Factoring Breakthrough?

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Posted by michael on Tuesday February 26, 2002 @05:10AM 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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Ginger scale big? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Eh? What the blazes is that, my good man?
What does this mean for new computer users? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

New computer user help & resources are going to do really well as a result of this post.
It's Big... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...really big.
1st by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

dedicated to all my dead homiez
1. Re:1st by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  first reply to second post !
  he he he :)
Re:For the PostScript-impaired by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

forst pist!
Re:My stupidity is reaching new heights. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I object to this post!
OT: Your sig by rjamestaylor · 2002-02-26 05:21 · 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 · 2002-02-26 05:28 · 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 · 2002-02-26 06:22 · 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 · 2002-02-26 06:38 · 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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Goat Attacks Man, Watchers Masturbate by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:21 · Score: -1, Offtopic

A goatunexpectedly attacked a man while helpless crowed watched, and some masturbated", Reuters reports.
christ by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

god damnit, why the hell did he have to figure that out. Now I must redo everything. Go to hell turd

You fucker.. i should eat your ass. I am so sick of all these idiots figuring out stuff is insecure.

i have hairy asshole with shit crusties hanging on them. so fun to play with while i sleep at night
Re:For the PostScript-impaired by Unknown+Bovine+Group · 2002-02-26 05:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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

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A word about Dan. by Penguinoflight · 2002-02-26 05:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Dan Berinstien is (literally) gay. His projects are generally unorganinzed, and have rediculous licenses.

I'd like to see someone else say there's a problem. Nonetheless, the smaller the key, the less secure, and the larger the key, the more secure.

This is not off topic.

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1. Re:A word about Dan. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  OH DEAR GOD NO NOT GAY!
  Well, that settles it - let's just take him out back and shoot him then. Seriously, how the hell is that relevant AT ALL?
2. Re:A word about Dan. by Disoculated · 2002-02-26 05:38 · 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.
3. Re:A word about Dan. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 07:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  nice spelling, and what does his sexual orientation have to do with crypto ?
Re:damnit by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Oh well.
gay slashdot tacosnotting by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

CmdrTaco is a tacosnotter. He takes taco shells, and wipes his own snot and jizz on them. Then, he eats them!
Re:First Post. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

there... better now?
Re:gay slashdot tacosnotting by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's not Taco-snotting. You're confusing Wipotrollian and Weathertrollian techniques. Get with the program.
Re:My stupidity is reaching new heights. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

your honor!! permission to approach the bench?!?!?
Because by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 05:40 · Score: -1, Offtopic

AIDS kills fags dead, and that's a good thing (TM).
You're a putz. But does that make you wrong? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 06:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fortunately yes in this case. However, being correct or incorrect is completely independent of someone's sexuality. For christ's sake god is gay.
Re:For the PostScript-impaired by ncc74656 · 2002-02-26 06:04 · 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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Re:dnetc by Ashran · 2002-02-26 06:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

rtfa (Read the fucking article)

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