[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Cryptography Key Length

[David Stanaway]

Unless there is a cryptographic flaw that is known about by one of those
organizations ...

Tried wepcrack?


Steve Baker wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
> 
>> Rats, I was reading an article on the Web yesterday where there was a 
>> warning about 1024 bit keys becoming insecure in a few years.  Did I 
>> bookmark or otherwise note it's location?  Of course not!
> 
> It was on Slashdot a few days ago - but they hadn't succeeded in 
> breaking 1024 bit encryption - they'd used three large
> cluster-computers to factor JUST ONE 1024 bit number - taking
> eleven months to do it! (THey said it was "A Century of Computer
> Time")
> 
> OK - so that means that maybe two or three agencies in the entire
> world could decrypt just one email at a time - taking almost
> a year to do it and using a bunch of the fastest machines
> imaginable to run it on!
> 
> If that makes you worry - I'd like to know what it is you've done
> to make you think that one of your messages might be that important!
> 
> Even with Moore's law speeding up that process by a factor of
> two every 18 months, it's going to take an awful lot of those
> doublings before we have to be concerned about this as a practical
> matter.
> 
> The article is here:
> 
>    http://actualites.epfl.ch/presseinfo-com?id=441
> 
> 
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