FIT100
RSA Challenge
After
inventing their scheme (1977), RSA challenged people to break it
•Their
first key was broken in 1994 using 1000 computers over 8 months
•Their
secret message: THE MAGIC WORDS ARE SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE
Doomed? No. There are many
other 129 digit keys, or if people get nervous make 200 digit keys
or more … breaking gets harder very fast; encrypt/decrypt doesn’t