On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:08:28 -0600 (CST), Jim Choate said: > In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that > allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The basic gist was that
Adi Shamir's TWINKLE, I guess. > time of approx. a year. That 2048 keys were by extension weaker, and that > larger keys should be the norm. There was some discussion about hacking GPG to > generate 8k keys. That won't help unless you find a way to get random number as good as the keysize. The hack itself is trivial but I don't do it because large keys are a headache for low-end machines and they trick users into false security assumptions. I am pretty sure that any PC or usage of GnuPG can be broken by spending far less money. Werner -- Werner Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Free Software Foundation Europe http://fsfeurope.org
