Paul Rubin schrieb:
Wasn't there a default 40-bit version that was ok (weak), but you had to declare yourself US resident to download 128-bit support?
That was years ago. The regulations changed since then, so they all have 128 bits now.
Perhaps the NSA has found a way to handle 128bit in the meantime. But this is unlikely because there is no export regulation to ban 512bit as far as I know :)
Apparently factorization based crypto is on the way out anyhow (as an article in Scientific American is reported to claim).
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&articleID=000479CD-F58C-11BE-AD0683414B7F0000&ref=rdf
-can't wait to get my quantum computer-ly yrs- Robin Becker -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
