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Here's an article about the NSA cracking some parts of the web: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encry
by abledon 7y ago
Here's an article about the NSA cracking some parts of the web:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-the-nsa-can-break-trillions-of-encrypted-web-and-vpn-connections/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-t...
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For commonly used 1024-bit keys, it would take about a year and cost a "few hundred million dollars" to crack just one of the extremely large prime numbers that form the starting point of a Diffie-Hellman negotiation. But it turns out that only a few primes are commonly used, putting the price well within the NSA's $11 billion-per-year budget dedicated to "groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities."
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