[guardian-dev] pgp, nsa, rsa

Daniel McCarney daniel at binaryparadox.net
Fri Sep 6 21:36:07 EDT 2013


On 07/09, Natanael wrote:
> The short answer is factoring speedups. Take a look at the archive I
> linked to for a bit more details.

This has interesting implications in the Android space if true.

RSA 1024 was the default in the Java 6x impl. of keytool[1] and many devs
have released APKs signed with such keys. It is non-trivial to change signing
keys with an established userbase without data-loss.

- Daniel

[1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/keytool.html
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