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I agree. It would be nice if the line:

> RSA 2048: yellow recommended to change

was followed by at least some link that explains why is it unsafe. Could anyone elaborate further?

UPDATE: there is now a link up in this thread, from the user fjarlq, which points to an NSA recommendation from 2015. The recommendation seems to be related to the need of having a "quantum computing resistant" key. But with quantum computing still in its infancy, how do we know which types of keys would be adequate?



Many theoretical aspects of quantum computing are well-understood, just as a lot of early work on computational complexity etc. predates the existence of (nonhuman) computers.


I think we don't know which one will be adequate but we do know that RSA won't be, hence the recommendation.




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