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Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd)
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:28:31 -0500
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:32:08PM -0800, Len Sassaman wrote:
What is most concerning to me is a few discoveries that were made while looking into the problem of widespread use of 1024 bit keys:
Personally I'm not too concerned (yet). You're probably worse off due to implementation flaws. But on a list of things which "should be fixed" for the future: Any RSA implementation using RSARef (which until the patent expired was the only legal way to write RSA implementations in the US) is limited to < 1024 bits. I can think of a few vendors using embedded SSH who still suffer from this problem (Vendor F comes to mind, but their SSH implementation also doesn't work with OpenSSH w/freebsd localisations, so something else is afoot there as well). -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177 (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA B2 46 B3 D8 14 36 FE B6)
Current thread:
- 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Todd Suiter (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Travis Pugh (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Deepak Jain (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Deepak Jain (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Brad Barnett (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) David Shaw (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Deepak Jain (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)
- RE: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Deepak Jain (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Richard A Steenbergen (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Travis Pugh (Mar 25)
- Re: 1024-bit RSA keys in danger of compromise (fwd) Len Sassaman (Mar 25)