17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
FutureNerd Steve Witham says:
If that rate of speedup held long term, and no significantly better factoring algorithms showed up, it would be 60 years until a 1024 bit number were as easy to factor as RSA129 was this year.
That cuts it rather close for some applications. Consider that a constant factor of a few thousand is easy if a really good new factoring algorithm shows up. If you are concerned that no one be able to read your messages for the next twenty years, you have trouble. Perry