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Re: 2048-bit RSA keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arash Partow)
Mon Aug 16 15:00:13 2010
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:35:15 +1000
From: Arash Partow <arash@partow.net>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <p06240801c88e35cc87e9@[10.20.30.158]>
Paul Hoffman wrote:
> You are under the wrong impression, unless you are reading vastly different crypto literature than the rest of us are. RSA-1024 *might* be possible to break in public at some point in the next decade, and RSA-2048 is a few orders of magnitude harder than that.
>
Just out of curiosity, assuming the optimal use of today's best of breed factoring algorithms - will there be enough energy in our solar system to factorize a 2048-bit RSA integer?
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