On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> Apparently not closely enough. In the first link, the sentence "I
> have long believed that a 1024-bit key could fall to a machine
> costing $1 billion" should give you an indication of the strength of
> the default key size. If you have adversaries who want to spend $1
> billion to break your key, you probably have spent the time to do a
> security analysis of your machine and have already changed your keys
> to something longer.

Well, if I have adversaries with a billion bucks, they'll spend a
lot less than that to get to my data through other means.

Probably they should just come to me with a couple million, and
I'll sell it to 'em. :-)

cjs
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