Factorable Keys: Twice As Many, But Half As Bad 40
J. Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger write in with an update to yesterday's story on RSA key security: "Yesterday Slashdot posted that RSA keys are 99.8%
secure in the real world. We've been working on this
concurrently, and as it turns out, the story is a bit more
complicated. Those factorable keys are generated by your router and
VPN, not bankofamerica.com. The geeky details are pretty nifty: we
downloaded every SSL and SSH keys on the internet in a few days, did
some math on 100 million digit numbers, and ended up with 27,000
private keys. (That's 0.4% of SSL keys in current use.) We posted a
long
blog post summarizing our findings over at Freedom to Tinker."
Re:slashdotted (Score:2, Funny)
All I see is a wall of text.
Re:Dont these keys change often? How would you mat (Score:2, Funny)
Quick! Everybody log in as "Anonymous Coward" before he changes it!