17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
The number of randomly selected 768 bit primes that you would need for a reasonable chance of a birthday collision is 1.708E104
True however the current mechanism of generating PGP keys which consists primarily of pseudo-randomly pounding on a keyboard is hardly "truely random. Have no idea of the true number but expect it to be significantly less than that quoted above, even for a 1024 bit key like mine. Warmly, Padgett