Hello, On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 12:16 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > On Thu 2017-12-28 21:31:28 -0800, Dan Mahoney (Gushi) wrote: > > > > Perhaps if you're dead-set on this being so dangerous, > > It's not the developers who are dead-set on weak-keyed RSA being > insecure, it's the cryptanalysts who have shown that to be the case :) > To further supplement this point, here is the paper that explain how RSA-768 was factorized. In 2010, the authors estimated that it would take around 1500 years to a single-core machine of this generation to do the same thing. We're 7 years after their first results, and we now have access to massive cloud-based behemoths for a discount. How much time would it resist? The idea of removing weak ciphers from a widely used piece of software is a good one - that way, you strengthen the whole ecosystem. Going the reverse path would simply make less informed people be the weak link of the Internet, putting possibly many more at risk. Best regards, -- Emmanuel Deloget _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
