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2048 is the RSA key size. 128 or 256 is the AES key size (or more generally the key size for the symmetric cipher). Nowadays the latter doesn't depend on the cert, but in the 90s it artificially did thanks to U.S. export policy. CAs still advertise as if we were stuck in the 90s.



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