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Large primes are pretty useless. Everyday crypto generally uses 512-bit primes, which can be generated very easily and quickly on the fly.
by imaginenore 12y ago
Large primes are pretty useless. Everyday crypto generally uses 512-bit primes, which can be generated very easily and quickly on the fly.
- lukeschlather 12y agoThis website uses a 2048-bit key. 512-bit RSA keys are considered generally insecure and easy to crack. 2048 is the industry standard. Your point is probably still valid, but we don't know how high we can go.
- raverbashing 12y agoIt's not about finding a large prime, it's finding prime densities, gaps, sequences, etc
- wolfgke 12y ago512 bit primes lead to an RSA key length of 1024 bits, since the key length is the length of the product of two primes.