On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:34:16PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > Along with about half of you I'm in CS 465 right now (Computer > Security), and since we're working on cryptography right now, I'm now > paranoid about the weakness of 1024 bit keys. It's pretty absurd that > that's the default, and a lot of poor gullible guys like me just went > along with it.
That's weird. I was under the impression that 1024-bit RSA key was pretty good. Has there been another recent breakthrough in factoring large numbers?? Phillip -- Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
