[52960] in Cypherpunks
Re: PGP Crack???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Duvos)
Sat Mar 30 02:14:46 1996
From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 22:50:02 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960330050617.3fdf7540@tiac.net> from "Jim Byrd" at Mar 30, 96 00:06:17 am
> This just appeared in alt.security.pgp. Is there anything
> to it? I'm dubious.
Gee - Is it April 1st again? Time to troll the newbies in all
my favorite newsgroups.
On a more serious note, does anyone know what is happening
with Arjen Lenstra and RSA-130? Last I heard back in late
December, FAFNER, the magic WWW sieving dragon, had collected
more than enough relations from participants to yield a
factorization. Surely they have not spent an additional four
months crunching the big boolean matrix at CWI.
This is an important experiment, since it will yield a robust
estimate of the time required to break 512 bit PGP keys using
the best available factoring software.
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