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PATRICK PARIS -- MAKE YOUR PANTIES PUBLIC
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PATRICK PARIS -- PUNK
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:42:27 +0200 (CEST), Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga
Remailer wrote in
Message-Id: <20051020174227.2806917093@mail.cypherpunks.to>:
I dont think it was Frogs word for whatever it was that SB did. I
seem to recall several people on the group agreeing that SB had done
something not quite kosher.
I seem to recall that he anonymously said some pretty nasty things about
Frog-Admin and got found out. Then again, I said some nasty things
about Frog-Admin and so did plenty of other people.
Champerty was a good guy with pasionate views on anonymity. He also had
a short fuse.
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Subject: Re: RSA-640 Factored
George Orwell wrote:
RSA-640 has now been factored in 5 months with just 80 Opteron CPU's.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/news/2005-11-08/rsa-640/
Mixmaster uses 1024bit RSA keys, and so does Tor. Isn't it time to move to
at least 2048bits? Hardly anybody uses 1024bits for anything these days.
Why are we?
I wouldn't get too panicked just yet. Each additional bit roughly doubles
the factoring time, so a 641 bit key would be 10 months, 642 = 20 months,
643 = 40 months... 1024 = something like 1.00E+120 months (a guesstimate,
check the math).
I suppose it's all about how long you want your data to be safe. There's
no such thing as a "forever" cypher unless you consider the OTP, but
they're impractical in most real life applications. So every common
encryption scheme is a compromise. For real time communications like Tor
where information generally looses value quickly, a "buffer" of a few
million years is more than sufficient for now I'd say. ;)
Not that it doesn't bear watching mind you. Computing power can double in
a year, and costs per calculation can drop dramatically. It's always good
to be aware of the state of things, but it's important not to shift into
"sky is falling" mode every time someone makes another step forward. It
just means things are evolving as expected. No surprises. It's assumed
that keys of a given size will become less secure over time, and any
anomaly in that time line would be a red flag. Even if the anomaly were
larger keys *not* being factored. Worst case scenario, such a thing might
indicate a flaw in the methods we use to factor, and make all previous
results invalid... place us in a state where we have no *clue* about the
security of our encryption algorithms. :(
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Subject: Re: Moron flooder "eelbash" was "Frog"
Dermott McDermott <dermcderm@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
If that is correct why do you think it is? Is it that the majority of
internet users do not see the importance of Freedom of Speech the way
remops do?
Guns don't kill people. Remailers don't troll or stalk.
And we still have airlines and the postal office.
You know, stamping [BAD WORD] [HATECRIME] is not much different from the
clerk in the post office blackening out [NO WAY] [NU-UH] in postcards all
day long.
