Certicom? [...] [Fwd: NSA Turns To Commercial Software For Encryption]
Dr. Robert J. Harley
harley at argote.ch
Sun Oct 26 14:18:11 PST 2003
>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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