Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sat, 05 November 2016 14:50 UTC

From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu>, Cfrg <cfrg@irtf.org>
Thread-Topic: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA
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Erik Andersen <era@x500.eu> writes:

>This proves to me that it wrong to leave the IT standardization to vendors.

I could say the same thing about cryptographers.  Both are in fact true,
because you don't want to leave standardisation to just one single group, you
need input based on both strong theoretical analysis and real-world experience
and considerations.

Unfortunately this very rarely happens, so you get the unfortunate situation
where the theory guys look over at the vendors and say "look at the mess
they're making of our fine design" and the vendors look at the theory guys and
say "this stuff doesn't do what we need, we'll have to come up with our own
way of doing it".

There's an IEC standard in the works that's a prime illustration of the latter
point...

Peter.

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Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA Peter Gutmann
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Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA John Mattsson
Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA Hanno Böck
Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA Erik Andersen
Re: [Cfrg] 1024 bit RSA Peter Gutmann