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Rich Freeman on 7 Jan 2016 10:06:04 -0800
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Re: [PLUG] Time Warner and Linode report possible password breaches
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- From: Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net>
- To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
- Subject: Re: [PLUG] Time Warner and Linode report possible password breaches
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:06:00 -0500
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even RSA got hacked:
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/the-rsa-hack-how-they-did-it/
>
I was referring to the RSA algorithm, not the company bearing the same
name. The algorithm is still considered secure against brute-force
attacks when you use a sufficiently large key size (actually the
attack against smaller keys is factoring, not brute-force).
--
Rich
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