Thanks to Peter Koch for pointing these articles out. -- Heise, a German language online news medium, published an article titled "DNSSEC with too short RSA keys". <http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/DNSSEC-mit-zu-kurzen-RSA-Schluesseln -2449480.html> The article refers to a paper by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange about advances in factorization by massively parallel hardware operation <http://cr.yp.to/factorization/batchnfs-20141109.pdf>. It appears that the article might go far beyond the substance or even the claims in the paper. There was a previous note at <http://www.golem.de/news/verschluesselung-parallele-angriffe-auf-rsa-schlue ssel-mit-1-024-bit-1411-110435.html>, much less alarmist. Some serious review of the paper to evaluate the claims and conclusions would be helpful. -Peter PS: an obviously, if RSA1024 was unusable for DNSSEC, there are other uses ..