[AusNOG] Government intends to pass TSSR this parliament

[Robert Hudson]

NIST considers 2048-bit keyed RSA encryption, properly implemented, to be
secure until 2030.

2048-bit keyed RSA takes ~2.4b times as long to crack by brute force than
1024-bit. 3072-bit key implementations are already out there, and I am sure
4096-bit is already possible.

On the jump from 1024 to 2048 bit keying - if you could break 1024-bit
encryption in one second, 2048-bit would take something north of 70 years.

The govt isn't saying "Hold my beer, we've got this" - they are asking
companies to help them, because they acknowledge they can't do it
themselves.


On 18 Jun. 2017 6:20 pm, "Phillip Grasso" <phillip.grasso at gmail.com> wrote:

> Back to something that might resemble a technical discussion. It comes
> down to the scale they want to operate, I'd continue to argue it's an
> economic scale cost. If they want to monitor people massively and probably
> not just about the terrorhusts but general public, they do the B's stuff
> like metadata collection etc, but if they had a targeted set of people they
> wanted to watch, they could and they have the mechanisms today, they
> probably way more than enough. Cracking encryption continues to be a
> function of computing power, time, crypto research/backdoors. (E.g. spy
> agencies probably knew of limited primes and other deficiencies with each
> crypto, thereby significantly reducing keyspace and reducing computational
> complexity / time. This however would be too complex for your regular
> politician to understand, or care about.
>
>
>
> On Jun 18, 2017 11:13 AM, "Peter Tiggerdine" <ptiggerdine at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> doesn't the election process fall under the checks and balance of
> absolute power corrupts absolute?
> Regards,
>
> Peter Tiggerdine
>
> GPG Fingerprint: 2A3F EA19 F6C2 93C1 411D 5AB2 D5A8 E8A8 0E74 6127
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 18 June 2017 at 08:36, Scott Weeks <surfer at mauigateway.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- newton at atdot.dotat.org wrote:
> >> From: Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
> >>
> >> Assuming bad faith is a key and essential part of
> >> democracy: Give people powerful jobs, but never,
> >> ever trust them to do them well.
> >> -------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Pffft!  I'm going to plagiarize that.  I hope you
> >> don't mind! :)
> >>
> >> scott
> >>
> >>
> >> ps.  This is a troll, right?  You can't actually
> >> believe that!  Right???
> >
> >
> > If we trusted them to do a good job, we wouldn't go through the election
> > process every few years...
> >
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