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EdDSA is also quite a mess, see e.g. https://hdevalence.ca/blog/2020-10-04-its-25519am/ . Almost no two implementations that aren't the same code base c…
by pseudohadamard · Sep 5, 2026
> If you are actually operating a service relying on RSA-1024 security, it is almost certainly pwoned. If you're running something with code from a large US corporation, or outs…
by pseudohadamard · Sep 5, 2026
This article (mine) is about this: 2048 Bit RSA and the Year 2030 https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=em:20482030 I guess it could be updated to include this lates…
by upofadown · Sep 5, 2026
It's not just because the GPG user is small fry that 1024 bit RSA is low risk for them. It is mostly because there is only one of them. A nation state attacker would have to spe…
by upofadown · Sep 5, 2026
> AFAIK you can do all RSA maths with registers just double as wide as the key, no variable width anything required there. Yeah, you don't need variable width, you just need a k…
by Dylan16807 · Sep 5, 2026
You don't have to have RSA be broken in order to get a competitive advantage over other people searching. You just need Claud to find software optimization that got overlooked o…
by charcircuit · Sep 5, 2026
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