Triple your RSA key lengths

[ciphergoth]

I've been waiting to hear from one of the really heavyweight experts whether there's any meat behind Bernstein's fast factoring proposals before saying anything.

Bob Silverman just posted a first impression to sci.crypt; he can't see why it wouldn't be practical, and is now recommending 2048-bit keys instead of the 1024-bit keys he used to recommend.

Comments

[lovingboth]

Yeah, but for factoring large numbers you're talking pure mathematics and ways to make things easier rather than easy.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Well, the same is true for finding discrete logarithms over elliptic curves or Schnorr groups, but the shortcuts there (in the general case) aren't up to much more than a square root of brute force attack (they're based on collision finding). I don't think I know what you're getting at. If every attack is always destined to be succeeded by an exponentially better one, we might as well give up and go home.