Re: Torvalds Slams Theoretical Security

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:01:24 +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

The obvious answer is attacks on weak cryptography. RSA-1024 and DH-1024
are probably breakable by the biggest SIGINT agencies (and anyone else
with comparable compute resources: cloud service providers for example).

Weak cryptography is easy to fix. The hard part to fix is weak random
numbers.