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To: [email protected]
Subject: the rest of the key
From: Brian D Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 09:05:20 -0800
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 I was just wondering.... If the NSA could get it's hands on half
(40) of any particular clipper key, wouldn't that just leave 2^40
to compute? Even with brute force, it's trivial  even next to DES.


Brian Williams
Extropian
Cypherpatriot

"Cryptocosmology: Sufficently advanced comunication is
                  indistinguishable from noise." --Steve Witham

 "Have you ever had your phones tapped by the government? YOU WILL
  and the company that'll bring it to you....  AT&T" --James Speth
 
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