On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:54:28AM -0600, Larry Paul wrote:
> What little mind I have left has been boggled beyond belief. Since there
> are roughly 10^32 (1 with 32 zeroes behind it) atoms in the universe (give
> or take a few quatrillion) and if EACH was a supercomputer ...
there are quite a few other calculations based on the (known) laws of
physics, and all show that it is imposible to brute force such big keys
(afaik our sun has not the power to serve a computer beeing able to
brute-force 2048bits RSA, well, i have to look this up in Applied Crypto if
anybody cares :)
Of course this does not mean that faster methods can be available. But the
speed of computers is here totally irrelevant.
Greetings
Bernd
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