RSA Security Concerns
The cluster focuses on debates about the security and future viability of RSA cryptography, including vulnerabilities of specific key sizes like 1024-bit and 2048-bit, implications if broken, and comparisons to alternatives.
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You talk bad about RSA and use RSA keys at the same time?
For us that don't understand, what does this mean? Is RSA less secure now?
Why can’t we just keep on using RSA with a huge key?
RSA 1024 bit keys are endangered. AES nope.
RSA being broken is not optimistic
At what point do we no longer trust public key cryptography (RSA)? Where's the break point?
What practical things can be done once RSA is broken?
Consider your 2-bit RSA keys to be 99% compromised.
Because it means that some RSA keys may be weaker than others. Without diving too far into the mathematics of it, the RSA cryptosystem (and indeed, many asymmetric-key cryptosystems) is based on the notion that multiplying two gigantic prime numbers together to get another gigantic non-prime number is easy; but taking a gigantic non-prime number and figuring out which two prime numbers were multiplied together is incredibly hard. This conjecture, if true, means that for some gigantic non-prime n
So RSA should be considered broken?