1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise

[Bill Stewart]

At 05:38 PM 03/23/2002 -0800, Lucky Green wrote:
>While the latter doesn't warrant comment, one question to ask
>spokespersons pitching the former is "what key size is the majority of
>your customers using with your security product"? Having worked in this
>industry for over a decade, I can state without qualification that
>anybody other than perhaps some of the HSM vendors would be misinformed
>if they claimed that the majority - or even a sizable minority - of
>their customers have deployed key sizes larger than 1024-bits through
>their organization. Which is not surprising, since many vendor offerings
>fail to support larger keys.

While SSL implementations are mostly 1024 bits these days,
aren't PGP Diffie-Hellman keys usually 1536 bits?



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