Using supercomputers to break interesting ciphers

2001-09-01 Thread Tim May
On Saturday, September 1, 2001, at 01:53 PM, Faustine wrote: Tim Wrote: On Friday, August 31, 2001, at 11:43 AM, Faustine wrote: Consistent with your misconception about big computers being useful for brute-force cryptanalyis, I never said that and you know it. Nice troll, though. You

Re: Using supercomputers to break interesting ciphers

2001-09-01 Thread Faustine
Faustine wrote: Tim wrote: (snip) You are now backpedaling furiously away from your common to newbies claim that fast computers might be used to break ciphers. Here's a chunk of dialog from an August 8 post of yours: (comments after are from Tim) Except when was the last time you heard of a