On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 08:35 -0800, Bryan Murdock wrote: > Can the NSA even brute force it? I read in the IEEE Spectrum a while > back that their computers are no better than ours at factoring large > numbers. :-)
Well according to Dan Brown's novel "Digital Fortress," the NSA has a special computer that can crack all our public key encryption in seconds. Oh wait. You mean Dan Brown writes fiction? Hmm. Next thing you know I'll be finding out the "Da Vinci" code is also made up stuff. Hmm. Michael > > Bryan > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
