks.

Switch to an RSA with at least 2048 key size, ECDH or ECDsa algorithm instead.

It is not recommended to suppress this rule unless for compatibility with legacy applications and data.

If you just want to suppress a single violation, add preprocessor directives to your source file to disable and then re-enable the rule.

#pragma warning disable CA5385
// The code that's violating the rule is on this line.
#pragma warning restore CA5385

To disable the rule for a file, folder, or project, set its severity to none in the configuration file.

ini

[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.CA5385.severity = none

The following code snippet illustrates the pattern detected by this rule.

Violation:

using System.Security.Cryptography;

class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
        RSACng rsaCng = new RSACng(1024);
    }
}

Solution:

using System.Security.Cryptography;

class ExampleClass
{
    public void ExampleMethod()
    {
        RSACng rsaCng = new RSACng(2048);
    }
}