100 hours to break a 1024 bit key

OpenSSL vulnerability discovered...

techie paper (a lot of math I dont understand tbh)

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~valeria/research/publications/DATE10RSA.pdf
(PDF)

Non-techy report from theregister:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/severe_openssl_vulnerability/

By the Author's own admission its not very threatening at this stage (more for blu-ray players than for servers) but as we've seen in the past, all it takes is one chink in the armour and pretty soon there's research all over the place getting farther and farther along at a much more accelerated pace.