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Simon Johnson wrote: | In your "Will Quantum Cryptography make RSA obselete?" question you | say "Moore's Law is a bigger threat to RSA." | | Moore's law makes RSA stronger, provided you upsize your key at | regular intervals. Because of moore's law i can use a bigger key to | encrypt and decrypt at the same speed as a smaller key.. | | Because adding bits to the key makes an attack harder more faster than | it slows the encryption process down.. Upsizing your key gives you | more bang per buck, so to speak.. You get more security for the same | amount of CPU time.
The problem is once you make a key you're stuck to it. Unless you completely ditch old keys [which can be problematic].
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