[Resource Topic] 2011/254: Using the Cloud to Determine Key Strengths

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Title:
Using the Cloud to Determine Key Strengths

Authors: T. Kleinjung, A. K. Lenstra, D. Page, N. P. Smart

Abstract:

We develop a new methodology to assess cryptographic key strength using cloud computing, by calculating the true economic cost of (symmetric- or private-) key retrieval for the most common cryptographic primitives. Although the present paper gives the current costs, more importantly it provides the tools and infrastructure to derive new data points at any time in the future, while allowing for improvements such as of new algorithmic approaches. Over time the resulting data points will provide valuable insight in the selection of cryptographic key sizes.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/254

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