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Factoring Breakthrough?

Posted by michael on from the for-as-long-as-men-are-capable-of-evil dept.

An anonymous reader sent in: "In this post to the Cryptography Mailing List, someone who knows more about math than I do claimed "effectively all PGP RSA keys shorter than 2k bits are insecure, and the 2kbit keys are not nearly as secure as we thought they were." Apparently Dan Bernstein of qmail fame figured out how to factor integers faster on the same cost hardware. Should we be revoking our keys and creating larger ones? Is this "the biggest news in crypto in the last decade," as the original poster claims, or only ginger-scale big?"

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  1. OT: Your sig by rjamestaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    God is real unless declared an integer.

    Orthodox Christians believe God is irrational (triune: an irrational number meaning 3 yet 1, 1 yet 3). Got Faith?

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    1. Re:OT: Your sig by namespan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Orthodox Christians believe God is irrational (triune: an irrational number meaning 3 yet 1, 1 yet 3). Got Faith?

      Or God could be complex.... (part real, part imaginary!).

      1+3i?
      3+1i?

      Or perhaps, some complex number which under different norms yields 3 and 1....

      :)

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    2. Re:OT: Your sig by Reikk · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      If God were all powerful, could he create a stone that he was not strong enough to break?

    3. Re:OT: Your sig by rjamestaylor · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      If God were all powerful, could he create a stone that he was not strong enough to break?

      Yes, but he'd probably try to break it over your head...

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  2. Re:For the PostScript-impaired by Unknown+Bovine+Group · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh. Heh. He said "rump-session".

    After that I didn't understand much....

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  3. Re:A word about Dan. by Disoculated · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Because he's gay we should question his math? That's not relevant at all. And learn to spell. Sorry, couldn't help that. Guess that wasn't relevant either.

  4. Re:For the PostScript-impaired by ncc74656 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Now let's see how well RR's server can handle the /. effect. :^)

    It appears to be taking it better than cr.yp.to, at least. :-)

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  5. Re:dnetc by Ashran · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    rtfa (Read the fucking article)

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