Re: Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?

2003-10-30 Thread Bill Stewart
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. I think that's the source as well - when the most recent of the TWINKLE and TWIRL papers came out, Lucky

Re: Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?

2003-10-30 Thread Werner Koch
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

Q: Has a change taken place in factoring RSA keys?

2003-10-28 Thread Jim Choate
Hi, One of the local Linux user groups had a talk at their meeting as well as some extended discussion on the mailing list regarding RSA keys and factoring. 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