Re: crypto
Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Sep 2019 16:21:27 +0530
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On Sat, Sep 21, 2019 at 5:09 AM Ken Meltsner <[email protected]> wrote: Here's the real challenge. Take a well-known public key, e.g. the one > on the certificate for mail.google.com. It's only 256 bits (just > checked) and so, in theory, if their success in factoring is general > (and not the result of a carefully chosen composite value), they > should be able to factor it and generate the private key. Even if > they have a slightly successful method -- of the public keys from a > thousand or so of the top web sites, 1% of the private keys can be > generated -- I'd count that as a significant step forward (and a scary > one). > The google public key is an ECC one, though. The claim is for RSA, no? Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork