Implications Of The Recent RSA Vulnerability

erythrocyte firasmr786 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 09:39:33 CET 2010


With the recent news of researchers being able to crack 1024-bit RSA
keys using power fluctuations, I was wondering if it would be a good
idea to switch the RSA keys I have to some other algorithm. Both my
signing and encryption keys are 4096-bit keys. Am I vulnerable to this
security hole?

Is it possible to generate a new keypair and retain/transfer the old
signatures from my email buddies?

Ref:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/1024-bit-rsa-encryption-cracked-by-carefully-starving-cpu-of-ele/



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