[Cryptography] 1023 nails in the coffin of 1024 RSA...

Ben Laurie ben at links.org
Tue Oct 7 01:44:49 EDT 2014


On 6 October 2014 23:24, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2014-10-06 17:57:35 -0400 (-0400), Jan Schaumann wrote:
> [...]
>> @julianor tweeted:
>> "talked with @camicelli :isn't OpenSSL bug, he thought with enough
>> hardware he can make a list of every 512b prime.Demo's priv key was
>> known"
>> https://twitter.com/julianor/status/519230526029570048
>
> 2^512/ln(2^512) is still ~2^504 primes which would need to be found
> and stored. That's... a _lot_ of "hardware."

Oh, come on. Its only the number of atoms in the (observable) universe
... squared.


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