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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by dehrmann on Friday May 29, 2020 @09:36PM (#23357668)
The other part of RSA is that mathematicians have been doing math on primes for millennia, prime factoring is likely as hard as we think it is, and RSA, despite being pretty old. hasn't had problems crop up. The only downsides are key length and quantum computing.
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by SiNiquity on Friday May 29, 2020 @10:47PM (#23358042)
Implementations of RSA have suffered from all sorts of problems that have led to real world attacks irrespective of the hardness of factoring prime numbers. The intuition behind RSA being hard is alluring in its simplicity, but it's deceptive. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/08/fuck-rsa/
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by dehrmann on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:45AM (#23359055)
How many of these types of issues are unique to RSA? Does it being old help in that more of them have been discovered, and there are known implementations that are usually good?
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Re:The surprising persistence of RSA keys in SSH by bawolff on Saturday May 30, 2020 @02:04AM (#23358896)
Its stil based on a problem highly related to prime numbers.
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