NY Times article on Shamir's public key breaking machine

[Martin Minow]

<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/02encr.html>
gives a very superficial overview of a paper to be presented Tuesday
that describes a hardware attack on public key cryptography.

"Researchers said that if his machine worked it would mean that
cryptographic systems with keys of 512 bits or less -- that is, keys less
than about 150 digits long -- would be vulnerable in the future, an
exposure that would have seemed unthinkable only five years ago. The longer
1,024-bit keys that are available today would not be vulnerable at present."

Martin Minow
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