Linux crypto killer apllication

Christoph Anton Mitterer christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de
Thu May 15 10:21:34 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 01:42 -0500, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> If 2kbit RSA/DSA/ElG ever becomes attackable either via cryptanalysis,
> brute force or developments in large number theory, the solution will be
> to move to entirely new algorithm families, not to just tack on another
> few bits to the end.
Yes,... moreover,... there are parts of the cryptosystem that are / will
be weak someday,.. where increasing the keysize won't help (e.g. the
hash algos)

Chris.




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