-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > David Shaw wrote: >> For paper to last 100 years is not even vaguely impressive. Paper >> regularly lasts many hundreds of years even under less than optimal >> conditions. > > All seems rather academic to me as I would expect the current encryption > algorithms to be rendered useless by then. Computing machines do have physical limits, though. Just because the last few decades have shown an exponential growth in computing power doesn't mean the next few will. Perhaps RSA and DSA/El-Gamal keys will be breakable, maybe they won't.
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