Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)

From: Karsten W. Rohrbach (karsten@rohrbach.de)
Date: 08/29/02 

Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:38:58 +0200
From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>

Perry E. Metzger(perry@piermont.com)@2002.08.29 10:15:34 +0000:
>
> "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.

http://rcc.lanl.gov/index.php as a starting point. screw moores law, if
the problem can be parallelized. ;-)

regards,
/k 

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