Hi, One of the local Linux user groups had a talk at their meeting as well as some extended discussion on the mailing list regarding RSA keys and factoring.
In particular a claim was made that recent technology has come to light that allows factoring of 1024 bit RSA keys at $1B (US)/day. The basic gist was that they were claiming that 1024 keys were no longer reasonable outside of a life time of approx. a year. That 2048 keys were by extension weaker, and that larger keys should be the norm. There was some discussion about hacking GPG to generate 8k keys. I'm wondering if anyone might comment on this with regard to sources of info or other efforts? In particular I'm interested in any leads regarding this supposed hardware breakthrough. I spent about an hour googling around and didn't really come up with anything substantial. Thanks. -- -- Open Forge, LLC 24/365 Onsite Support for PCs, Networks, & Game Consoles 512-695-4126 (Austin, Tx.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] irc.open-forge.com Hangar 18 Open Source Distributed Computing Using Plan 9 & Linux 512-451-7087 http://open-forge.org/hangar18 irc.open-forge.org James Choate 512-451-7087 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
