> RSA encryption is not broken by factoring keys but by exploiting implementation flaws.
> Factoring a 2048-bit RSA key would require more energy than the world produces in a year, as explained here.
The above should probably contain some caveat's like "Assuming a GNFS attacker, ..." or "ignoring hypothetical non-public mathematical breakthroughs"
charcircuit•4mo ago
cipehr•4mo ago
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nine_k•4mo ago
mikewarot•4mo ago
sunrunner•4mo ago
[1] http://tom7.org/papers/murphy2022harder.pdf
charcircuit•4mo ago
jerf•4mo ago
I'd tell you to "go ahead and start computing that and tell me when you're done", however, I like the universe I live in, and the entire information content of the boundary of the observable universe is something like 4*10^122 bits [1]. So you're talking about creating a black hole vastly, vastly, vastly, 10-to-the-power-of-thousand+ times larger than the observable universe, which some of your fellow universe residents may find to be a hostile act and we probably aren't going to let you finish.
While you can define such a table as having "O(1)" lookup properties in the sense that on average the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast, dwarfing-the-observable-universe-by-hundreds-of-orders-of-magnitude light years you'd have to travel for the answer to a given query can be considered "O(1)" since it's on average pretty much the same for all lookups, it's constant in a rather useless sense.
[1]: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information.html
charcircuit•4mo ago
CodesInChaos•4mo ago
In any of these models the time would be multiplied with the size of the lookup table, resulting in a cost much higher that number-field-sieve.
Plus you need to consider the (amortized) cost of populating the lookup table.