arstechnica.com— A group of researchers has factored out the prime numbers in a 307-digit "special" number, and says that cracking a 1024-bit key is on the horizon.
May 23, 2007View in Crawl 4
"I am pretty sure NSA can break 2048bit key without problems."Thinking defensively, it makes sense to assume that they probably can. But unless the NSA is actually your adversary, it doesn't really matter.Yes, the Allies cracked Enigma during WWII, but they had to be very careful not to let the Germans know they'd cracked it, or the Germans would switch to something else. This meant that they couldn't always act on the intelligence they received, and had to actually sacrifice some ships to surprise attacks they knew were coming -- evading the attacks would've been a clue to the German attackers that their messages had been intercepted. The secret was more important than the ships.Likewise, even if the NSA can crack RSA, you'd have to be sending some mighty sensitive messages for them to risk revealing that they can read them. If it's something like your personal email, even if they read it, there's no way they're ever going to tell anyone what it said.
Many methods of encryption exist that the NSA cannot crack.I'm sure our current "enemies" are well aware of many of them.RSA, DES, PGP, ect mainly HELP protect the law abiding from the crooks.They can never protect your political freedom from the US surveillance police state........
The processing key can be changed, newer MKB vers have already done this. And this particular key is only one of several that are needed. They do, however, use an asymmetric key in part of their algorithm. All device keys (needed to recover a title key) are signed and the public key is stored in the drive. If that were broken, their drive revocation approach would become useless.So public key cryptography is not irrelevant to this topic.
decayerMay 24, 2007
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spraguepMay 24, 2007
NNSA != NSAThe computing power of the NSA I'm sure is classified. I'm also sure it blows away anything on that list.
kitchenraiderMay 24, 2007
12345 works just fine for me!
xtmno3May 24, 2007
LoveSexSecretGodHack the planet!
Closed AccountMay 24, 2007
It is no problem as long as you have several hundred years.
wyzardMay 24, 2007
"I am pretty sure NSA can break 2048bit key without problems."Thinking defensively, it makes sense to assume that they probably can. But unless the NSA is actually your adversary, it doesn't really matter.Yes, the Allies cracked Enigma during WWII, but they had to be very careful not to let the Germans know they'd cracked it, or the Germans would switch to something else. This meant that they couldn't always act on the intelligence they received, and had to actually sacrifice some ships to surprise attacks they knew were coming -- evading the attacks would've been a clue to the German attackers that their messages had been intercepted. The secret was more important than the ships.Likewise, even if the NSA can crack RSA, you'd have to be sending some mighty sensitive messages for them to risk revealing that they can read them. If it's something like your personal email, even if they read it, there's no way they're ever going to tell anyone what it said.
metasquaresMay 25, 2007
@angelbunny:That person should publish his or her method, then, because it would constitute a major advance in cryptanalysis.
daisukeMay 25, 2007
@r00tus3r (#6852693)FYI, RSA is not a hashing algorithm.the more you know...
rhino2May 25, 2007
"This probably means someone is about to release a 2048 bit key encryption system..."welcome to 1973!
Closed AccountMay 26, 2007
Many methods of encryption exist that the NSA cannot crack.I'm sure our current "enemies" are well aware of many of them.RSA, DES, PGP, ect mainly HELP protect the law abiding from the crooks.They can never protect your political freedom from the US surveillance police state........
unique172Dec 10, 2008
Just made one today, actually...though it takes a long time to find keys over about 1000 digits.
unique172Dec 10, 2008
I'd agree, except that the NSA is the number one employer for PhDs in number theory today.
aaroncoMar 11, 2010
The processing key can be changed, newer MKB vers have already done this. And this particular key is only one of several that are needed. They do, however, use an asymmetric key in part of their algorithm. All device keys (needed to recover a title key) are signed and the public key is stored in the drive. If that were broken, their drive revocation approach would become useless.So public key cryptography is not irrelevant to this topic.