Hi David, about the first "tidbit":
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> wrote: > First of all, someone has factored a 512-bit RSA key (the one used to > protect a TI programmable calculator, it seems). It took 73 days on a > dual-core 1900Mhz Athlon64. It took just under 5 gigs of storage and around > 2.5 gigs of RAM. In other words: not much at all. It's not some big > distributed project - rather it's a single guy who wanted to factor it and > just left it running in the background for 2 and a half months. (This is > actually a month old - forgot to send it before now). > > http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=8888 > dummy question: by factoring a public key integer, one can get somehow to its corresponding private key? Regards, Marcio Barbado, Jr. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
