Strangely enough,, I recently sat though the Verisign PKI course.. and they told us that the poms were the first to come up with it as well, so noone is making a secret of it.
regards Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daRcmaTTeR Sent: Saturday, 1 June 2002 4:46 AM To: Newbie List Subject: Re: [newbie] NSA / PGP On Fri, 31 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: > -----pgpenvelope processed message > > 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, that is some awesome information. thanks for the link. So, it was the Brits who did it first? -- Mark a.k.a. daRcmaTTeR ------------------ "If your wife told you NOT to do it there's probably a real good reason!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTERED LINUX USER #186492 Penguinized since 1997
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