Arf!!!

[evulish]

<-- Brainfried after finishing a report describing RSA and PGP encryption methods to a classful of computer-illiterates. n=pq...GAHHHHHH! c=m^e mod n ...EEP! Now all I have to do is give a 5-10min oral report about what I wrote in my report. Explaining RSA on a chalkboard...*apathetic sigh*

The worst thing about knowing lots about computers is having to teach it to everyone else. I'm free tech-support. Hehe. Let's see...now I've done a large report on RSA/PGP, binary math, mp3s, advantages of learning Perl, basic computer knowledge, and I think there a few others (like: What did you do this summer? Ans: Surf the web. )

<-- dork (as if it doesn't show)

[Onizuka]

rsa encryption....gotta love trying to explain it

[Josh Hambright]

onizuka didn't you try to enlighten all of us on the team by putting the RSA encryption algorithym on our message boards?

Gibberish to me...

What about LEGO ENCRYPTION!

[SlamminSammy]

Originally posted by oneangrydwarf
onizuka didn't you try to enlighten all of us on the team by putting the RSA encryption algorithym on our message boards?

Gibberish to me...

What about LEGO ENCRYPTION!

I posted some PGP DH/DSS here, but only because I couldn't figure out how to post some quantum encryption .

[evulish]

Ehh? You use 3072-bit DH/DSS encryption with PGP? I thought PGP only did IDEA, RSA, MD5 hash-sums, a PRNG, and some sort of file compression.

[SlamminSammy]

Your PGP may be through another developer. I use freeware from The PGP Corporation. The basic tech specs are here.

My specs:
Type: DH/DSS
Size: 3072/1024
Cipher: CAST

[edit]OOPS! I remember now, I use MIT PGP because of the added features.[/edit]

[evulish]

Ahh...I see...you can use different kinds of encryption. I didn't know this. Cool. (Any idea on the advantages of DH/DSS over RSA...or just the bigger key size, basically?)

[Onizuka]

now that lego encryption i cannot match

[SlamminSammy]

See http://www.scramdisk.clara.net/pgpfaq.html


At high numbers of equal bits DH is a little stronger than RSA.

As for key size, 512-bit RSA has been broken, but only 283-bit DH has been broken (or so the NSA says). Either way, they are nowhere near 1024-bits. The DH key max of 8192 is overkill, let alone the 16,384-bit max for RSA keys.

Either way, once quantum cryptography becomes more advanced all current encryptions will become useless. Not only will they be decrypted easily, but quantum cryptography should be undecipherable. These technologies are currently available, but semi-primitive and expensive. Standing rumor is that there is a fiber-optic cable running from the Pentagon to the White House carrying qubits .