Whew, RSA scare is a non-issue, it's some junk hardware module with broken keygen not scary new math or subtle flaws in major impls.
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The FUD machine on the pre-announcement was really bad. Many ppl read it as "RSA 1024 and 2048 are factorable".
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so maybe my bullshit detector is better, but I haven't read that anywhere. but I can see that people may read that.
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Search twitter for "rsa keys" find stuff like:https://twitter.com/HNTweets/status/919842861834784769 …
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okay, but that's a HN headline that misrepresented the source tweet and got removed from HN pretty quickly
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@dangoodin001 is accurate, as he refers to "millions of keys" (which kinda makes it obvious that it's not "all keys")2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
It could easily have been a large class of keys based on some mathematical property (like being N mod M, or relationship btwn the 2 primes).
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