>Snowden has never seen a successful decrypted RSA-1024 intercept. But he also believes that the good stuff is kept under wraps... Here's a piece I wrote for C

>Snowden has never seen a successful decrypted RSA-1024 intercept. But he also believes that the good stuff is kept under wraps... Here's a piece I wrote for CNET about RSA-1024: http://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-outmoded-web-crypto-opens-door-to-nsa-spying/ http://www.cnet.com/news/facebooks-outmoded-web-crypto-opens... Quoting Eran Tromer, a Tel Aviv University CS prof who wrote his dissertation on custom code-breaking hardware: "Realistically, right now, breaking 1,024-bit RSA should be considered well within reach by leading nations, and marginally safe against other players." And that was two years ago.