• Mathematics, Computer Science
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  IACR Cryptology ePrint…
  2009

On the Security of 1024-bit RSA and 160-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography

@article{Bos2009OnTS,
  title={On the Security of 1024-bit RSA and 160-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography},
  author={Joppe W. Bos and Marcelo E. Kaihara and Thorsten Kleinjung and Arjen K. Lenstra and Peter L. Montgomery},
  journal={IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive},
  year={2009},
  volume={2009},
  pages={389}
}

• Joppe W. Bos, Marcelo E. Kaihara, +2 authors Peter L. Montgomery

Meeting the requirements of NIST’s new cryptographic standard ‘Suite B Cryptography’ means phasing out usage of 1024-bit RSA and 160-bit Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) by the year 2010. This write-up comments on the vulnerability of these systems to an open community attack effort and aims to assess the risk of their continued usage beyond 2010. We conclude that for 1024-bit RSA the risk is small at least until the year 2014, and that 160-bit ECC may safely be used for much longer – with the… CONTINUE READING

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