[guardian-dev] pgp, nsa, rsa

Natanael natanael.l at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 18:09:44 EDT 2013


Take a look at the Cryptography mailing list archive here:
http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/

In general, RSA 1024 bits seems broken, but RSA 2048 bits + seems to be strong.

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:06 AM, Tim Prepscius <timprepscius at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm reading of course, like everyone else is reading, that the NSA
> has broken SSL sockets.
>
> Does anyone have any further information on this?
> Does this mean RSA is dead?  Or does this mean the NSA is either
> forcing private keys to be revealed, or compromising certificate
> authorities?  Or does this mean specific implementations are faulty?
>
>
>
> Also, I have read a respected security expert in another news group
> claim that PGP is dead.
>
> Does anyone have any information about these two topics?
>
> -tim
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