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Re:RSA is a fragile cryptosystem by lvh on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:35AM (#20382553)
Disclaimer: I co-authored the Latacora one. I think "key size" is something maybe protocol designers need to be worried about, but it's still about two hops above how kobs-set-for-safety I like recommendations I make to be for the median programmer.
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Re:RSA is a fragile cryptosystem by CiPHPerCoder on Monday July 08, 2019 @09:52AM (#20382688)
> I think "key size" is something maybe protocol designers need to be worried about, but it's still about two hops above how kobs-set-for-safety I like recommendations I make to be for the median programmer.

From the article:

> The most important thing to keep in mind about cryptographic key sizes in 2019 is they don't matter nearly as much as the general public likes to think.

:P

The "general public" I'm referring to is the set of people who aren't cryptography protocol designers.

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