DakienDX
February 27th, 2002, 12:25
Hello mike !
This is an interesting message. Now it will become interesting again to look at 1024 bit keys.
But how much will such things cost? Who would buy a $100.000 machine to factorize a number which brings $10.000 when done, with the risk that someone else has also bought the same machine and has already factored the number?
How fast is such a machine? If RSA-1024 still takes a half year it's not so interesting to most people. If it takes half an hour, it becomes more interesting.
This means program authors using RSA a registration protection will now have to use a DVD to give the registration key to the user, because it doesn't fit any more on a CD.
