From harley@argote.ch Fri Jul  6 02:38:25 2018
From: harley@argote.ch
To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org
Subject:
 Re: Certicom? [...] [Fwd: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For	Encryption]
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:38:25 +0000
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>Besides 4K-RSA + AES-256 + SHA-256 are all way way way stronger [...]

Amusing that you choose 4K-bit RSA.  Wasn't 2K supposedly to be total
overkill recently?  Actually wasn't 1K supposed to be overkill not
long ago?  Heck 768 seemed extravagant when everyone was on 512.
A mere 15 years ago, 320 bits was thought to be enough.  According to
my logs, here are the > 320-bit factorisations that I ran today:

  572972811505140538587970948254484718069 *
229535232834749685352787191218483748328512852024528924422553
  31051130972407042496629431420168004379 *
22580614860205576513432855281188300547296895576002618168141213
  1651123615682793488297475146389977666821 *
431607931720940152250713570720678507192603271368450344325511
  876748124621739787801748776119951008903 *
625940962036087307316308134093495176626898913441644936896711


A mere 15 years ago, 160-ish bits was thought to be enough for ECC.
Strangely, that's about 50 million times harder than the biggest
cases of ECC broken to date.

R

PS: Oops, another one while I was typing:

  4177340769425990287179093985822571 *
40278974418865128339952649479779348554858008977767026467354360871

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