Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:29:33 -0500 From: "Dave Feustel" <dfeustel@mindspring.com> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, "Petr Swedock" <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, <mipam@ibb.net>, "Matthias Buelow" <mkb@mukappabeta.de>, "Stefan Krüger" <skrueger@europe.com>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>, <tech-security@netbsd.org>, <misc@openbsd.org> Subject: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd) Message-ID: <000a01c24f68$803cb350$2492ee41@dafco6w9sb81bw> References: <20020828200748.90964.qmail@mail.com> <3D6D3953.6090005@mukappabeta.de> <20020828224330.GE249@localhost> <87k7mamc2s.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <20020829091232.A53344@mail.webmonster.de> <87bs7ln66u.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <86hehdbvsb.fsf@blade-runner.mit.edu>
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And this analysis doesn't even take into account remote viewing :-). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Petr Swedock" <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>; <mipam@ibb.net>; "Matthias Buelow" <mkb@mukappabeta.de>; "Stefan Krüger" <skrueger@europe.com>; <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>; <tech-security@netbsd.org>; <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 9:10 AM Subject: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd) > "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes: > > > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes: > > > > I would have thought spending at least hundreds of millions off > > dollars and (as importantly) at least months of time would have been > > considered "unattractive" enough to encourage other methods of getting > > at your data like breaking in to your physical location. Silly me. I > > guess I missed the concept behind crypto. > > The concept behind crypto is to confuse, scramble and obfuscate. When > it was first designed for and employed in computers the existing > mathematical models, computer muscle and modes of analysis were > thought to assure unbreakability. Now the use has morphed into > a race condition where present mathematical models and future > computer muscle, coupled with existing modes of analysis are > thought to assure breakability. > > Peace, > > Petr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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