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Comment Re:Wat (Score 1) 47

Haven't we all moved to Ed25519 years ago, though?

On my servers, I require three separate ssh keys to log in: AuthenticationMethods publickey,publickey,publickey. Logging in with passwords is not permitted over ssh, but that's not a big deal since any account with a password is blocked from logging in via ssh. If the account has a password, it is intended for logging in at the console only. They also permit S/KEY from the console. Also for the RSA key, at least 4096 bits is required: RequiredRSAsize 4096

Comment Re:Wat (Score 1) 47

Moving from 1024 to 2048 when 768 is broken is one thing. But so far, quantum computers have only managed 6 bits and had to cheat a bit to do it. It took longer than a child with pencil and paper would take. The new improved quantum computers that were going to do better than that some 6 years ago just kinda didn't happen. We'll get 'em next year?

Comment Re:okkkkkkay (Score 1) 47

The fact that this RSA weakness is not based on quantum computation is irrelevant

It's extremely relevant. An actual computer that we can build today can exploit the new RSA weakness. We have no computers today that can run Shor or Grover and the timeline for one that can on a useful scale is somewhere between years and never.

Comment Re:Functionally illiterate is the new norm (Score 1) 98

Exactly. For example, spreadsheets were often used day to day but the accountants kept the actual books as books and had the final word. That changed over time, only after spreadsheets proved out (and got the bugs out).

Also, humans stayed in the loop. Sure there were occasional funnies like a medical database claiming a few male patients had a history of pregnancy, but humans were in the loop and cited those as obvious errors. There were still backup paper records to fall back on.

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