Date: 29 Aug 2002 10:29:38 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> To: Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu> Cc: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>, mipam@ibb.net, Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>, Stefan =?iso-8859-1?q?Kr=FCger?= <skrueger@europe.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-security@netbsd.org, misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: 1024 bit key considered insecure (sshd) Message-ID: <87wuq9lovh.fsf@snark.piermont.com> In-Reply-To: <86hehdbvsb.fsf@blade-runner.mit.edu> References: <20020828200748.90964.qmail@mail.com> <3D6D3953.6090005@mukappabeta.de> <20020828224330.GE249@localhost> <87k7mamc2s.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <20020829091232.A53344@mail.webmonster.de> <87bs7ln66u.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <86hehdbvsb.fsf@blade-runner.mit.edu>
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Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu> writes: > > I would have thought spending at least hundreds of millions off > > dollars and (as importantly) at least months of time would have been > > considered "unattractive" enough to encourage other methods of getting > > at your data like breaking in to your physical location. Silly me. I > > guess I missed the concept behind crypto. > > The concept behind crypto is to confuse, scramble and obfuscate. I'm glad you've explained it to me. > When it was first designed for and employed in computers the existing > mathematical models, computer muscle and modes of analysis were > thought to assure unbreakability. Now the use has morphed into > a race condition where present mathematical models and future > computer muscle, coupled with existing modes of analysis are > thought to assure breakability. So, this means that because a person with a billion in spare change lying about might (MIGHT!) be able to break a 1024 bit key every year, we should all panic? -- Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com -- "Ask not what your country can force other people to do for you..." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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