Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:38:58 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Cc: mipam@ibb.net, Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@europe.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, tech-security@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd) Message-ID: <20020829183858.A68055@mail.webmonster.de> In-Reply-To: <871y8hn43d.fsf@snark.piermont.com>; from perry@piermont.com on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:15:34AM -0400 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> <20020829155118.B63360@mail.webmonster.de> <871y8hn43d.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
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--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Perry E. Metzger(perry@piermont.com)@2002.08.29 10:15:34 +0000: >=20 > "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes: > > tracking the evolution of computing machinery nowadays, implementing > > cryptanalysis in hardware becomes cheaper and faster at an amazing > > speed. my wild guess is, that through the upcoming broad availability of > > software programmable hardware that is available today, attacks to > > crypto in general will become very cheap in a timeframe of months. >=20 > If you can attack 1024 bit keys cheaply a few months from now, please > let us know. Where I live, Moore's law still observes things double > every 18 months, not every 18 hours. http://rcc.lanl.gov/index.php as a starting point. screw moores law, if the problem can be parallelized. ;-) regards, /k --=20 > Obscenity is the crutch of inarticulate motherfuckers. WebMonster Community Project -- Reliable and quick since 1998 -- All on BSD http://www.webmonster.de/ - ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ - http://www.rohrbach.= de/ GnuPG: 0xDEC948A6 D/E BF11 83E8 84A1 F996 68B4 A113 B393 6BF4 DEC9 48A6 REVOKED: 0x2964BF46 D/E 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 REVOKED: 0x4C44DA59 RSA F9 A0 DF 91 74 07 6A 1C 5F 0B E0 6B 4D CD 8C 44 My mail is GnuPG signed - Unsigned ones might be bogus - http://www.gnupg.o= rg/ Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9bk4hs5Nr9N7JSKYRAi8EAKCW8Cg0g7SzXTpGgs5QQuchxif+QQCfUqu4 A748n9xT01St3vrds7Q4TrM= =9ayk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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