Hardware potential to duplicate existing host keys... RSA DSA ECDSA was Add rc.conf variables...

[Robert Simmons]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:34:45 -0500, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In light of advanced in processors and GPUs, what is the potential for
>> duplication of RSA, DSA, and ECDSA keys at the current default key
>> lengths (2048, 1024, and 256 respectively)?
>>
>
> I've been able to duplicate keys for years simply using cp(1)
>
> Define "duplicate". Are you asking about some sort of collision? Are you
> asking about brute forcing an encrypted stream and deducing what the private
> key is?

Collisions or brute forcing an encrypted stream, either one.