[Ti] Compromising Keychains?

b galahad9 at earthlink.net
Sat Mar 1 14:42:58 PST 2003


According to David Remahl:

>It is believed that a 1K RSA key will keep even the super computers 
>out for at least a few decades, given that the encryption method 
>itself isn't broken (or someone knows a backdoor). Usually the 
>password or passphrase is the weak link.
>
>/ Rgds, David

Think clusters, add in billions of computations a second, [even on a 
Mac]... toss in 'farms' of big 'clusters', and remind yourself that 
the 'decades' thing was accurate...back around PGP 3 days.

~flipper



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