Re: [Cryptography] RSA equivalent key length/strength

2013-09-18 Thread Lucky Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-09-14 08:53, Peter Fairbrother wrote: I get that 1024 bits is about on the edge, about equivalent to 80 bits or a little less, and may be crackable either now or sometime soon. Moti Young and others wrote a book back in the 90's (or

Re: [Cryptography] IPv6 and IPSEC

2013-09-04 Thread Lucky Green
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:27:14PM -0700, Taral wrote: On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Lucky Green shamr...@cypherpunks.to wrote: In its cryptic explanation of the bounces, Google makes one thing clear: whatever reason they have to bounce the email, that reason only applies to IPv6. I

Re: [Cryptography] IPv6 and IPSEC

2013-09-03 Thread Lucky Green
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 06:09:15PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: For IPv4, that's a relatively normal way to do things, though if example.com is commercial, smtp.example.com might actually be a load-balanced bunch of servers in xx.yy.zz.0/24 instead of just one machine, or they might be hidden

Re: [Cryptography] IPv6 and IPSEC

2013-08-29 Thread Lucky Green
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 01:47:01PM -0400, Phill wrote: (This is the last week before school goes back which is stopping me getting to the big iron and my coding platform if folk are wondering where the code is). I had a discussion with some IETF types. Should I suggest a BOF in