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by tptacek 294 days ago
I don't understand the latter assertion. What's so special about RSA getting compromised?
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They're a world-class security organization. If a nation-state actor can get access to their most important keys the hard way, then a nation-state actor has a decent shot at compromising any private key on the planet, if they're willing to put enough money into it.
They were just an enterprise software company. People have weird ideas of what RSA was. They bought the name RSA.
They're a large, trusted enterprise software company specializing in security. I'm very comfortable using them as a heuristic for the most secure that a regularly-used private key can possibly be.
I think you need to adjust your priors on the capabilities of enterprise security companies. I don't think you will find many practitioners that would rank RSA Security in "the most secure that a regularly-used private key can be".