On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > Unless they take the time to successfully factor the > > > > public key, > > > > > > Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by it. > > > > I imagine he means a brute force crack. Got a supercomputer or > > botnet available? Does the target use md5 passwords? Good luck. > > I do, but of a different (and much more difficult) type. > > My (admittedly limited) understanding of public key crypto is that the > public and private key are connected by the relationship of two extremly > large prime numbers. It is mathematically possible, then, to identify > those numbers by factoring the numeric value of the public key and then > use them to deduce the value of the private key.
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