Saturday, January 9, 2010  Even the 768 bit RSA algorithm
cracked, so far 1024 is safe  Cracking encryption codes is an
activity that has been carried out for millenia now, since the
carrying of information in a way that outsiders cannot read it
is as old as man's quest for politics and fighting with each
other. The tales of the Enigma project in the second World War,
the quest between the Allied and Axis powers to read each
other's secret messages, and then the quest between the Soviets
and the US over encryption and safety of messages eventually
turned into a battle of mathematics; and this is what encryption
is all about now, a quest for who can have a higher degree of
combination of mathematics and computing power to either set up
more secure systems, or to break other other's codes. A few
years ago, it seemed that 128 bit encryption was secure, and now
it does not even seem that 768 bit is secure (link to article):
Saturday, November 14, 2009  Feedback of a Flash user on
Silverlight  I came across this