Better yet would be a website that verifies the suitability of your random number generator. But once the Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs are released later this year, we will have a built-in random number generator based on physical noise, and all this pseudorandom number garbage will become obsolete. -- Gene
________________________________ From: Mike Speciner <ms@alum.mit.edu> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [math-fun] We don't need no stinking factorizer to break RSA... duh!!!!!!!!!
So, given that there's no limit on human stupidity, has someone put up a website (commercial, or public service) where you attempt to register your public RSA key and it tells you if it matches someone else's, or if it shares a factor with someone else's (in which case it informs the someone else[s] if they've registered), or if it is a weak key for some other reason (e.g., easily factored, easily guessed private exponent), or it says it's OK and registers it? I could imagine such a service provided by such entities as NIST [but would you trust the government?], some university, some industry organization such as IEEE or ACM, or some security software provider such as Norton or EMC/RSA.
--ms
On 2/14/2012 7:44 PM, Warren Smith wrote:
front page of NY Times just featured this paper
http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf
which is hilarious! Just when you thought you'd seen the ultimate in human stupidity...