Encryption: 1024 bits are not enough / TechWorld.com, 25 May 2007
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=8940
Jeremy Kirk
"The strength of the encryption used now to protect banking and e-commerce transactions on many Web sites may not be effective in as few as five years, a cryptography expert has warned after a new distributing key-cracking achievement.
Arjen Lenstra, a cryptology professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, said the distributed computation project, conducted over 11 months, achieved the equivalent in difficulty of cracking a 700-bit RSA encryption key, so it doesn't mean transactions are at risk - yet."