tech-security: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)

Subject: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd)
To: Karsten W. Rohrbach <karsten@rohrbach.de>
From: Dave Feustel <dfeustel@mindspring.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/29/2002 11:52:43

> > 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.

See _Cracking DES_

 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565925203/qid=1030639763/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-5391104-6813765?v=glance&s=books

for a (by now obsolete) low-cost home-brew system
for cracking DES. The available FPGA hardware has advanced
considerably since this book was written.