On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Randall Webmail <rv...@insightbb.com> wrote:
> I suppose we've all seen the "proofs" that brute-forcing PGP would take a > supercomputer > the size of the planet longer than the age of the universe to accomplish. Was > the math > faulty in those proofs, or is it true, and the NSA is just empire-building? The two are not mutually exclusive. The math might be just fine and brute force spectacularly impractical, but some other attack possible. With an NSA sort of budget, things like a large version of Shamir et al's TWIRL machine are feasible. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
