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Re: 2048 bits, damn the electrons! [rt@openssl.org: [openssl.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Thu Sep 30 20:56:17 2010
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:32:38 -0400
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <4CA4B870.9010500@dei.uc.pt>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 05:18:56PM +0100, Samuel Neves wrote:
>
> One solution would be to use 2048-bit 4-prime RSA. It would maintain the
> security of RSA-2048, enable the reusing of the modular arithmetic units
> of 1024 bit VLSI chips and keep ECM factoring at bay. The added cost
> would only be a factor of ~2, instead of ~8.
This is a neat idea! But it means changing the TLS standard, yes?
Thor
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