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...
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