RSA 2K … Boiling Every Ocean on the Planet … and more
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3 min readMay 7, 2019
Someone contacted me and asked if they should upgrade to 4K keys for their Web site. “Why?”, I asked, “We have been told that 2K keys are insecure”, “But you would need to consume the energy to boil all the oceans on the planet to crack them”, “Oh!”.
In order to understand the concept of work in cracking cryptography, Lenstra [here] defined the concept of Global Security…
