Benjamin Scott wrote: > This was just reposted to the isp-security mailing list. I know there are > some crypto-heads on this list; anyone have more information? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lucky Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 8:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise
I wish people would stop this already.... DJB wrote his paper a while ago, and every couple of weeks, someone takes it as gospel and reposts it. Read Bruce Schneier's response, which, IMNSHO *IS* gospel when it comes to crypto, in cryptogram available at: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0203.html#6 . Berstein takes some serious liberty in his assertions. Basically, in order for the factoring speed increases that Bernstein asserts as truth to have any noticable effect, the key size would have to be exponentially larger than the keys available today. Bernstein himself says in the paper that the factoring advantages that he proposes do not specifically apply to smaller keys that are common today (4096 and under). C-Ya, Kenny -- --------------------------------------------------- Kenneth E. Lussier Geek by nature, Linux by choice PGP KeyID C0D2BA57 Public key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC0D2BA57 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
