This link was posted to the apache-ssl mailing list but I thought it might be of interest to people here too.... http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/02encr.html Snips from the article: In a paper to be presented Tuesday in Prague, the computer scientist, Adi Shamir, (the S in RSA) one of the world's foremost cryptographers, will describe a machine, not yet built, that could vastly improve the ability of code breakers to decipher codes thought to be unbreakable in practical terms. Researchers said that if his machine worked it would mean that cryptographic systems with keys of 512 bits or less -- that is, keys less than about 150 digits long -- would be vulnerable in the future, an exposure that would have seemed unthinkable only five years ago. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
