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- From: jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk (James Hawtin)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Breaking RSA?
- Message-ID: <BznFDu.5uI@cs.bham.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 06:58:41 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Reply-To: jwh@cs.bham.ac.uk
- Organization: School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK
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- Ok so I understand now how the RSA system works, I am sure others have already asked
- but what is the best way to attack it?
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- Lets say we were encoding only using RSA and I can get the source to encode any number
- I like, and I know public key and modulus. What is the best line of attack? Getting it
- to encode numbers such as 2,4,8 etc?
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- Also how long are the predicted times to break keys such as 256 bit or 1024 bit?
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- James.
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