[guardian-dev] pgp, nsa, rsa

[Hans of Guardian]

Watch out! These days, talking like that makes you sound like you're an NSA mole ;-)

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/09/07/195241/john-gilmore-analyzes-nsa-obstruction-of-crypto-in-ipsec

.hc

On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Lee Azzarello wrote:

> The answer seems to be that there is a suspicious plausibility that RSA 1024 ciphertext may be recoverable.
> 
> To me this is not synonymous with broken.
> 
> -lee
> 
> On Sep 6, 2013 5:56 PM, "Natanael" <natanael.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> The short answer is factoring speedups. Take a look at the archive I
> linked to for a bit more details.
> 
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Lee Azzarello <lee at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> > 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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