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Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by crozewski on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:36AM (#10392721)
Can we use distributed computing to crowdsource the computation of more/better primes? Can OpenSSL look to this pool for its primes?
Re:How is NSA breaking so much crypto? by JacobEdelman on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:37AM (#10392727)
We wouldn't need to do this. One computer would suffice to generate primes at a pace making cracking computation infeasible. Though, even if we switch primes every few seconds, if somebody wanted to put a few hundred million dollars into cracking a few seconds of messages, they could do it.