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jkirsteins
on Sept 24, 2016
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Upgrade your SSH keys
Can anybody elaborate on the idea that for RSA <=2048 is potentially unsafe? Is it true? It seems that even 1024 bit keys haven't been factored yet, much less 2048, so why use anything else currently?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge#The_...
waynecochran
on Sept 24, 2016
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I want someone to explain this too -- the article does not give any strong evidence that RSA <= 2048 is unsafe.
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