Reply to post: Two questions:

So what's the internet community doing about the NSA cracking VPN, HTTPS encryption?

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Two questions:

Why move to 2048-bit when the NSA itself recommends 3072-bit? Why no effort to stop reusing primes so much, since that's apparently part of the attack? I get that increasing the length is probably easier, but wouldn't it be sensible to do both?

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