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This is from 2015.
by whyever 8y ago
This is from 2015.
- ColinWright 8y agoThanks for noticing. For everyone else, has the situation got better?? Or has it got worse? Would someone more experienced and/or qualified care to comment? I know a bit, but not enough.
- josephmosby 8y agoTwo researchers at DEF CON this past weekend showed that the situation is better but people are still using old tech for their crypto. So, better mathematically, but not practically. Slides are here off the DEF CON media server: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20presentations/DEFCON-26-Nils-Amiet-and-Yonal-Romailler-Reaping-and-breaking-keys-at-scale-when-crypto-meets-big-data.pdf https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2026/DEF%20CON%2026%20pre...
- ColinWright 8y agoCool - thanks.
- paulpauper 8y agoIt has nothing to do with age. if it cant be cracked it cant be cracked. choose 12 words at random from a small dictionary, write em' down somewhere safe and secret, and forget about it. That will work forever. Overkill security is better than trying to find the computational limit and then going one bit above that. keys are cracked when the process of generating them is flawed or the key is not big enough. That's why bitcoin private keys are so long and why 12 words are used even though 8 would probably still be enough.
- dang 8y agoThanks; added.