Tracy R Reed wrote: > On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:59:17AM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV spake thusly: > > Wait ten years, and you have 100 times the computing power from when > > your key was made. 2**(10*12/18) = 101.59. Are you certain you want that > > kind of power pointed at your secret key? > > A hundred times the computing power is still not match for a 4096 bit key.
Great. Your key is one fourth that: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]% gpg --list-key 961502AD pub 1024D/961502AD 1999-01-21 Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/0E66BD19 1999-01-21 Since each bit makes it twice as difficult, and we are talking a difference of 3072 bits, that means to attack your key it is merely 58096059953699580628595025333045743706869751763628952366614861522872\ 03730997110225737336044533118407251326157754980517443990529594540047\ 12166288567218703240103211163970644049884404985098905162720024476580\ 70418123947296805400241048279765843693815222923612087790447698927432\ 25751738076979568811309579125511333093243519553784816306381580161860\ 20024749256844815024251530444957718760413642873858099017255157393414\ 62558303664059150008696437320532185668325452911079037228316341385995\ 86406690325959725187447169059540805012310209639011750748760017095360\ 73423494575741627299485601330861695852995830467763701918159408852834\ 50612858638982717634572948835466388795543116154464463301992543823400\ 16292057090751175533888161918987295591531536698701292267685465517437\ 91579082315484463478026010289171803249539607504189948551381112697730\ 74789690748570437107161501213159220245567592412390131529197109564684\ 06379442914941614357107914462567329693696 times easier to attack your key than the 4096 bit key you referred to earlier. Guestimates on timeline before that is cracked? -john (SLB) 5.81 * 10^528. I may be off by a factor of 10. -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
