begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Sat, May 26, 2007 at 09:18:03AM -0700: > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 7:24 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > > > With computing power nominally increasing at an exponetial rate, it's not > > a matter of "can they crack it"... it's a matter of when, and how > > much it will cost them to do so. > > There are things you never want them to know and things you don't want > them to know until ... something. Arabic phone calls en claire that didn't > get translated until September 12th might as well have been in uncrackable > cyphers.
Yup! > And for people like us (or maybe just me), there's the ineffible > satisfaction of encrypting innocent communications just to waste their > time. And, of course, my taxes. Don't think of it as wasting taxes. Think of it as a sort of welfare for math majors -- otherwise we'd have to lock up those people in an institution and make 'em teach classes. You're doing it for the greater good. -- You'll be socially responsible in spite of your best efforts otherwise. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
