What's the easiest way to crack an RSA key?

[Peter Gutmann]

Answer: Use google.

http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews&func=showcontent&id=246 
yields just under *four thousand* OpenSSL private key files.  Admittedly some
of these are test keys, but it looks like many of them aren't.

(I doubt this is restricted to OpenSSL.  If there was a way to search for
 registry keys via Google, I'm sure we'd find a vast mass of IIS and whatnot
 keys as well).

Peter (thanks to anon for the info).


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