[guardian-dev] pgp, nsa, rsa

[Lee Azzarello]

Why is RSA 1024 bits broken?

-lee

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Natanael <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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