On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:08:28 -0600 (CST), Jim Choate said:
In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The basic gist was that
Adi Shamir's TWINKLE, I guess.
time of approx. a year. That 2048 keys were by extension weaker, and that larger keys should be the norm. There was some discussion about hacking GPG to generate 8k keys.
That won't help unless you find a way to get random number as good as the keysize. The hack itself is trivial but I don't do it because large keys are a headache for low-end machines and they trick users into false security assumptions. I am pretty sure that any PC or usage of GnuPG can be broken by spending far less money. Werner -- Werner Koch <wk@gnupg.org> The GnuPG Experts http://g10code.com Free Software Foundation Europe http://fsfeurope.org