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Cracking even a 1024 bit RSA key would cost at least millions of dollars. Credit card numbers are not worth that much.
by ryan-c 14y ago
Cracking even a 1024 bit RSA key would cost at least millions of dollars. Credit card numbers are not worth that much.
- ig1 14y agoTens of thousands of credit and debit cards, many of which are likely to be corporate cards with extremely high spending limits ?
- dangrossman 14y agoWorth no more than $1 a card on the black market. It'd be cheaper to buy cards than to try to crack the key. There's more supply than demand for stolen card numbers.
- ig1 14y agoThat's because the black market for credit cards is a lemon market [1] - known good corporate cards are much more valuable. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
- scott_karana 14y agoNobody needs to crack the key: merely the keyphrase. Bruteforcing is relatively cheap.