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

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Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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