[46331] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Barnett)
Mon Mar 25 21:35:11 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 21:34:28 -0500
From: Brad Barnett <bbarnett@L8R.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:05:53 -0800 (PST)
Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net> wrote:
>
> A machine that costs $2 billion today, according to Moore's law, will
> cost about $200,000 20 years from now. Not counting inflation. That will
> be well within many people's budgets.
>
Hmm. Something very interesting about that, is the fact that someone
could basically just dump tons of data to a hard drive, and have it
available when they could afford to decode it.
Some information is definitely quite valuable even five years down the
road.
