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Article #2819Re: PGP/RSA - Sidelnikov's appreciation (was: 800MHz )
From: Owen Lewis
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:53
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:53
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In article <1jna3cINNeed@roche.csl.sri.com> boucher@csl.sri.com writes: >He made a similar table for RSA keys: > > DATE >BUDGET | 1993 2003 2013 > -------|------|------|------ > $25K | 400 | 450 | 550 > -------|------|------|----- > $25M | 600 | 700 | 850 > -------|------|------|----- > $25G | 900 | 1050 | 1200 > >So, 512-bit RSA keys aren't looking so great anymore. 1024-bit >keys seem barely adequate in this light. 2K- to 3K-bit RSA keys >seem prudent to protect any data that you are seriously >concerned might be attacked by a big-budget ($25G) enemy. Despite the difficult English, there was an almost Germanic finality in the 'Academician Dr Sidelnikov' article when he made (basically) the same point in regard to PGP. On that point, one had the clear impression that the author was not saying what he believed might be true, but was saying what he knew as a fact. It will be interesting to see what follows in due course.
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt From: oml@eloka.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!eloka.demon.co.uk!oml Subject: Re: PGP/RSA - Sidelnikov's appreciation (was: 800MHz ) Distribution: world References: <1jna3cINNeed@roche.csl.sri.com> Organization: Eloka Consultancy & Project Management Reply-To: oml@eloka.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19) Lines: 23 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:53:06 +0000 Message-ID: <727732386snz@eloka.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk