9 Jun
2011
9 Jun
'11
4:02 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:57, Dean Pemberton
Please don't confuse discussing key length with being solely focussed on it.
I think the way the discussion, temporarily, narrowed on an easily compared numeric issue, is testament to the lure of simple comparisons and drives the perception/political side of the argument. Even we are not immune to the siren call. One other point, if "someone announced today that they could factor a 1024 bit key in just 1 second" it would not be the result of Moore's Law, and clearly illustrates the speaker is not "under the impression that advances in cryptographic key breaking only ever proceed at a linear pace."
Dean
Hamish. -- http://tr.im/HKM