I was alerted to some slides from a talk that Dan Bernstein gave a few days ago at the University of Montreal on what tools will be needed to factor 1024 bit numbers:
http://cr.yp.to/talks/2010.04.16/slides.pdf It has been a couple of years since there has been serious discussion on the list on this topic, and especially in the light of various technical decisions being undertaken on the size of DNS signing keys for high valued zones (like root), I was curious as to whether anyone had any interesting comments on the state of the art in factorization. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [email protected]
