Re: 128bit RSA public key - time to break?

From: Michael Amling (nospam@nospam.com)
Date: 02/25/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 21:44:25 -0600
From: Michael Amling <nospam@nospam.com>

Roger Schlafly wrote:
> "Michael Amling" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote
>
>>Robert Harley wrote:
>>
>>>A reasonable estimate is that 128-bit ECC would take 1 million years
>>>to break on one PC, which fits your constraints.
>>
>> Does that one million years assume Moore's law is repealed?
>
> It is safe to say that Moore's law will not last for 1 million years!
> Maybe 10 years.

   After ten years of Moore's law, that million years is down to 10,000
years or so. After 30 years of Moore's law, the one million years ...
has come to pass!

--Mike Amling

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