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The EFF SSL Observatory

The EFF SSL Observatory

Posted Aug 5, 2010 15:33 UTC (Thu) by gmaxwell (subscriber, #30048)
Parent article: The EFF SSL Observatory

They ought to contact anyone running a 600 bit or less certificate and warn them before releasing the database.

Many months ago it cost me about $160 on amazon EC2 to crack 512 bit RSA in two days. You can do it in about a month on an older 4 way opteron. (And I expect it would cost less on EC2 now because of the pricing changes).


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