Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)

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

To: Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu>
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:29:38 -0400

Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu> writes:
> > I would have thought spending at least hundreds of millions off
> > dollars and (as importantly) at least months of time would have been
> > considered "unattractive" enough to encourage other methods of getting
> > at your data like breaking in to your physical location. Silly me. I
> > guess I missed the concept behind crypto.
>
> The concept behind crypto is to confuse, scramble and obfuscate.

I'm glad you've explained it to me.

> When it was first designed for and employed in computers the existing
> mathematical models, computer muscle and modes of analysis were
> thought to assure unbreakability. Now the use has morphed into
> a race condition where present mathematical models and future
> computer muscle, coupled with existing modes of analysis are
> thought to assure breakability.

So, this means that because a person with a billion in spare change
lying about might (MIGHT!) be able to break a 1024 bit key every year,
we should all panic? 

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com
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