Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)

From: Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Date: 08/29/02 

To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:15:34 -0400

"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes:
> tracking the evolution of computing machinery nowadays, implementing
> cryptanalysis in hardware becomes cheaper and faster at an amazing
> speed. my wild guess is, that through the upcoming broad availability of
> software programmable hardware that is available today, attacks to
> crypto in general will become very cheap in a timeframe of months.

If you can attack 1024 bit keys cheaply a few months from now, please
let us know. Where I live, Moore's law still observes things double
every 18 months, not every 18 hours.

Perry

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