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I wonder, once every piece of motherboards are shipped with MS key, how much CPU time would be needed to factor the private key and sign anything? Some distribu
by conductor 14y ago
I wonder, once every piece of motherboards are shipped with MS key, how much CPU time would be needed to factor the private key and sign anything? Some distributed piece of software running on thousands of anonymous machines should solve the problem in weeks I think, or not?
- zurn 14y agoA SSL cert vendor has a popularized writeup for 2048-bit RSA (which UEFI uses according to http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/UEFI_Plugfest_2012Q1_v3_AMI.pdf http://www.uefi.org/learning_center/UEFI_Plugfest_2012Q1_v3_...) at http://www.digicert.com/TimeTravel/math.htm http://www.digicert.com/TimeTravel/math.htm: "[...] It is therefore estimated, that standard desktop computing power would take 4,294,967,296 x 1.5 million years to break a DigiCert 2048-bit SSL certificate. Or, in other words, a little over 6.4 quadrillion years."