Re: Modulus length (was Re: Draft CA information checklist)

2008-05-31 Thread Kyle Hamilton
http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/205 is the most recent I can find. They factored a number of greater than 1024 bits, published on May 31 2007. -Kyle H On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 9:49 PM +0300 5/30/08, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: >>Paul Hoffman:

Re: Modulus length (was Re: Draft CA information checklist)

2008-05-31 Thread Gervase Markham
Paul Hoffman wrote: > Let's talk specifics. The Verisign "Class 3 Public Primary Certification > Authority", which is widely used to create popular SSL certs on the > Internet (see ), has a 1024-bit RSA key and has > an expiration date of Aug 1 23:59:59 2028. Yes, that's a

Re: Modulus length (was Re: Draft CA information checklist)

2008-05-31 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Paul Hoffman: There is a possibility that it doesn't exist. Such a result would be widely-referenced in the crypto community. Maybe it has been withdrawn aftera) or b) happened? There could be a few reasons for this... That is not what I said at all. I said that if Mallory derives

Re: Modulus length (was Re: Draft CA information checklist)

2008-05-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:04 AM +0300 5/31/08, Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) wrote: >Paul Hoffman: >>OK, but an actual reference would be helpful. > >Yes, and it's obviously pretty bad from me not being able to back it >up. I tried to locate it and even went through mails I sent in 2006 >where I could have possibly menti

Re: Including FNMT cert in Firefox 3 (Spanish government)

2008-05-31 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Nukeador: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) escribió: Please see the comment of Frank: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435736#c4 "Accepting bug. It will go into the queue with all the other requests, so we will not be processing it immediately." Friends, there is a queue, there are oth

Re: Including FNMT cert in Firefox 3 (Spanish government)

2008-05-31 Thread Nukeador
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) escribió: Please see the comment of Frank: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435736#c4 "Accepting bug. It will go into the queue with all the other requests, so we will not be processing it immediately." Friends, there is a queue, there are others which a

Re: Including FNMT cert in Firefox 3 (Spanish government)

2008-05-31 Thread Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)
Nukeador: Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) escribió: Nukeador: Cristina has just opened a new bug with the information: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435736 Congratulations. Now I think Frank can accept that bug. So now we can track the status at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/secu

Re: Including FNMT cert in Firefox 3 (Spanish government)

2008-05-31 Thread Nukeador
Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.) escribió: Nukeador: Cristina has just opened a new bug with the information: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435736 Congratulations. Now I think Frank can accept that bug. So now we can track the status at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/certs/