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Jim Gillogly (jim@acm.org)
Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:24:40 -0800
Thomas Roessler <roessler@guug.de> writes:
> Are there any current estimates on the cost and time it takes to
> factor a 512 bit RSA modulus?
Paul Leyland, who has been involved in most of the important factoring
achievements, estimates that the size of the project with today's
hardware would be comparable to the RSA-129 effort, which in 1994 found
the factors of that 426-bit number using 1600 distributed computers
(about 5000 MIPS-years). He expects such a project to be completed
within a year or two.
By comparison, Paul estimates that factoring a 768-bit RSA modulus would
currently require an effort about the size of the Apollo project.
-- Jim Gillogly 4 Rethe S.R. 1999, 19:16 12.19.5.17.9, 10 Muluc 2 Kayab, Seventh Lord of Night
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