Bill Stewart <bill.stew...@pobox.com> writes: > Basically, 2048's safe with current hardware > until we get some radical breakthrough > like P==NP or useful quantum computers, > and if we develop hardware radical enough to > use a significant fraction of the solar output, > we'll probably find it much easier to eavesdrop > on the computers we're trying to attack than to > crack the crypto.
Another breakthrough in integer factoring could be sufficient for an attack on RSA-2048. Given the number of increasingly efficient integer factorization algorithms that have been discovered throughout history, another breakthrough here seems more natural than unlikely to me. /Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
