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[-] PushButton@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

The practical risk is limited, but still significant. Applying the attack against the deprecated use of 1024-bit keys took a handful of months on an academic CPU cluster, significantly less than the current estimates for 1024-bit factoring that would require resources that only nations or companies with massive resources could achieve. Widely used RSA implementations are also safe.

Bold emphasis is mine. It's a nothing Burger article.

[-] MangoCats@feddit.it 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was "following key length recommendations" 10 years ago that said 3072 bit or higher for RSA. At that time, lightweight processors would struggle a bit with 4096 bit keys, so I've launched a fair number of systems with 3072 bit keys - none of the data on any of them is worth a handful of months on a CPU cluster.

Though, there is an interesting metric you can put on key value today, because so much compute is available for short term lease, you can literally spend $1m for a 50/50 shot at cracking a "very secure" key in a few hours, because you pay per unit of compute, not per hour. Now, Amazon or whoever might start refusing your business if you tried to spend $1M on compute in parallel all running within a single hour, but you could probably negotiate with them to get that done in low demand slots over a couple of days.

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