Originally Posted by benjamin
Calm down man. Quantum computers notwithstanding, it will always be easier to increase keyspace than it will be to brute force crack the same key. Distributed.net is working on RSA Labs 72-bit key right now, but the amount of time required to encrypt something with a massively larger key isn't a big deal - say, 512 bit or even 1024 bit.
:werd: it's projected that :
The odds are 1 in 268,365 that we will wrap this thing
up in the next 24 hours. (This also means that we'll
hit 100% in 268,365 days at yesterday's rate.)
this is with a huge shit load of computers trying to crack it. I'm part of a team that Click heads and it takes a long time for 1 key.