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A call for aid in cracking a 1024-bit malware key
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Jun 9 14:59:31 2008
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:59:54 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
According to
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9094818&intsrc=hm_list%3E%20&articleId=9094818&intsrc=hm_list
some new malware is encrypting files with a 1024-bit RSA key. Victims
are "asked" to pay a random to get their files decrypted. So -- can
the key be factored?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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