Re: [PEN-TEST] Places to find crypto craking tools

["William D. Colburn (aka Schlake)" <wcolburn () NMT EDU>]

Do your statements imply that 512 bits are still "safe" if the "public"
key is kept a secret?

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:54:15PM -0500, Jose Nazario wrote:
> while you are welcome to attempt to brute force the RSA public key to
> obtain the private components, a better use of your time is to sieve the
> publicly known bits to obtain the private information. they each used the
> General Number Field Sieve code.

> in short, brute forcing is theoretically possible, but don't waste your
> time, faster methods are out there. and yes, the idea that RSA is
> difficult to break is true, it's quite difficult, but not impossible. the
> general belief is that 512 bit RSA keys have fallen. time will be needed
> to factor 1024 bit keys. it's safe to assume that a determined and
> resource rich enemy can break generic RSA (512 bit) encryption when the
> gain is right.


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