"Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de> writes:
> tracking the evolution of computing machinery nowadays, implementing
> cryptanalysis in hardware becomes cheaper and faster at an amazing
> speed. my wild guess is, that through the upcoming broad availability of
> software programmable hardware that is available today, attacks to
> crypto in general will become very cheap in a timeframe of months.

If you can attack 1024 bit keys cheaply a few months from now, please
let us know. Where I live, Moore's law still observes things double
every 18 months, not every 18 hours.


Perry