[117477] in Cypherpunks
[edited] NSA key related comment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Fri Sep 3 21:03:36 1999
From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
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Hi,
I've edited the following submission to the SSZ mailing list. It contains
the 'bad word of majordomo'... s u b s c r i b e
I've chosen to include the headers for completeness.
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Subject: Re: NSA key in MSFT Crypto API
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
> you could look up the asymptotic complexity formula and see what it
> predicts for 1024 bit number factorization (155 digit = 512 bit). I'm
> sure it would look as hopeless today as RSA-155 looked in the late
> 70's. I mention that because I don't doubt there will be improvements
> to the state of the art. But I don't s u b s c r i b e to the notion that
> mathematicians at the NSA are 20 years ahead of active academic
> research.
Asymptotically speaking, using current algorithms, a 1024 bit number
should be about 2 million times harder than a 512 bit number. A 2048
bit number should be about 1000 million (American billion) times harder
than a 1024 bit number. These numbers are +/- a couple factors of two.
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