SSH Tunneling still relevant?

[Traitor4000]

If by obfuscation you mean white-box cryptography, i don't know if this is the appropriate solution since obfuscation is meant to hide the decryption key even from the legitimate user.

We are just tossing ideas around nothing is set in stone.

[ch3244]

I have my doubts RSA 1024 has been 'cracked.' This would involve the NSA either be in possession of a quantum computer implementing Shor's algorithm or they have a new way to determine primality. Both these things seem unlikely as they would be quite big advances in mathematics and computer science.

With current methods I believe it requires terabytes of RAM and a long time to implement the General Number Field Sieve on RSA 1024. Even if the NSA could crack it, it would be reserved for people worth doing so on.

The bigger worry and something that is much more likely is that they have backdoors or helped to implement insecure cryptos in commonly used programs.

If you really feel it's a problem use RSA 4096.