-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 8:36 pm, shane wrote:
> i doubt that. it is simply a matter of raw math. > http://senderek.de/security/secret-key.protection.html > > in short if they had a super computer than can only be imagined today > (not built) it would take hundreds of years to guess a key. Ah, but they don't use (general purpose) supercomputers. They use _very_ specialised computers; I read somewhere that the NSA has its own chip fabrication plant ... Your code cracker will likely be a PCI card inside a common-or-garden PC, not a black box performing the breaststroke in a lake of liquid nitrogen. (And the standard PC could be running Linux ;) And it may well use algorithms nobody in the 'free world' knows about. There's a known precedent: one of the most astonishing things I've read for ages is that the RSA algorithm was invented in secret about a decade before it was 'invented in public': http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.04/crypto_pr.html Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE899MbCv59vFiSU4YRAjH9AKC/YIHa68Sf1Mmbmnq2mPbsAiNzYwCeMMgm 9Sva6r7nvP4BiEsoQTeGV6g= =Da10 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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