[46340] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Mon Mar 25 23:22:01 2002
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:21:29 -0500
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Len Sassaman <rabbi@quickie.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:05:21PM -0500, Deepak Jain wrote:
>
> That is a falicy. Moore's law is most certainly not accelerating -- in
> fact:
>
> 1965-1990 Moore's law stated that the number of transistors per square
> inch on integrated circuits (and therefore, the speed) doubles every 2
> years. The pace has since slowed down a bit, but appears to be holding
> steady at doubling every 18 months (1995-present).
Not to be too picky, but how is going from "doubling every 2 years" to
"doubling every 18 months" slowing down? :)
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
