>It is not impossible at all. Merely improbable. Even with current >techniques. So improbable because ( 2^128 - 1 ) = >340282366920938463463374607431768211455 is a staggeringly large number. Even >Mathematica takes a pause to factor a number that has prime factors in that >scale. But it can be done. Like landing on the moon.
No, it cannot; it is even *theoretically* impossible to brute force a password of that length. The universe is just not big enough. When 56 bits keys were introduced they were, perhaps, merely infeasible to crack; but it was known that it was theoretically possible within 10-20 years, hence the design lifetime of DES. (Didn't it expire in the 80s or early 90s?) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
