Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA’s $11 billion budget.
  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    15 天前

    Tl;dr

    It is likely 512 and 1024 bit diffie Hellman primes are within the NSA budget to predict. Move to at least 2048.

    Or better yet move to an elliptic curve

    • Cypher@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 天前

      The NSA paid RSA, to ‘backdoor’ the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator which was pushed as an industry standard for years.

      I don’t see why they wouldn’t have done the same with more recent algorithms.

    • hereforawhile@lemmy.mlOPM
      3·
      15 天前

      This was written 10 years ago though for context.

      It’s anyone’s guess what can be done with today’s computers.