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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- From: oml@eloka.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!eloka.demon.co.uk!oml
- Subject: Re: PGP/RSA - Sidelnikov's appreciation (was: 800MHz )
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- References: <1jna3cINNeed@roche.csl.sri.com>
- Organization: Eloka Consultancy & Project Management
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:53:06 +0000
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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.
-