NIST considers 2048-bit keyed RSA encryption, properly implemented, to be secure until 2030.
2048-bit keyed RSA takes ~2.4b times as long to crack by brute force than 1024-bit. 3072-bit key implementations are already out there, and I am sure 4096-bit is already possible. On the jump from 1024 to 2048 bit keying - if you could break 1024-bit encryption in one second, 2048-bit would take something north of 70 years. The govt isn't saying "Hold my beer, we've got this" - they are asking companies to help them, because they acknowledge they can't do it themselves. On 18 Jun. 2017 6:20 pm, "Phillip Grasso" <phillip.gra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Back to something that might resemble a technical discussion. It comes > down to the scale they want to operate, I'd continue to argue it's an > economic scale cost. If they want to monitor people massively and probably > not just about the terrorhusts but general public, they do the B's stuff > like metadata collection etc, but if they had a targeted set of people they > wanted to watch, they could and they have the mechanisms today, they > probably way more than enough. Cracking encryption continues to be a > function of computing power, time, crypto research/backdoors. (E.g. spy > agencies probably knew of limited primes and other deficiencies with each > crypto, thereby significantly reducing keyspace and reducing computational > complexity / time. This however would be too complex for your regular > politician to understand, or care about. > > > > On Jun 18, 2017 11:13 AM, "Peter Tiggerdine" <ptiggerd...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > doesn't the election process fall under the checks and balance of > absolute power corrupts absolute? > Regards, > > Peter Tiggerdine > > GPG Fingerprint: 2A3F EA19 F6C2 93C1 411D 5AB2 D5A8 E8A8 0E74 6127 > > > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Robert Hudson <hud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 18 June 2017 at 08:36, Scott Weeks <sur...@mauigateway.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> --- new...@atdot.dotat.org wrote: > >> From: Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> > >> > >> Assuming bad faith is a key and essential part of > >> democracy: Give people powerful jobs, but never, > >> ever trust them to do them well. > >> ------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> Pffft! I'm going to plagiarize that. I hope you > >> don't mind! :) > >> > >> scott > >> > >> > >> ps. This is a troll, right? You can't actually > >> believe that! Right??? > > > > > > If we trusted them to do a good job, we wouldn't go through the election > > process every few years... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > AusNOG mailing list > > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > > >
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