Re: Failing to compile in MacOS X [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

2007-06-16 Thread Charly Avital
Benjamin Donnachie wrote the following on 6/16/07 9:01 PM: > Charly Avital wrote: >>> We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.3.0. This >>> is the first release of a series of development versions ebentually >>> leading to a new stable 1.4 series. >> Configured for: Darwin (i386

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Stef Caunter
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Snoken wrote: > I suppose this means that 1024 bit RSA-keys are ridiculous and the > Open PGP Card is a joke. And what about all web sites protected by > SSL with a 1024-bit RSA-certificate? The only thing that is ridiculous is this flame-bait language. Feel the freedom to p

Re: Failing to compile in MacOS X [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

2007-06-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Charly Avital wrote: >> We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.3.0. This >> is the first release of a series of development versions ebentually >> leading to a new stable 1.4 series. > Configured for: Darwin (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1),MacOS X 10.4.9 No problems here with Darwin

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
Andrew Berg wrote: > Anyone who's worried about an entity with the power needed to break > their messages in time to make any use of it has probably already been > using a longer key size for a while now. Or, more likely for someone that paranoid, a one time pad. Ben

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Andrew Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Snoken wrote: > Hi, I just read the latest CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2007, by Bruce > Schneier. He writes: > > "We have a new factoring record: 307 digits (1023 bits). It's a > special number -- 2^1039 - 1 -- but the techniques can be > generalized

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Robert J. Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 I'll get back to this bit in a moment. ;) > I suppose this means that 1024 bit RSA-keys are ridiculous and the > Open PGP Card is a joke. Not necessarily. There's certainly a strong argument to b

Failing to compile in MacOS X [Announce] Libgcrypt 1.3.0 (development) released

2007-06-16 Thread Charly Avital
Werner Koch wrote the following on 5/4/07 2:48 PM: > Hello! > > We are pleased to announce the availability of Libgcrypt 1.3.0. This > is the first release of a series of development versions ebentually > leading to a new stable 1.4 series. [...] Configured for: Darwin (i386-apple-darwin8.9.1),

RE: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Brian Smith
Snoken wrote: > I suppose this means that 1024 bit RSA-keys are ridiculous > and the Open PGP Card is a joke. And what about all web sites > protected by SSL with a 1024-bit RSA-certificate? This seems to be more-or-less on schedule: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Asymmetric_algorithm_key

Re: RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Remco Post
Snoken wrote: > Hi, > I just read the latest CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2007, by Bruce Schneier. > He writes: > > "We have a new factoring record: 307 digits (1023 bits). It's a > special number -- 2^1039 - 1 -- but the techniques can be > generalized. Expect regular 1024-bit numbers to be factored

RSA 1024 ridiculous

2007-06-16 Thread Snoken
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I just read the latest CRYPTO-GRAM, June 15, 2007, by Bruce Schneier. He writes: "We have a new factoring record: 307 digits (1023 bits). It's a special number -- 2^1039 - 1 -- but the techniques can be generalized. Expect regular 1024-bit numb