Re: Unofficial Resease
Perry says:
Fine. However, you are, you realize, a fool. There is no point in building a house with 3 foot thick steel doors and walls made from paper. After 2^10 or 2^11 bits or so the key is no longer the weak link, and is not what people will attack since it no longer has a reasonable possibility of success. You are entitled to your opinions, of course.
Excuse me, What is your point. My 4096-bit rsa key is (last I looked 4096 == 2^12) over your 2^10 or 2^11 estimate and thus NOT the weak link. Why would you want the rsa key to BE the weak link? After all the rsa key will decrypt all your messages and the IDEA key is for (1) message only. -tom
Those who didn't understand my point the first thirty times I made it aren't going to learn now. Anyone who cares to discuss this individual's Idee Fixe on keysize (shall we call such people "size queens" from now on?) can do so with me in private mail. Tom Rollins says:
Perry says:
Fine. However, you are, you realize, a fool. There is no point in building a house with 3 foot thick steel doors and walls made from paper. After 2^10 or 2^11 bits or so the key is no longer the weak link, and is not what people will attack since it no longer has a reasonable possibility of success. You are entitled to your opinions, of course.
Excuse me, What is your point. My 4096-bit rsa key is (last I looked 4096 == 2^12) over your 2^10 or 2^11 estimate and thus NOT the weak link. Why would you want the rsa key to BE the weak link? After all the rsa key will decrypt all your messages and the IDEA key is for (1) message only.
-tom
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