Re: [PLUG] Time Warner and Linode report possible password breaches

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

Ahh, well then, three letter acronym overloading bites me yet again. Takes me back to the bad old days at IBM...

On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> wrote:

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).

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