Re: Stop using PDFs ?
> A cert is nothing but a ASCII text document of a very specific format.
there must have been some serious changes to the ASN.1 DER encoding, because last time I checked it was very much so a binary format, storing the RSA parameters as big-endian integers, etc.
> Also, let's not use the term "calculate" when we refer to this stunt Google pulled off. Anything that uses 6500 years of compute time sounds a lot more like trial & error to me...
if it was brute force, it wouldn't take 6500 CPU-years to compute, it would take good few orders of magnitude more - over a million times more to be exact
Biting the hand that feeds IT
