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@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Ciphers chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com,aes256-gcm@openssh.com,aes128-gcm@openssh.
 ```bash
 # RSA keys are favored over ECDSA keys when backward compatibility ''is required'',
 # thus, newly generated keys are always either ED25519 or RSA (NOT ECDSA or DSA).
-$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa_host_$(date +%Y-%m-%d) -C "Key to HOST for user-xyz"
+$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 8192 -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa_host_$(date +%Y-%m-%d) -C "Key to HOST for user-xyz"
 
 # ED25519 keys are favored over RSA keys when backward compatibility ''is not required''.
 # This is only compatible with OpenSSH 6.5+ and fixed-size (256 bytes).