Multiple issues in GPG documentation

Jacob Bachmeyer jcb62281 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 15 04:57:16 CEST 2025


On 9/13/25 21:55, Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users wrote:
> [...]
>
> RSA-2048 is under much greater risk from cloud computing and the 
> general number field sieve than it is from quantum computing.
>
> (Friends don't let friends generate new RSA-2048 keys, incidentally. 
> I'm not kidding about the cloud and GNFS risks.)

I never looked that far into GNFS.  Is it sufficiently amenable to 
parallelization to run on a GPU cluster?


-- Jacob




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