> The enthusiast project Rob mentions is distributed.net. The 64-bit challenge
> took over four years. From their web page:

Ah, yes!  Thank you.  :)

> 107,559 days for 100% of the 72-bit keyspace. Given 50% as a best-guess
> estimation for a brute-force attack, your're looking at 147+ YEARS at the
> current rate to solve a single 72-bit key.

Yep.  This is close enough to 80-bit that I'm plenty comfortable telling
people "please don't use RSA-1024," but not so close that I think anyone
should be panicking.  :)


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