Researcher: RSA 1024-bit encryption not enough

by Jeremy Kirk

May 24, 2007 —

The strength of the encryption used now to protect banking and e-commerce transactions on many Web sites may not be effective in as few as five years, a cryptography expert has warned after completing a new distributing-computing achievement.

Arjen Lenstra, a cryptology professor at the Ecole Polytechnique F

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