Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)

From: Dave Feustel (dfeustel@mindspring.com)
Date: 08/29/02 

From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:52:43 -0500

> > 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.

See _Cracking DES_

 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565925203/qid=1030639763/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5391104-6813765?v=glance&s=books<tech-security@netbsd.org>, <misc@openbsd.org>

for a (by now obsolete) low-cost home-brew system
for cracking DES. The available FPGA hardware has advanced
considerably since this book was written.

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